10.4.3
As the rumors said 10.4.3 was released today, to summarise the news (according to Apple).
The 10.4.3 Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.
It includes fixes for:
AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support disc recording when creating and burning media .Mac sync services Spotlight indexing and searching Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit Converter Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applications Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update compatibility with third party applications and devices previous standalone security updates
Available now in update manager
IBM releases WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
IBM today released a product called WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (or WAS CE for short)
The product is based on GlueCode (which where acquired by IBM this summer), and technically it’s based on Apacher Geronimo
According to the IBM marketing fuzz
“WAS CE features a small footprint, making it easier to download and manage. Based on core open source technology from the J2EE-certified Apache Geronimo application server, WAS CE and related subscription support provide a flexible and affordable alternative to traditional commercial software offerings and can help customers begin to deploy a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).”
The initiative seems nice, but not a really surprising move considering IBM’s flirting with the Open Source Movement lately.
I guess i have to put it on my “to test”-list. Hopefully the quite good admin console from WAS has made it over.
Bruce Tate and his monkey..
Bruce Tate made a post about how he teaches his monkey to develop..
I agree to some extent, but Im not totally convinced.. Although the story is quite entertaining..
MySQL 5.0
MySQL has release version 5.0 of their RDB today, and I must say finding what’s new wasn’t the easiest task around. The whitepaper kicks you straight to a registration page…
Has MySQL forgotten their roots?
I wonder how long it will be until the Hibernate-project has implemented support for 5.0, I am guessing just a couple of days.
10 most common answers from a developer
The following is quite old by now, but still get its point through…
10. ‘That’s weird…’
9. ‘It’s never done that before.’
8. ‘It worked yesterday.’
7. ‘You must have the wrong version.’
6. ‘It works, but it hasn’t been tested.’
5. ‘Somebody must have changed my code.’
4. ‘Did you check for a virus?’
3. ‘Where were you when the program blew up?’
2. ‘Why do you want to do it that way?’
And finally…
1. ‘I thought I fixed that.’
Apache Beehive 1.0
Apache Beehive released 1.0 today, for those of you not familiar with Beehive go ahead and take a look, interesting stuff…
We are pleased to announce the v1.0 release of Apache Beehive! This release provides the following major features: NetUI (Page Flow + JSP tag library) Controls framework System controls for accessing JDBC, JMS, and EJB resources Many bug fixes Significantly enhanced documentation Additional samples
Binary and source distributions can be downloaded via an Apache mirror from: http://beehive.apache.org/releases/release-1.0.cgi Documentation for v1.0 is here
A few notes about this release:
WSM and the web service control are not included as WSM has not passed the JSR 181 TCK yet. Both will be available in a subsequent release. v1.0 does not include XMLBeans due to licensing issues with the JSR 173 API JAR; however, XMLBeans can still be used with Beehive and is available from http://xmlbeans.apache.org Changes in v1.0 from v1.0m1 can be found here: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10570&fixfor=12310123 Thanks to everyone who submitted bug reports, patches, testing, and feedback. All of these contributed significantly to this release. Please send comments / questions about this release to user@beehive.apache.org and development-related issues to dev@beehive.apache.org Bugs found in 1.0 should be filed in JIRA at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEEHIVE This version was built at SVN change 291405.
We welcome your feedback. On to v.next… The Beehive Team