Weekly Chatter: Airborne Wifi and “Nobody’s Happy”

Sanjiva’s post reminded me how amazing our current technology is.  I’m sure he’d appreciate this great clip of Louis CK on Conan.  My iPhone 3G (Google Maps & Pandora while speeding down the freeway?!) is a source of ongoing amazement to me.

Hymn

Simple spontaneous hymn for a Sunday afternoon.

 
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Shadow of Doubt

Podcast returns after a busy month of work and travel. Is this a balanced life? I’m not sure…

 
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WSO2 Mashup Server 1.5.2 released

Today a minor release of the WSO2 Mashup Server went out.  Nothing dramatic, but a few nasty bugs have been fixed and annoyances addressed, including:

  1. A memory leak that some of us experienced when running periodic page scrapes over a long period.
  2. Case insensitive searching.
  3. An “ignoreUncited” annotation to allow the HTTP binding to POST parameters in the body instead of as URI parameters – which have a 2K limit in IE, and limits in other browsers as well.
  4. Recent Activity queries on a specific mashup now work – a typeahead helps you identify the mashup you want to track.
  5. Feeds and getXML now support basic authentication.

This clears the way for the larger project – bringing mashup capability into the WSO2 Carbon platform.

Enjoy!

Hitchhiker’s Wiki to the Galaxy

For some reason I chose to watch an episode of the old BBC on Netflix last night.  The parallel between the Guide and Wikipedia was striking.  Have a question?  Look it up in the [Guide/Wikipedia].  Foolproof?  No.  Useful?  Take a look at this before you answer – seems to guarantee a practical best-seller to me!