P@ SunglassesPatrick Chanezon's Sun external WeblogLink: Thought leaders or out of touch with the masses- February 23, 2005 Thought leaders or out of touch with the masses: " (Via Don Park's Daily Habit.) Food for thought.http://blogs.sun.com/pat/entry/link_thought_leaders_or_out Link: Jon Stewart on bloggers- February 23, 2005 Hilarious! Jon Stewart on bloggers: "Jon Stewart offers his own spin on the blogging phenomenon." (Via CNET News.com - Front Door.)http://blogs.sun.com/pat/entry/link_jon_stewart_on_bloggers TextDrive hosting does not like java user-agents- February 23, 2005 The details are in my post to the ROME dev mailing list: it seems like mod_security, as configured at the TextDrive ISP refuses http get with a user-agent containing the string "java"!How how should java people interpret that I guess as a compliment: if mod_security forbids java in the user-agent, it means that even spammers and rogue spiders ended up dumping Perl for their nasty http business to use java instead: java everywhere;-) After Ivan Ristic's knowledgeable comment, I changed the...http://blogs.sun.com/pat/entry/mod_security_does_not_like Tagsurf: a clever use of the tagging concept- February 10, 2005 Through Russel Beattie, Tagsurf: Tagged Hyperforum I tried Tagsurf, a new app leveraging tagging, bookmarklets and RSS in an interesting way. It's the product of a confrontational chat session between Russel Beattie and Anthony Eden. I'm not surprised the combination worked so well: I've always considered Russ as a fantastic product manager, who needs a perfect geek like Anthony to make his ideas real, like the Andreesen-Bina combo who made Mosaic. Tagsurf allows you to comment on links using a.http://blogs.sun.com/pat/entry/tagsurf_a_clever_use_of My brother joins Nomura in London- February 8, 2005 Found the press release while egosurfing:-) Nomura announced today that it is continuing its drive to build its Equity Derivatives team, as it confirmed a further 24 people appointed to the business in the past four months. The appointments include four new directors: Alain Chanezon, Florian Hillen, Garry Topp and Shilpa Amin. He's the second french trader I know (and I know only 3) who goes to London: Londons seems to be for bankers what Silicon Valley is for geeks. Congratulations Alain, and..http://blogs.sun.com/pat/entry/my_brother_joins_nomura_in Podcast version of your feed- February 1, 2005 I heard about Feedpod today and think it is a very clever idea: it is a Text-To-Speech RSSATOM Newsfeed reader. I don't care too much about the client side. James Gosling had added Text-To-Speech to his JNN client side aggregator many months ago but after experiencing it for a few hours it was only an annoying feature. What makes this project interesting is on the server side: "You can use FeedPod on your site to offer a PodCast of your blog". I haven't tried it yet but this is a killer...http://blogs.sun.com/pat/entry/podcast_version_of_your_feed Powered by ROME badge!- February 1, 2005 Mark Woodman created a cool Powered by ROME badge. After the T-shirt, the badge was sorely missing;-)It took only 3 days before we had a first site using it: Robert "kebernet" Cooper in his excellent Feedpod java.net project.http://blogs.sun.com/pat/entry/powered_by_rome_badge1 ROME-Feedparser collaboration- February 1, 2005 Dave Johnson submitted our joint proposal to JavaOne yesterday: I hope it will be accepted. With Kevin, Dave, Alejandro and I presenting all you can do with feeds in java, using ROME and Feedparser, I think it will be one of the hottest sessions this year! It seems the collaboration between our projects may begin at the feed network API level. Kevin Burton and Nick Lothian started an interesting thread in java-syndication about this. It seems like our libraries may have many complementary...http://blogs.sun.com/pat/entry/rome_feedparser_collaboration Link: Making CAPTCHAs Even Harder With 3-D Models- February 1, 2005 Making CAPTCHAs Even Harder With 3-D Models provides a new interesting approach to generating CAPTCHAs ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"), leveraging human's ability to evaluate a 3D scene from a 2D representation. I hope Marc-Antoine Garrigue will implement that method soon in his wonderful JCaptcha library. Dave Johnson has integrated Marc-Antoine's JCaptcha based Roller comment authenticator plugin in Roller 1.0 RC2. It is not deployed on...http://blogs.sun.com/pat/entry/link_making_captchas_even_harder |