The Random Musings

While catching up on things that had transpired during my week on vacation, I happened upon Miguel’s posting about setting up IM for Google. I had missed the Google Talk announcement, so was disappointed to see that there was no Linux client available.
Anyway, after a brief perusal of the 3rd party IM client instructions, [...]

Day 5:
We took a visit to a fort just over the river on a small island in Montreal. It shares the same exit as the Six flags theme park. The boys got to see a recreation of a scottish unit performing a musket loading/firing exercise.

Later on I got to make my own musket [...]

The unique hotel in Quebec 

Day 1:
We arrived on Saturday around 12:30, which meant that We left Connecticut at 3:55 AM!!! The boys did not wake up till we hit I87 and had gone through most of the congested spots. At one spot in New York state, approximately 2.5 hours from the Canadian border, we stopped for breakfast [...]

ServiceMix 1.0 Release
An open source ESB incorporating JBI (JSR 208) basics. One thing that I found enlightening was that in this release one of the new features was support for RSS feed processing. This should allow data to be streamed into the ESB, and hopefully provide a way for the data to be [...]

EclipseXUL initial code submitted !
I took a look at the Eclipse WTP project last night and posted a quick report to people in the Novell ExteNd team that are developing some related functionality under Eclipse of their own. One of my suggestions was that we should look at contributing to the project, and using [...]

EclipseXUL initial code submitted !
I took a look at the Eclipse WTP project last night and posted a quick report to people in the Novell ExteNd team that are developing some related functionality under Eclipse of their own. One of my suggestions was that we should look at contributing to the project, and using [...]

Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog – New Identity Incubation Project at Apache
Kim has detailed about the efforts of Hans Granqvist of Verisign to introduce an Identity project into Apache, which will have some overlap with their WSS4j project. the project will be called TSIK (Trust Services Integration Toolkit)
Kim placed a quote from Hans that read [...]

I left the Shelton, CT office on Friday @ 4:50 PM enthusiastic that since I had not heard any news from the garage where my truck was being fixed, that my Montreal vacation would be starting shortly . . . . how wrong was I
I arrived at the garage @ 5:25 PM only [...]

I received, along with other open source community members, a link to the “Linux and training Workshop” by Chris Schlaeger, VP of engineering at SuSE. While listening I immediately started picking up on some small gems that he was providing. One of which I had read on the Novell internal Linux newsgroup about [...]