I tried out this Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin the other day and I can report that it’s nothing short of fantastic. It makes Facebook chat SO much better (actually usable) and you don’t even need to log into Facebook!
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Making Facebook chat useful
Posted in Community, Uncategorized on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
First 100% free implementation of Java 6 is out!
Posted in Community, Java on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to thank everyone involved in walking the last mile of creating a true free distriubution of the Java 6 platform.
It was fantastic that Sun open sourced 95% of Java and it’s great that RedHat and GNU Classpath has made the last steps to give us a truly free open source distribution of [...]
Why don’t people quote their emails?
Posted in Community, Email, The Dark Side on December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Very few people these days knows the good practice of quoting. Proper email quoting makes all email correspondence easier and makes it possible to keep the overview of email discussions with multiple participants. Email quoting is described in RFC1855 (Netiquette Guidelines) and a good overview on the topic can be read here: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/quoting.html.
The only email [...]
RPM support in Maven2
Posted in Community, GNU/Linux, Java on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was positively suprised to find a rather good RPM plugin for Maven2. It has a neat way of specify both mapping and package scripts. I haven’t looked at package dependencies yet, but it looks good!
Now, if only the DEB plugin for Maven2 would be usable, we would be in package heaven once again! [...]
Me too want Flickr?
Posted in Community on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A friend of me wrote that he had uploaded some pictures to Flickr and that he needed some way of inviting me. I’ve never understood what the fuzz is all about with Flickr, but registered an account anyway. So far the big IDEA hasn’t reached me why this site/concept is so great, but maybe some [...]
Blogging
Posted in Community on March 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m trying out this blog thing now. Up untill now, I’ve been quite happy updating my website on the world wide web (you’ll find it if you Google me), but I thought I’d check out this blogging thing, to see what it’s all about.
To not overlap my website (personal diary, pictures, poetry, music, essays [...]
