The Random Musings

Yesterday I took my first steps toward setting up a development environment to work on Kmail.  Will Stephenson, an engineer at SuSE provided a lot of insight and support through the #kontact IRC channel.  My motivation is to help with Groupwise support in Kmail, and the other kontact subprojects like korganizer and kaddressbook.
Anyway, Will provided [...]

In a previous post I expained that I was moving from Bloglines to Newsgator. Well, a few days on and I could not be happier. The UI differences have been shrugged aside and I am actually starting to reap the benefits from the Newsgator implementation.
Separate Nav and Body Panes: I thought this would [...]

On Sunday the Woodbridge Elite soccer team played and I was actually able to play.  Anyway, we lost 4-0 but the amazing thing was that I managed to survive the outing with no injuries!!!
I walked off the pitch, a little disappointed, but quite relieved that I was tired but had no joint pains or muscle [...]

A while ago, I decided that the convenience of having my RSS feed aggregator located as a web service would allow me the flexibility of accessing it from any of my work, home or friends computers.  I started with Bloglines, since they provided a range of services that proved potentially useful and productive.
The idea of [...]

I just noticed that I was forgetful in not providing the conclusion to my effort to add Apache Maven to the Identity Abstraction and Role Calculator portions of the bandit project.  Unfortunately it never happened.
Since the components were being added to the SuSE build system, for Java projects that means using a components Ant build [...]

I just got word from my anti-spam comment moderator, sxore.com, that as well as using the Sxip homesite authentication mechanism, you can now use OpenID, i-name or InfoCard.  This makes it easier for me to remember the credentials to use when I logon, and more importantly no longer need to remember what my homesite was [...]

Just when I thought it was safe to venture into the blogging waters, I discovered that there were two comments that required moderating.  Signing on to sxore.com was a pain because I forgot what the homesite was and now I see that they allow OpenID and other identity URL’s (oh sooo confusing).
Anyway, I digress.  I [...]

Don’t ask me how, but I managed to happen upon a blog post by Jarosław “sztywny” Rzeszótko, where he posed some questions to high profile programmers like James Gosling, Linus Torvalds, Dave Thomas, Bjarne Stroustrup to name a few.  The questions range from “How did you learn programming”, to “What are your favourite music bands/performers/compositors?”.  [...]