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{ Monthly Archives } May 2007

links for 2007-05-29

aQute | Code / Bnd
java -jar bnd-0.0.145.jar wrap -output out foo.jar will produce nice osgi bundle for any given jar file.
(tags: java OSGi tools)

Does REST need a service description language? // plasmasturm.org
nice argument against WADL
(tags: rest WADL webservices)

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links for 2007-05-28

thehereweb - The ‘Here Web’
Another thing to try on my N800
(tags: java n800 maemo OSGi)

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Joost

I spent some time playing with Joost, the streaming video/online TV thingy from the makers of Skype and Kazaa. There’s a lot to like about it conceptually. I live in Helsinki where basically public television sucks and the commercial cable packages suck slightly less. So to me Joost is pretty compelling: major content publishers lining [...]

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links for 2007-05-26

Free Swinging / Weblog / robertschuster / Fellows / The Fellowship - Fellowship of FSFE
Great! Testing this will be first thing on monday.
(tags: jalimo java n800)

OSCON 2005 Keynote - Identity 2.0
Nice presentation about identity
(tags: Web20 openid identity)

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links for 2007-05-22

Simon Phipps, SunMink: Ten Reasons The World Needs Patent Covenants
Totally agree with this.
(tags: patents)

links for 2007-05-20

5 Techniques for Enhancing Contrast in Digital Photos
Useful advice on improving contrast. Three out of five discussed techniques were new to me and quite useful addition to my arsenal of techniques.
(tags: photoshop photography tutorial)

links for 2007-05-19

helsinki times
Too bad, no rss feed.
(tags: Finland)

New photos

I’ve been using my camera and photoshop a bit the past few months and finally found the time to let jalbum do its job. I’ve added three directories to my photo album:

Some pictures I took on my way to work when it was very cold a few months ago
Playing tourist in Amsterdam
Nice view on the [...]

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More ubuntu

I’ve given up on feisty. I’ve blogged several times now about my failure to install it properly. Today I gave it another try and partially succeeded before failing again.
I read somewhere that you can bypass the scanning the mirrors problem by disconnecting the network cable. You see, running ifdown eth0 is not good enough because [...]

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OSGi: some criticism

Over the past few weeks, I’ve dived into the wonderful world called OSGi. OSGi is a standardized (by a consortium and soon also JCP) set of java interfaces and specifications that effectively layer a component model on top of Java. By component I don’t mean that it replaces JavaBeans with something else but that it [...]

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