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July 2003

Beggregator 0.2 available

July 31, 2003

The latest release of coolest newest slickest RSS news aggregator, Beggregator is out. The 0.2 release includes tons of new features and bug fixes. You have to check this out, even if you are happy with your current RSS reader. JIRA for tracking features and bugs for Beggregator @ http://jira.eugenebelyaev.com. Great job Eugene. Can’t wait [...]

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Good week for BEA Systems

July 30, 2003

Looks like a pretty good week for BEA Systems. The stock (NASDAQ: BEAS) is up a lot in the recent day and I caught a few decent press releases about Portal and JRockit. Saw this article about the eWeek Portal article. Also caught the JRockit JVM Benchmark on TSS. I know from personal experience that [...]

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public class HowToKeepYourJob extends OutSourcing {

July 29, 2003

My MSNBC News Alert starting flashing, and my Pavlovian response was to click the little red blinking icon in my system tray. The first article that caught my eye was titled ‘Outsourcing to usurp more U.S. jobs‘. A lot of us in the IT industry are dealing with this reality. Most of us work for [...]

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Reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser –

July 29, 2003

Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 has been released and here are some reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser. If you ask, as I did – ‘What’s the difference between Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla?’ The FAQ answers: Mozilla (Application Suite) is a complete suite of web related applications, such as a browser, a mail/news client, a [...]

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Sun proposes new Web services specs -

July 28, 2003

Just caught this article this article about Sun proposing a new Web services specs on CNET’s News.com. Looks like Sun, Oracle, Iona Technologies, Fujitsu Software and Arjuna Technologies will submit the specifications, the Web Services Composite Applications Framework (WS-CAF), to W3C or OASIS for acceptance. Never heard of WS-CAF before. To quote the article, “WS-CAF, [...]

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iPod: The Missing Manual

July 27, 2003

O’Reilly has just released iPod: The Missing Manual. Written by New York Times tech columnist J. D. Biersdorfer, this book is a collection of useful tips, tricks, and shortcuts. This book covers all iPod models for both Mac and Windows, including the new 15/30GB iPods. It is also a guide to iTunes, MusicMatch Jukebox Plus, [...]

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Tech Talk with Gregor Kiczales on Aspect Oriented Programming –

July 25, 2003

Found this on TSS — TSS is hosting a Tech Talk with Gregor Kiczales on Aspect Oriented Programming. Gregor lead the PARC team that developed AOP and AspectJ at Xerox. In this interview, Gregor looks at the history of AOP and the current challenges it faces moving forward. He discusses the meaning of crosscutting structure, [...]

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Goodbye FeedReader – Hello Beggregator: My new favorite aggregator –

July 24, 2003

I have used FeedReader as my default news/feed aggregator for a while now. FeedReader works just fine and is a pretty decent product. But I had to switch when I first discovered Beggregator. Beggregator is a great feed reader written in Java by Eugene Belyaev, President and CTO of JetBrains – the makers to the [...]

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BEA dev2dev Releases AOP System for WebLogic –

July 24, 2003

I saw this on Cedric’s blog first – BEA has released a WebLogic Aspect Framework that is based on AspectJ and is made of a set of predefined pointcuts that WebLogic users can simply reuse and write aspects for. You can download the framework at the dev2dev site I haven’t kept up with the AOP [...]

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Buy.com launches digital music service –

July 22, 2003

Just caught this on CNBC Squawk Box this morning — Buy.com launched a new digital music download service called BuyMusic.com. My first reaction was finally!! A solution for us non-MAC (i.e. non cool) people. Here are some basic facts about this new service. They will charge 79 cents per song vs. Apple’s 99 cents. The [...]

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