What if an application used an irc channel as a (Java)Spaces implementation mechanism? That would be cool. Persistence could be manged by an IRC bot running on the server (or, indeed, any node) that logged all the messages.

Encryption? Any standard mechanism (RSA, blowfish etc) plus base64 encoding should take care of that.

Wonder if anyone’s implemented this idea yet?

My latest gift to my iPod: http://www.shure.com/earphones/eseries_e3c.asp.

Had to drag myself away from the 60Gb iPod Photo while I was at the Apple store buying the headphones.

(It could have been much worse. They could have had the E5C’s in stock. Ouch!)

http://www.khapre.org/blog/index.aspx?pageID=/blog/2004/08/agile-and-iterative-software_31.

As found here: http://pilchardfriendly.blogspot.com/2004/11/support.html.

Which is only one of the many useful and entertaining blogs at http://blogs.thoughtworks.com.

1 Terabyte.

On your desk.

And at $1 per Gb, not bad value considering.

(Oh, if that’s not enough they also offer a 1.6Tb version.)

Selenium. Open source web application automated testing. This is going to be big.

http://w3future.com/html/beyondJS/

Curried functions, Number.times(), Array.foreach(), Template methods and a whole bunch of other STL/Smalltalk/Haskell craziness. In javascript. Mmm, javascript….

I think Amazon said it best (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/sdk/main.html?p=APIReference/RESTRequestsArticle):

REST allows you to make calls to AWS by passing parameter keys and values in a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). AWS returns its response in XML (Extensible Markup Language) format. You can experiment with AWS requests and responses using nothing more than a Web browser that is capable of displaying XML documents. Simply enter the REST URL into the browser’s address bar, and the browser displays the raw XML response.

Can you test your SOAP service with nothing more than a web browser?

Meerkat RSS feed – the javascript flavour is very cool.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/rss/2000/05/09/meerkat_api.html

Awesome use of javascript bookmarklets to search for books from amazon in your local library.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html

Its not a DecelerationHelper its a Brake.

Credit to Dan North and Mike Roberts for the conversation about how to rename Helper/Manager type classes to something more concrete. What ability or thing would the application lose if the Helper was deleted?

Cowboyd. Future Famous Author:

“So you’re going to give this jacket to me.”

“Yes yes. I gift. To you.”

“What do you want?” I said.

“Want? I want to give you a litle gift.”

“What do you want?” I repeated.

He did not respond at once, instead readying his proposal since it was obvious that was all I was waiting for. Then he said slowly “I give you a little geeft, you give me a little geeft.”

Finally. Christ it took this guy long enough to admit that it was at least some sort of transaction he was proposing. In retrospect I wonder if he was covering his ass in case I turned out to be part of the ultra-elite squad of undercover cops that hangs around in parking lots –Hatchling to nest. Hatchling to nest. Operation “check email and then fart around in the parking lot” was a raging success.