Finally catching up with my podcasts… Listening to the latest ColdFusion Weekly - wow. Peter and Matt kind of disappeared over the winter and I think everyone was wondering if they were ever going to come back.
The last two I’ve listened to have been great:
Version 3.05 – March 20, 2008 - [...]
This weekend I downloaded the Flex Builder Linux alpha, but ran into some issues and after digging around in the forums it was hinted that a new release would be out ’soon’. Soon turns out to be this morning. Alpha 3 was released today! I’m looking forward to getting home and [...]
So it’s coming down the pipeline at work that we may be doing some Flex… And of course I know Flexbuilder is built on Eclipse… and Eclipse is cross platform so there must be Linux support! Well, sorta. Seems there is a “Flex Builder Linux alpha 2″. So is that Flex [...]
I recently purchased a GPS (Garmin 2610) to tote around on motorcycle trips. If you have never tinkered with one - it is VERY cool. Unfortunately the MapSource software that comes with it requires Windows… Ugh.
I’ve run VMWare and QEMU on my Ubuntu box before. VMWare was very nice but a [...]
March 27, 2008 – 11:52 am
Dan Wilson interviews Vince Bonfanti about the recent BlueDragon open-source announcement.
This caught my eye:
We’re also investigating the possibility of creating a free VMWare appliance containing the full software stack including the Linux operating system, MySQL, JBoss or Tomcat, and BlueDragon.
I blogged about doing this almost a year ago… but unfortunately it wasn’t easily doable [...]
March 24, 2008 – 10:09 am
Awhile ago I blogged about Pulse - an Eclipse management tool. Last week they released version 2 with the following new features:
Management of workspace settings and project sets
Ability to share and manage software available on private update sites ($)
Significantly larger software catalog
Improvements in the resolution of software configurations
Support for NTLM v2 style proxy servers
They [...]
I wanted to post a follow up after my ColdFusion Meetup Ant presentation, especially for those who couldn’t attend. In addition to the example files and Powerpoint slides included in the ZIP download I have bundled all the ‘extra’ files that don’t come with Ant by default… Files to provide additional Ant tasks [...]
Well - it’s 6:00pm but unfortunately I can’t get on the CFMeetup Connect site. Charlie mentioned he had a busy schedule today so I imagine he’s running late or possibly had some technical difficulties… I’m going to stick around for 30 minutes or so because I don’t have anything else to [...]