Shlrm.org Blag

Yep. I played with one in the store, and then I had to buy it. So there went most of my dollars. I’m too tired to really talk a whole lot about it right now, but needless to say if you’re reading this, you should buy me the android book from my favorite publisher so that I can build you a freaking awesome application.

My Way News – Where’d the bailout money go? Shhhh, it’s a secret.

Yeah, this is intolerable. The bailout itself was intolerable, but this is worse.

Were we not promised transparency and accountability?

Ajaxterm. A much, much easier to set up alternative to Anyterm.

I think Anyterm might be better at operating at lower bandwidths, but ajaxterm blows it away in terms of pure simplicity to set up. If you’ve got your own server, all it needs is some python, and then some apache magic. it starts up it’s own server, so theoretically you could run it standalone, but I’m not certain of the wisdom of this.

I’m mostly impressed with how simple it is to make it work. You can run it as root, and it’ll use “login” or you can run it as any user, and it’ll run “ssh localhost”. The running as a normal user is probably safer, but you have to have some sshd on the system.

I haven’t yet completed an entire application in ruby (well that’s not completly true) and I’m already off on something different.

Groovy feels like Ruby (the name even sounds like it!) but it’s closer to java than Ruby is. That’s good for me to rapidly do stuff. I’ve found that whilst I do enjoy learning new languages and new frameworks, when I want to get stuff done learning the stuff is somewhat of a hindrance for me. Groovy, and it’s framework Grails, shows promise to be the best of both worlds. I (possibly foolishly) purchased the PDF and the Paper copy of Programming Groovy from the Pragmatic Programmers.

I think that if I were to have a favorite publisher, it’d be them. They’re fairly new, about five years old, and located in Texas. I’ve spent more on books through them than just about anywhere else. And I haven’t been dissappointed yet. I also purchased Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. I’m hoping this will help me become more proficient in learning things. It also is somewhat of an interesting subject to me; mastering the mind to further enhance my ability to learn and become an expert in my field.

If you’re looking for some good programming books, I can highly reccomend The Pragmatic Bookstore.

Someone has put together a pile of patches from the OpenSuse repository to bring Xen into the newer kernels for the greater good of the internet. Well, they really did it for gentoo, but patches are patches!

This is great for hardware support and the newer features.

It’s unfortunate that citrix is working so hard to make Xen obsolete. The open source community flourishes when the Release Early, Release Often(tm) doctrine is followed. It keeps people interested, advertises of bugs fixed, and well, is just good publicity. Unless all your releases suck. Of course, Source Mage doesn’t really have “releases” in the typical sense. We release new stable grimoires about every other month now. I may have even had some small contribution to the most recent one. But it’s not a new ISO or something tangible for people. Which seems to be a requisite for some odd reason. I have yet to figure it out…

I should really get my OMFG Automation project up and running. Have been kind of burnt out the last couple days.