UCM Central seems to be a nice little collection of things related to configuration management.
UCMcentral is a popular non commercial "Coffee Break" site providing support and education in the field of Configuration Management. It is the intention of this site to promote CM in both traditional and new areas of technology.
We'll definitely be in Amsterdam from 30th of September until the 9th of October. Got some meetings to attend, and a haus party to throw, so if you've in the vicinity, holler, and we'll hook up.
Good gravy. I can't understand how otherwise intelligent developers think that doing development on Windows is a Good Idea. I've spent the last 3 days ostensibly wasting time fighting Win2k in order to debug some Java that works just fine on Linux and OSX but fails to operate correctly on Win32. Luckily, I've had VMWare at my disposal, but the window hosting Windows is just like a pit of hell.
Even adding Cygwin is not sufficient to make using Windows fun. I guess I've gotten used to the Unix way of things, and window managers with 10 virtual screens, and console windows that I can resize, even horizontally, by just dragging. I'm starting to think that I should add a Win32 surchage to my daily rate when forced to deal with this toy of an operating system.
Over the weekend, I had the distinct pleasure of spending some time with Thomas Diesler, the man behind the JSR-94 binding for drools. We knocked around a few ideas for improving drools to make it "enterprise-grade" mostly involving distributed transactions.
Hopefully sometime soon I'll get the opportunity to return to drools to implement some of these ideas. Particularly interesting would be to allow a working-memory to participate in an XA transaction so that rules may be fired upon commit or even be used to abort a transaction involving multiple resources.
Additionally, we noodled around with some ideas regarding using drools in a distributed cache environment for scalability, in addition to not-in-memory fact bases such as JDBC datasources (or more appropriately, JCA datasources).
So, no, not much content in this entry. Just noting that sometimes you have to connect with someone in real life to breath some enthusiasm back into a project. Plus, my blog had rolled all entries, and was completely blank.
