http://agylen.com Ugo Cei's Weblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:59:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Update: The D60 has now been sold, and the 55-200mm will be sold soon. I am breaking a long silence on this blog for a short announcement. Activity on the blog will resume as soon as I have made up my mind about the direction it should go. I am considering ... http://agylen.com/2010/03/06/nikon-d60-kit-up-for-grabs/ This is bullshit. You can tell it is bullshit by the fact that there is no unit declared for the Y axis and there is no credible source for all the data that is shown in this graph. This is bullshit too. for exactly the same reasons. Actually, the second is even ... http://agylen.com/2009/05/28/bullshit-graphs/ Tomorrow I will be presenting our CMIS Explorer Portlet during this week's episode of Alfresco Tech Talk Live. This is going to be a fairly technical talk, with lots of code thrown in for the developers' benefit. If you want to know more about CMIS and how to leverage it ... http://agylen.com/2009/05/14/alfresco-tech-talk-live-12pm-est-friday-may-15st-2009/ Since it's been a while since I've posted anything about job-related events, here's a recap of a number of things that made—or should have made—the news in the last few weeks. First of all, we made a big splash by being named EMEA JBoss Partner of the Year at the Red ... http://agylen.com/2009/05/04/job-related-updates/ OK, this is old news, as the official birthday was yesterday, but yesterday I was too busy to write anything here. Actually I was busy having lunch with the person who personally signed the letter of incorporation, Roy T. Fielding. Curiously, neither of us was in Amsterdam, that's how life ... http://agylen.com/2009/03/27/the-asf-is-10-years-old/ I am looking for an ultra-wide angle lens for my Nikon D60 to complement my current collection of lenses. I currently own the 18-55mm VR kit lens and the 55-200mm VR as well, so I am pretty well covered above 18mm. I also have a collection of old, pre-AI, prime ... http://agylen.com/2009/02/11/ultra-wide-zoom-shoot-out/ Apache OFBiz Development: The Beginner's Tutorial, by Jonathon Wong and Rupert Howell, aims to fill a niche that was completely empty until this book was published. The Apache OFBiz project is an Open Source framework for building enterprise automation applications on the Java platform. OFBiz has been used to build ... http://agylen.com/2009/02/05/apache-ofbiz-development-book-review/ By way of Charlie Stross, I came upon The Cthulhu Tract, which can be amusing if you are a fan of HPL and have ever seen a Jack Chick tract. I wonder whether PZ Myers knows about it ;) http://agylen.com/2009/01/17/the-cthulhu-tract/ Alfresco Developer Guide, by Jeff Potts, is the second title about Alfresco recently published by Packt Publishing, after Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation, by Munwar Shariff, that was published almost two years ago. For those who don't know, Alfresco is the leading Open Source Enterprise Content Management system and is rapidly ... http://agylen.com/2008/12/11/alfresco-developer-guide-book-review/ Vatican opposes de-criminalising same sex unions -Times Online: "The Vatican has said it opposes a European Union proposal for a United Nations declaration formally condemning discrimination against homosexuals, which it claims would 'de-criminalise' same sex unions. Monsignor Celestino Migliore, the Holy See's permanent observer at the UN, said the Catechism of ... http://agylen.com/2008/12/01/better-not/ The latest of a number of projects to graduate from the Apache Incubator is Abdera. I started using Abdera for client projects a while ago, did some contributions and was named a committer, so even though I haven't been following it closely as of recent, I', still happy to see ... http://agylen.com/2008/11/24/abdera-graduation/ Wow! I thought the WSJ was a serious, reputable journal, and that you had to have some intelligence, insight, and decency to be allowed to get your words published on it. That seems not to be the case, if any idiot with an axe to grind, like Daniel Henninger, can simply ... http://agylen.com/2008/11/22/blame-the-atheists/ If you are in Milan next week, don't miss the event Sourcesense is hosting together with JBoss at the Ristorante Santini, Via S.Marco 3. We are going to be talking about JBoss solutions, of course, and about our approach to Agile methodologies. All while enjoying a nice meal in one of ... http://agylen.com/2008/11/19/have-lunch-with-sourcesense-and-jboss/ The last two days have been the most rewarding, fun, and tiresome days since I've joined Sourcesense almost three years ago. We had our first company-wide meeting in Milan, which, seeing as we are more than forty people now, was something that was really needed for a company that, while ... http://agylen.com/2008/11/01/sourcesense-day-2008/ I haven't been working for Joost for quite a while, more than one year actually. But I knew already then that they were working on a new web version of their player, one that runs in-browser instead of requiring users to download and run a dedicated software program. Today's announcement from ... http://agylen.com/2008/09/19/joost-v2/