The founders of the Groovy and Grails projects have formed a new services and support company around Grails and Groovy - g2one.com.  Certainly early days for the company (just a few I think) but it looks like good news for both communities.  Having a ‘real’ organization - someone you can pay - will no doubt [...]

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Whew!  The last several months have brought a flurry of web tech activity, the likes of which I haven’t seen in years.
Apollo/Silverlight/JavaFX all are aiming at reinventing in-browser development.
Yahoo Pipes, Ning, Coghead and some other platforms are giving us new ways to think about web-based development.
The YUI/Dojo/Scriptaculous/Atlas/jQuery/GWT AJAX toolkits - what can I say?  They [...]

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I’ve been a fan of a lot of the Yahoo developments over the past few months - specifically all the openness which has characterized their Yahoo Developer center, the Yahoo UI toolkit, and things of that nature.  I’m looking to build a service which requires an embedded, scrollable map.  As much as I like Yahoo, [...]

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I’ve got some sites which have google’s adsense on them.  Just today someone at my office clicked an ad on one of the sites I run (http://www.watchmyspam.com) and I’m now dreading Google banning my account.  Everything here is going to look like it’s coming from one IP address, and I have previously checked my google [...]

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Not sure if *any* webmail program has this, but what I’d appreciate is a way to report different types of junk mail.  Instead of reporting everything as ’spam’ (which is a good idea), being able to report mail as ‘phishing attempt’ or ‘contains trojan’ (for example) would help the mail provider analyze the types of [...]

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Not sure if *any* webmail program has this, but what I’d appreciate is a way to report different types of junk mail.  Instead of reporting everything as ’spam’ (which is a good idea), being able to report mail as ‘phishing attempt’ or ‘contains trojan’ (for example) would help the mail provider analyze the types of [...]

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Keith over at dotnetpimps (see trackback) has written a decent piece on the state of open source software and what it has and what it doesn’t. Really not anything that hasn’t been said before, but nicely summed up.
I’ve had discussions with mark on this topic over years (and with keith occasionally) and Mark’s take [...]

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I was pleasantly surprised to just learn that there’s a beta of Google Earth v4 for Linux.  I’ve heard some good stuff about Google Earth, and saw it running on a Windows machine once, but had never installed it (even when using a Windows machine).  So, I thought I’d give it a try out today.  [...]

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