The Random Musings

Just found this post which explains the code submission by Victor grey for the ruby on rails framework to provide single sign on capabilities to applications utilizing the framework.
I listened to a web presentation, by Burton the other day, and the question that I was not able to pose to the panel was about the [...]

In a First, Camera Catches Live Giant Squid
I found this originally on Shelley Powers blog.
The Washington Post article talks about researchers suspending a digital camera 4,000 feet in the water, where the squid attacked the bait and took 4 hours and 13 minutes to get disentangled. During this time the researches managed to take [...]

I got this from a friend and thought it was worth sharing. The promotion part is particularly insightful.
Interview With An Honest Boss.

I managed to get hold of a set of episodes of a childhood series I used to watch when growing up back in England. The series was Joe 90 and was created by Gerry Anderson who also created the original Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet, to name but a few.
Joe 90 is about a 9 [...]

A project proposal has been put forward by Iona, Sybase and ObjectWeb for a top level SOA Tools Project (STP). If done correctly, this could be the seamless designer integration that would make working on Web services not only easy and seamless, but allow us (Novell) to contribute and influence the environment so that [...]

I just took about 20 minutes to listen to Dick Hardt for his Identity2.0 – OSCON Presentation. I would highly recommend taking the time to listen and watch this well made presentation. He does a good job of explaining what Identity 1.0 is, how it relates to real life, and what Identity 2.0 [...]

On Slashdot, there was a link to a company called AtomChip who have announced the “soon to be released” mega 6.8GHz laptop.
I especially like the solid state storage . . . no hard drive but 2TB of storage . . . . and 1TB RAM.
I am especially enthused that Linux is mentioned as one of [...]

I discovered an article on TestDriven.com about an integration server that sits on top of Subversion called Sin. Within the ExteNd team we are currently using luntbuild, but as noted in explanations on the Sin site, there are shortcomings with the base integration build server’s approach (i.e. everyone who checked in code since the [...]

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