SS8 was cancelled due to a combination of spectator and dust issues. Even bigger news, Marcus Gronholm retired about 6km from the service park (on a road section after SS8) due to a fuel pump problem. This leaves the top three (Martin, Rovanpera, and Solberg) within 30 seconds of one another. Tomorrow should be an […]

Posted on June 6th, 2003 by admin
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The 2003 Acropolis Rally started this morning, and it’s been quite competitive so far. Markko Martin has a slight lead over Peugeot’s Harri Rovanperra going into the day’s last stage, with Marcus Gronholm not far behind. Peugeot has never won this event, so their hopes are high that one of these guys can take the […]

Posted on June 6th, 2003 by admin
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Meh! Two steps forward, four steps back. I’m still (day number 4, maybe, I’ve lost count) trying to get a Turbine/Torque web application up and running with the Maven build tool. Here’s a short list of some of the difficulties I’m facing…. Torque (an OM layer for the database) has the capability to generate Java […]

Posted on June 5th, 2003 by admin
Filed under: Programming | Comments Off on The Long Slow Death of Apache

I’ve always been a KDE man. I’ve never really used GNOME, unless I absolutely had to (as some apps don’t port easy across desktops, due to the different engines used by the desktops — QT for KDE, and the GTK for GNOME). But then I read this interview yesterday with one of the Ximian developers […]

Posted on June 4th, 2003 by admin
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Quite a busy day at work. We went from pretty casually doing design work for the next iteration of the product, to madly rushing to ramp up to do development work. Yeesh. Just a bried overview of today’s fun: * Finish design work on the application’s search engine. * Setup a new instance of the […]

Posted on June 3rd, 2003 by admin
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Had a bit of poopy day yesterday…an old consulting project reared its ugly head, and I’ve had to say no, sorry, I can’t help you right now. There aren’t enough hours in my day. I was feeling pretty crummy, but something pretty amazing happened. We had dinner with the in-laws, then went home. I was […]

Posted on June 3rd, 2003 by admin
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So…here’s a lively discussion about the preview release of Java 1.5 (Tiger). There are many new features, some interesting and useful, and others that some may call syntaxtic sugar. I found the whole discussion interesting because Java is fast becoming M$ bastard brother. Many in the open source community are leary of the langauge, because […]

Posted on June 1st, 2003 by admin
Filed under: Programming | Comments Off on Java This