There’s been a recent teaser campaign from Sun introducing the Fedlet. What is the Fedlet? It’s apparently Sun’s hot, new solution to the problem of federated single-sign-on. An identity provider, a bank for example, can use Sun’s Federated Access Manager to create a Fedlet to send to the service providers in their [...]

Sun recently acquired MySQL, a gutsy move that some might interpret as a slap in the face to Oracle. Oracle’s database has been a key part of enterprise Java software stacks for a long time and, until this point, a relational database was one of the few things that Sun did not directly provide [...]

Michael and I recently read this article on a relatively new project at Sun: “a royalty-free and open video codec and media system”.
There is much debate among members of the W3C about what codec should be the standard for embedded video on the Internet. The W3C has insisted that any video codec standard for [...]

Tenthline.blog() now runs on Wordpress 2.5!
Just looking at the new interface, I’m pretty excited already. Our theme seems to be intact and we weren’t using many plug-ins to begin with so no worries there. We had the Textile2 plug-in for a while but it was causing issues with accented letters so we disabled [...]

Alfresco is turning out to be a very interesting CMS. It seems to have its roots in managing enterprise documents, and that sort of enterprise feel permeates the design, even when one is using web content management.
So far, learning it has been a rapid roller coaster of being impressed and being frustrated. The [...]

Jeff Atwood recently wrote about what he calls The First Rule of Programming: it’s always your fault. That is, we should resist the temptation to blame the OS, the tools, the framework, and other technologies when the problem might still lie with our own code. To explain some of the merit in this [...]

Michael somehow found an opportunity to slip a pesky extension into my Firefox called the Total Confusion Pack. I was just tired enough when I woke up this morning that I was scratching my head trying to figure out why vowels were spontaneously going missing or why seemingly “safe” links actually got me RickRoll’d. [...]