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September 30, 2002

Perl 5.8.0 threading

perl.com covers threading under the recently-released Perl 5.8.0, the first release with a stable threads implementation.

Posted by Brian at 5:45 PM |

Log::Log4Perl

Log::Log4Perl is a port of the very popular log4j Java logging package for logging debugging and error messages from applications.

Posted by Brian at 5:45 PM |

Embedding Web Servers

Embedding Web Servers from perl.com discussing (you guessed it) embedding a web server inside your application to provide management, data access, or other functionality.

Posted by Brian at 5:44 PM |

The Fusion of Perl and Oracle

The Fusion of Perl and Oracle is an article from the authors of the new O'Reilly book "Perl for Oracle DBA's".

Posted by Brian at 5:40 PM |

FBI Forensics Handbook

The FBI has their Handbook of Forensics Services, detailing the proper procedures for handling and collecting evidence, online for public viewing.

Posted by Brian at 1:53 PM |

UCI Bandwidth Policy

Details as to how the University of California, Irvine uses Packeteer to manage bandwidth on their residence hall network, and how they prioritize traffic.

Posted by Brian at 1:52 PM |

XPath Tutorial

tutorial on the XPath standard for querying XML documents.

Posted by Brian at 1:16 PM |

September 4, 2002

Interview with AppleScript Studio Lead

MacScripter.net interviews Tim Bumgarner, Lead engineer for Apple's AppleScript Studio development environment.

Posted by Brian at 11:59 AM |

Linux Virtual Server

SysAdmin Magazine write about Posted by Brian at 11:54 AM |

iBackup

MacDevCenter has an article about Apple's new iBackup software that's part of the .mac service, and how easy it is to backup your laptop frequently with it and an Airport connection.

Posted by Brian at 11:28 AM |

Woz Interview

Macworld.com has a great interview with Woz, aka Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer and all-around amazing guy.

Posted by Brian at 11:11 AM |

September 3, 2002

David Crane

David Crane, interviewed here created many of the most popular video games of the early 80's, including the monster hit "Pitfall!"

Posted by Brian at 1:05 AM |

September 2, 2002

Eclipse plugins list - a

Eclipse plugins list - a list of the many plugins available for the Eclipse open-source IDE. [Russell Beattie Notebook]

Posted by Brian at 10:45 PM |

Space Drives

Interesting article on O'Reilly's OnJava site about "space drives" or the concept of peer-to-peer file storage. One implementation is located at jworkspace.org

Posted by Brian at 6:15 PM |

Changing the Zen of Programming

Interesting article from another senior engineer at Sun entitled "Changing the Zen of Programming", talking about the shift from static, strongly-typed languages such as C, to more dynamic languages such as Java.

Posted by Brian at 1:09 PM |

Sun Chief Engineer interviewed

ZDNet has a two part interview with Rob Gingell, chief engineer at Sun Microsystems.

Posted by Brian at 1:05 PM |

Using Maven in Eclipse

Here is a greaet little presentation how to integrate the Maven documentation tool inside the Eclipse IDE.

Posted by Brian at 10:54 AM |

Animatrix

Animatrix is a series of 9 anime stories set in the world of The Matrix (the movie). There's a preview trailer available on the official site.

Posted by Brian at 10:39 AM |

New Eclipse IDE

A new version (2.0.1) of the Eclipse cross-platform development environment has been released. They still don't have an official MacOS X release, but you can download an unofficial build here (link to dmz file). Very cool.

Posted by Brian at 10:35 AM |

Camelbones

Camelbones is an Objective-C/Perl bridge which allows Cocoa applications to be written solely in Perl using Apple's standard development tools! It's a bit rough right now (you have to use native Cocoa data structures instead of Perl hashes/arrays/etc, but the functionality is there. Awesme! Now if we just had the same thing for Python.

Posted by Brian at 10:32 AM |

SecurityFocus discusses using Solaris' built

SecurityFocus discusses using Solaris' built in IPSEC support to encrypt traffic between two hosts. Can be very useful, and simpler to set up than a network-to-network IPSEC tunnel. [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix]

Posted by Brian at 10:15 AM |

September 1, 2002

Integrating Tomcat with apache

MacDevCenter talks about integrating the Tomcat servlet container with Apache on MacOS X. This is nice companion to their earlier article on building Tomcat for OS X as a standalone server.

Posted by Brian at 9:11 PM |

Application Builder Collection 1.2.3 is

Application Builder Collection 1.2.3 is a very nice set of Cocoa widgets, bundled into a reusable library. It's not free, but if you're doing serious application development for the Mac, it my save you a lot of time spent trying to write your own. [Studio Log]

Posted by Brian at 9:09 PM |

Hack your Jaguar boot screen.

Hack your Jaguar boot screen. shows you how to replace the (somewhat boring) grey apple on the 10.2 boot screen with your own custom art. It would be cooler to be able to do a full bootup screen image, but this is still cool.[Hack the Planet]

Posted by Brian at 9:03 PM |

Run Classic from a Disk Image

This article from MacOS X Hints, tells how to setup the Classic environment to run from a disk image under 10.2. This gives you the advantage of keeping your Classic applications and System software out of your 10.2 environment, preventing potential conflicts and generally making your system neater. Even if it's not that useful to you, it's still a pretty cool hack.

Posted by Brian at 8:59 PM |

has written an introduction

Apple Developer Connection has written an introduction to Mozilla's SOAP API. Part of me things it's incredibily cool that the Mozilla browser has a built-in web services API, and part of me remembers why I switched to Chimera (because Mozilla's too bloated with things like web services API's). [Sam Ruby]

Posted by Brian at 8:39 PM |

All Consuming is a terrific

All Consuming is a terrific web site (or application?) that lets you manage your book reading list and collection online, then include your "currently reading" list on your weblog automatically. It uses the Amazon web services API, and is written in Perl. Awesome. You can check out my "currently reading" box on my online journal site. [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]

Posted by Brian at 8:26 PM |

A test post via Radio

A test post via Radio Userland -- and now I'm testing editing.

Posted by Brian at 8:24 PM |