I'm in the U.S. at the moment at the Colorado Software Summit.

The highlights so far have been updates on what's in JDK 1.5, the new metadata facility for Java (coming in 1.5), and XSLT 2.0 stuff.

I'm here presenting on Maven and Jelly.

See this, a fairly unemotional article for a change.

There's now an NSIS plugin for maven, which automates the creation of a simple win32 installation program.

To use it, you can check it out of Maven Plugins CVS

I was looking for a way to get viewcvs going for our CVS for NT installation.
I tried installing Python for Windows and using that, but it seems that viewcvs and python for windows don't get along. After that, I gave Cygwin a go.
I could get Apache up and going with a little modification to the httpd.conf, but viewcvs just kept barfing on me about

 "unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl-0.9.7.dll" 

on every request. I then found out that to fix this, I should do a

 rebaseall 

from a fresh cygwin window with no other cygwin processes running. After this all went well
I'm now checking out ViewCVS for Windows for a native solution.
Fingers crossed. Update: That worked fine once I upgraded to a later version of CVS for NT.

Saw [Google Tag Library] in my email inbox today.

Good for public sites and open source projects.

I got MozBlog set up to work with codehaus and can now blog easily from the browser window. Sweeeeet.

Been using the Nullsoft installer for the recent maven stuff, and it's a pretty slick package once you combine it with an editor

There is a refresh of the maven installer for windows.

This one adds an uninstaller, links to common documents, checks for JAVA_HOME before installing and shows the ASL on startup.

Maven gets a .exe for Windows users

Cygwin includes sshd.

Getting that running was reasonably easy thanks to some good docs.

I needed to set up a cheap DNS server on windows today to service intranet requests.

Man, there are some real shockers out there. Finding a binary download for bind for windows is a joke.

I ended up using posadis

Good docs, easy to get going. A breeze!

While adding some powered-by sites to maven today, I stumbled across
a cool looking tag library.

Yet to use it, but it certainly looks the job.

If you're looking for a place to bash Maven, go join them at
The Server Side.

We all love to bitch and moan don't we?