Jesse Ezell Blog

xFruits is a slick service that lets you transform RSS/OPML/etc. in all sorts of neat ways (Mobile, Web, PDF). Here is a sample, my feed turned into a mobile site

"FireStar recently filed a lawsuit (also in East Texas) against Red Hat for the use of the principle of Object Relational Mapping in Hibernate (developed by JBoss), a popular component of Java applications. Jim Farmer of immagic has confirmed that Sakai uses Hibernate and is, therefore, vulnerable to both direct and indirect infringement charges by FireStar. Farmer has also confirmed that while uPortal 2 does not use Hibernate, plans are underway to incorporate the component in uPortal 3. FireStar's patent claim goes beyond Hibernate, which is only one implementation among many of the Object Relational paradigm. Potentially any web framework that uses ORM, including those deployed in PHP, Ruby on Rails, or .NET, is vulnerable."

You had to know it was only a matter of time. Google has their Java->Javascript compiler and the Xamlon guys have their C#->ActionScript compiler. Soon, we will have a C#->Javascript compiler thanks to Nikhil Kothari (Script#):

http://www.google.com/analytics

"Every time my Mac crashes in the middle of the night I think of the stupid Apple commercial where they claim that Macs don't do that. It happens about once a week, sometimes every other day..."

"This must be a bug in IE’s filter implementation. So what I did next was to test the same image with opacity applied to it in IE 7, since they now claim they have native transparent PNG support. But… the results were exactly the same. Which makes you wonder if it’s not just the same filter as in IE 6 being applied under the hood.

Jeroen van den Bos has made the case for adding VS Express to Windows. [1]

http://www.newshutch.com/