Chester Lake Snowshoeing

There has been quite a bit of snow up in the Spray Lakes area. We decided to try the Chester Lake Snowshoe Trail. It was raining on the drive down Highway 40 towards Kananaskis, but it changed to snow as we started to ascend up the Smith-Dorrien road. By the time we got to the … [Read more…]

links for 2007-03-31

Build a framework for problem determination triage I need to do something very like this… the question is, will this framework of IBM’s help me or will it be more work to convert everything to CBE first. (tags: autonomic triage symptom software event problem xml)

links for 2007-03-30

Enterprise Password Vault: Password Management Software – Cyber-Ark Software (tags: password lockbox software) Egothor Home :: egothor search engine I built one of these myself using Lucene (tags: search software java opensource)

More on Searching

When I was presenting to the Calgary Java User’s Group about Building your own search engine, the topic of Egothor came up. I’ll have to check it out. See my previous comments on searching email. Powered by ScribeFire.

Password lockbox

With the advent of Sarbanes-Oxley, it seems everyone is hot to start changing their passwords on a regular basis. This is enough of a problem for people, but when systems need to use passwords to get things done automatically, it turns into a nightmare. I started putting together a specification for a password “lockbox” that … [Read more…]

links for 2007-03-28

Java UUID Generator – Home I started down this road myself (taking the sample code from the RFC’s and translating it to java, but stumbled over the inability to obtain a MAC address in java) (tags: java network guid software)

links for 2007-03-27

VNC2Go – A Mobile (Midlet) VNC Viewer Client Now that I’ve got ssh running on my phone… (tags: vnc java midp mobile software) MidpSSH | SSH and Telnet client for Mobile devices (MIDP/J2ME) 320×240 px == 80 cols x 41lines !!!… (tags: java midp software mobile ssh)

links for 2007-03-19

Pet Peeve: Learning Curve Misuse My blog posting on the misuse of “Steep Learning Curve” (tags: learningcurve) QueryForm Database Tool Quck Java-based Swing tool for updating data in database tables (tags: database java opensource)

QueryForm

QueryForm: a Swing-based Java tool for editing database tables. For those times when you just don’t want to write a CRUD interface or use raw SQL. DbVisualizer’s “Update where” and “Insert into” functionality is OK for one or two rows, but this tool lets you edit many rows almost painlessly. powered by performancing firefox