I was working on a spec in a wiki based editor yesterday and I noticed how uncomfortable I was working on this document in a browser. This is a long, fairly important document I was working on, and I was working on it in a tool designed for easy skipping from page to page, deigned [...]
I think the industry is completely underestimating the impact that iCloud and Apple’s cloud storage implementation is going to have. Applications synchronising data between devices is going to just work, without the user having to do anything to set it up. No accounts, no paying for separate services, nothing. Just buy the app in iTunes [...]
I’ve been writing some code that talks to Jackrabbit, and wanted to write some tests. Testing this sort of thing has traditionally been fairly difficult, because so much of your code is just calls into Jackrabbit. You’d need to create a lot of mock objects to mock the Jackrabbit side of the test, often leading [...]
Implementing an OSGi service using Maven isn’t hard, but there are a bunch of little pieces to pull together the first time through the process. Let’s create a SlingPostProcessor. A SlingPostProcessor is called by Sling just before POSTed changes are written into the repository. It provides a mechanism for validating what goes into the repository. [...]
CRX is a content repository built by Day Software, now Adobe. It’s a fascinating product, consisting of a few major pieces of software working together to provide a whole new way of building web apps. At its core is Jackrabbit, a Java content repository with no web interface. On top of JackRabbit is Sling, a [...]
An Android phone is a better GPS than most dedicated GPS devices. It gets maps over the network so the maps are always current Same with POIs Traffic information is available, and can lead to better routing (routing around a traffic jam, for example). Android has text to speech and great voice recognition. Better than [...]
I turned off the plugin that was providing the weekly rollup of tweets. It was making me want to unsubscribe from my own blog.
Microsoft and Skype? That's an odd coupling. Merge with Win 8 and make Windows a subscription model including Skype services? # eBay's fee now is 9% of the final price of an auction? Yikes. Time to start using Kijiji. # Playing with face recognition in AS3. It works! # Hard to believe Sony's most recent [...]
Even Sony, who owns a ton of content, can't bring out a download service in Canada with a decent library. http://t.co/0pX4Qvt # Wow, Sony took down the EQ servers too. "…we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down" # I feel bad for Sony. This is huge. [...]
Need a new fridge. So much cheaper to drive to the US to get one. http://t.co/2gaX5vA vs http://t.co/H0CEbKi Almost $1000 difference! # Easter 2011 passed without me eating a single Peep. # Thanks @Hunterdan77 for the kickass nachos! # Wow. http://t.co/L1c31kO # @travelmop Think it's got anything to do with free services vs paid? Might [...]