Reality Loop

March 17, 2009
reCAPTCHA / Crowdsourcing

reCAPTCHA is an interesting idea. Seemingly 150'000 hours are spent every day, solving Captchas. This is quite a waste of intellectual energy. reCAPTCHA now tries to recycle this intellectual energy... something like a mental wind-power-plant.....
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March 12, 2009
Upcoming Review: JBoss Portal Server Development by Ramanujam Rao

Packt Publishing was very kind to send me a copy of their new Book 'JBoss Portal Server Development' by Ramanujam Rao for review. Book description: Complete guide with examples for building enterprise portal applications using the free, ope...
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March 11, 2009
Sticky open source?

Open source today is often just a lazy attempt to create a public standard. Throw some code at a wall and see what sticks. - Jan Erik Paulsen Sun is pulling a “Netscape rewrite” with JavaFX follow me on twitter, I need some friends :-)
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March 09, 2009
Maven inside: say hello to Groovy Grape!

Actually the title should be 'Ivy inside' - but the coolest thing about Maven is its dependency management... the part that Apache Ivy provides. Groovy 1.6 has a very cool new feature: Grape - The Groovy Adaptable Packaging Engine Example:...
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March 08, 2009
Uncle Bob: The Renaissance of Craftsmanship

Uncle Bob hits the nail on the head once again in his Oredev 2008 keynote. Great talk, recommended for anybody involved in software construction. My favorite quotes: Avoid turgid, viscous architectures. The enterprise architecture that solve...
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