Picture of Toni and me at Devoxx, talking about Lookup as an OSGi service registry, which is available from Kenai (here): More pics here: http://picasaweb.google.com/JavaPolis.com/Devoxx2009

DSCN5891 On 17 October 2009, Saint Timothy's Episcopal Church ("St. Tim's") in Mountain View, California held a fund raising formal dinner and auction called "A Feast of All Things Chocolate" to benefit Santa Maria Urban Ministry or SMUM. Jennifer Ezell of St. Tim's was the head chef and clearly had ...

Whenever you are feeling deprived,?? consider the technological advantages we enjoy today and count your many blessings! Thanks to the Lighter Side of Technology page on ITWorldCanada.com for this gem. Technorati Tags: ,

VirtualBox 3.0.8 has been released for all platforms. 3.0.8 is a maintenance release and contains quite a few performance and stability improvements. For a list of the changes in this release, please take a look at the VirtualBox Changelog. It's early yet but my testing of multi-cpu Solaris guests is ...

VirtualBox 3.0.12 has been released for all platforms. 3.0.12 is a maintenance release. Changes in VirtualBox 3.0.12 include VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only) VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels ...

Social Media has already taken off at SC09! Purdue University has developed a new Twitter analytics tool called need4feed.com that does an amazing job of aggregating all the #SC09 tweets into one place. Check it out at need4feed.com

I read a fair amount of blogs, and I listen to a fair amount of podcasts. In fact, one of the reasons why I???m walking to work now instead of driving is so that my commute will remain reasonably long, and hence I???ll continue to have enough time to listen to podcasts! And I spend a good-sized chunk ...

Apple gain success on Appstore, which bring a new way to earn money for company and developer. Nowaday, there come up few store to follow similiar way Apple did. Here I just try to gather all kinds of application store or market link together for reference: Apple's Appstore The iPhone Developer Program ...

More signs of the crumbling Apple iPhone empire: Rogue Amoeba's Paul Kafasis said he is throwing in the towel on iPhone app development. See: No more iPhone app development Here's a quote: "Rogue Amoeba no longer has any plans for additional iPhone applications, and updates to our existing iPhone applications ...

HSC Electronic Supply of Santa Clara, California is geek heaven. The better-known Fry's Electronics is a pale shadow in comparison (Fry's sells steam irons and manila folders as well as motherboards). According to the New York Times in their 4 February 2009 article "A Haven for Spare Parts Lives On ...