I’m looking at Prevayler ( a non relational Java persistence framework ). Along the way I’ve also run across the cute Skaringa XML serialization for Java, and the Preclipse Prevayler utilities for Eclipse.

I’m excited about the upcoming Rails framework for Ruby from David Hansson.

Browsing through the collection of fonts by Dieter Steffmann, I can’t help but imagine websites or entire companies to go with each gorgeous typeface.

In great armies the job of generals is to back up their sergeants. That’s just my opinion, but I know I’m right.” – Colonel Tom Wilhelm

(found via ParaPundit)

Magpie - Good way to fetch RSS feeds to be used in PHP scripts.

PHP powered website on a CD - I’ve had no idea something like this existed, though I knew it would not be too hard to do.

In an attempt to keep the development project I’m working on from getting bogged down, I’ve setup milestones that are between four weeks and one week long. (This organization, like most others, does not have a history of finishing software on time. Feature creep is a big problem. In my young, naive thinking, I’m trying to give us deadlines often enough that we can are forced to just do the most valuable parts of things, and not begin endlessly wandering around adding features, and rediscussing already discussed things.)

We nailed the first milestone. We did exactly what we needed to, no extra fluff, exactly on time. But I’m a little behind on the second milestone. Today I realized the difference between the two. Last time I semi-accidently made daily milestones to reach our big milestone. This I did not.

With the micro-milestones(AKA Inch pebbles ), I could instantly see if we were getting behind schedule, and more importantly be working on important things and not go wandering into the bushes.

Monday morning, we are having inch pebbles again. Lesson One: Learned.

My little brother was laughing this morning at breakfast about a new virus he had received - the virus claimed to be from his email server administrators (which would be me). Mutated Monkeys also is also enjoying the fun.

Looks like bagle.j is at work. Hope my grandmother does not get receive it.

Confluence is a powerful commercial wiki engine. I love the textile-style text formating.

Gus Mueller mentions Jira, a snazzy commercial bug tracking system, which is available for use by open source projects without charge.