JOSX : Java on Mac OS XJava on Mac OS XA Technology Thanksgiving- November 25, 2004 Well, Thanksgiving is a time to express thanks to our loved ones; family and friends. I am indeed thankful for my wonderful wife and our beautiful daughter. What a blessing they have been! As I have been reflecting on the many ways I have been blessed, I cannot help but count my technology blessings. So here is my list: ⇒ The Mozilla Project: What can I say I have been using Netscape since the beginning of Web space. Netscape let the browser fly from its cage in 1998 and the...http://www.jroller.com/zopenx/entry/a_technolgy_thanksgiving Get Ready for the After Thanksgiving Sales- November 24, 2004 The Target Stores have come up with a cool solution to insure their loyal shoppers can make it to the store on time Friday. Depending on your bent, you can pick who calls to make you up. The wake up call operators include, Ice T, Cheech, Heidi Klum, Lord Vader, and a handful of other less notables. The wake up call site appears to be powered by Dynamo. Dynamo is a Java-based Web server application. What other technologies are being used The sign-up page looks like it incorporates a splash.http://www.jroller.com/zopenx/entry/get_ready_for_the_after Eclipse- Powered IDE for Laszlo- November 19, 2004 Announced on IBM&8216;s alphaWorks, the &8220;IDE for Laszlo is a technology preview of an Eclipse-based development environment for creating, editing, debugging, and testing applications based on the LZX declarative mark-up language.&8221; The RIA playing field is becoming quite interesting. Hopefully, this tool will make some web developers stand up an take notice fo what is going on at Lazlo Systems.http://www.jroller.com/zopenx/entry/ide_for_laszlo Here We Go Again!- November 19, 2004 Well, it looks like the &8220;M$ Machine&8221; is forecasting lawsuits in the future&8216;s of those choosing to implement Linux in their environment. Reuters reports that Steve Ballmer, M$ CEO and a.k.a. Monkey Boy, informed Asian governments that patent lawsuits may be on the horizon, saying; &8220;Someday, for all countries that are entering the WTO (World Trade Organization), somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property,..&8221; Reuter goes on.http://www.jroller.com/zopenx/entry/here_we_go_again Magnolia 2.0 Arrives- November 18, 2004 Obinary AG announced, on Monday, the release of Magnolia 2.0. Magnolia is built using Java and is touted as the first open-source content management system adhearing to the JSR 170 spec. The installation was a snap on my FreeBSD 4.10 server. However, I ran into a major roadblock when I attempted to edit the site using Safari. Since I am running a pre-release of Tiger, that might be the cause. Using my default browser, Mozilla, I was able to access and tweak the site as needed. Magnolia is.http://www.jroller.com/zopenx/entry/magnolia_2_0_arrives |