The Random Musings

Since I am fairly interested in the lightweight mechanisms that are popping up to allow me to solve the federated Identity problem, I have found, dare I say it, that my memory is not what it used to be. Thus when I actually try and remember the LID, or OpenID, or other Yadis compliant [...]

I had to get rid of my Jeep today. The final misery was the failing brakes and after discovering that it had no perceived value, I decided enough was enough and contacted a slavage yard to tow it away, to use for spare parts. I have to say that it is a bit [...]

I happened upon a link to a pattern site based on Enterprise application integrations.  The site, www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com, contains around 65 different patterns.  While the catalog of information is not entirely new, the presentation is excellent.  On the messaging side, not only do you get a clear expression of th patterns, but often links to sub-topics [...]

Today, was my first soccer game in the last 4 weeks, since I was sidelined with a partial tear of my hamstring.  I practiced with the team on Thrsday evening and was relieved that I did not pull anything or feel sore.  So, today I braved the wet weather to see about playing rather than [...]

A bit late, almost a week after . . . but better late than never IMHO.
Day 2 was much better than day 1.  Quick highlights were as follows

John Seely Brown gave a great presentation on collaboration in general.  He mentioned that students at his University had used 2nd Life to host a realtime [...]

The first day was comprised of a full day tutorial on “Managing Effective Virtual Teams”. There were people from the company that made the Web meeting software we were using called FacilitatePro. Unlike Web conferencing software like Live Meeting or WebEx, which provide ways for a presenter to push content out to participants, [...]

Free Radicals of Innovation
“Dr. Moira Gunn speaks about the Free Radicals of Innovation with Bob Newhart, the founder and CEO of the Innovation Center.”
This was a great insight into what we should be doing as far as innovative working practices and touching on the common phases that companies go through to spark innovation.
Less is More [...]

Something to followup on for my blog software, Wordpress.  A way to do theme stuff easily, I hope.
From Scott Granneman on the Open Source Weblog (read full article):
….. As with most DIY blogging software, creating a cool theme can be pretty hard. Now, however, there’s a really cool extension for WordPress called Canvas that promises [...]

As I continue to evangelize Maven to people, I thought I would start sharing any useful resources I find.  Eventually this will go on a Wiki page, but for now, here is a resource called “mvn registry” which you can use to search for artifacts in the Ibiblio public repository.
Another similar service can be found [...]

I have finally submitted my patch to the Bandit project committers, and also took a little time to provide a few words of explanation and introduction to Maven on their wiki.  They have decided to jump straight into this with no transition with a joint Maven and Ant build capability, which is just the way [...]