Ads in your behind-the-firewall systems management console.

Fleury asks the Jave EE community, "who's your daddy?"

"Remember when Web services standards (WS-*) were there to obviate the need for all that heavy lifting around components and object brokering?" Word.

One secret is to mail back anything you don't watch in a couple days. Another is to rent a lot of TV series on DVD. That shit gets watched and it totally worth it. (I should do both of those more ;>)

"It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it."

"I am a big fan of mind mapping. Coté of Redmonk creates great mind maps." Yuh! Thanks ;)

To paraphrase Steve's reaction: YUH!

Screenshots of using Spiceworks, a behind the firewall web app systems management app/platform.

"Following Coleman's death, he has been since celebrated as one of the best skilled emcees of all time, due to his oft-lauded punchlines and razor-sharp lyrics."

"And how about scrapping all those expensive BMC and other IT tools where the staff that use them have long since been laid off? Buy bigger machines and redundancy - its a whole lot cheaper!"

Screenshots of FiveRuns beta. Fun for all those, like me, who've been waiting to see this Rails based, hosted systems management platform.

Two folks to checkout: nVision ProactiveNet.

"Oh yeah, our entire application is built on Ruby On Rails from top to bottom."

Looks like a new blog on funing/statup/IT stuff in Austin.

Short note in Austin-American Statesman on Spiceworks.

Spiceworks command for yubnub.

I know it sounds dumb...but extending the network can't be all too bad AS LONG AS it's extreamly open. If it runs SNMP and SSH, we're set. Otherwise, it's dodgy. I know Cisco likes this too.

PhotoShoppers! Start your engines!

Some kind words from Luis on RedMonk. Thanks!

A post for Feb. 2005.

"jMatter is a software framework for constructing workgroup business applications based on the Naked Objects Architectural Pattern." Hrm. And dual licensed.

...from 2004.