Sometimes the only good outcome of a post is to provoke somebody else to do one better. Seemed that I had caused exactly that.
About a week ago, I wrote about extending podcasting loop using Windows Scripting Host and IPod’s COM interface. In a comment, Scyro had written about disliking my approach and explained how to achieve the same effect using the smart playlists instead.
I have read his article and actually like his approach more than my own.
There are some people out there blogging about Weblogic. Here is the short list in hopes this article will make them a bit more noticeable:
Cid Danis. Weblogic Senior support engineer Unknown, but thorough in documenting test problems Vinny Carpenter, who is using Weblogic and blogs good links and articles News from BEA Dev2Dev. From the horse’s mouth so to speak (Link updated: Feb 2007) Moazam Rajas. He is actually SUN Senior support engineer, but if you run Weblogic - or any other J2EE servers - you will do well to read his articles All of the blogs above have RSS feeds.
Ever felt the need to extract some relations from the configuration or data and present it in a visual form nicely layed out. Ever given that up as too hard due to the hard problem of laying out the elements? If you did, then check out GraphViz.
While GraphViz by itself is not Java, it is cross-platform and is fairly easy to setup and invoke from Java. It is also open-source, if that is important to you.
So, you already use iPodder to listen to your ITConversations on the iPod with a 1-click ease.
All is well, except that it is starting to get difficult to remember which shows you already listened to and which ones are still new. You can of course go to iTunes, find the already-listened-to track and manually delete it or move it to the ‘archived’ section. But that is very much against 1-clickspirit.
When Win98 uptime was revealed to be never more than 49.7 days, Slashdot laughed. They could not imagine anybody actually wanting - or managing - to keep their Windows machine up for that long. I wonder if they would laugh now.
I wonder what other funny(WayBackMachine archive) Microsoft problems are going to bite us well after their discovery.
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