November, 15, 2004 archives

BEA’s Apache Beehive Hits Milestone

Officials at BEA Systems announced the first milestone release of their open source project, Apache Beehive.

i’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

stealing an idea (and four lines of code) from shelley powers, i’ve implemented a very basic live comment preview. i need to read up on this xml http request object thing (which this does not use) to try doing other and more clever things. (christian stocker’s livesearch is a good example of clever xml http request object usage.)

that was easy. i bolted on the basic livesearch here. the integration could (and maybe someday will) be improved, but it was quite easy to get going.

disney to make toy story 3 sans pixar. that just sounds like a colossally bad idea.

amazon has been releasing a series of short films, and this week’s is agent orange, directed by tony scott. it’s shot using a hand-cranked camera, and is really quite amazing. it is also shot at the 7th and metro station, primarily on the blue line level.

i never had much luck with the in-page movie player, and just downloaded the quicktime, which is down lower on the page.

(the first film in the series, portrait, wasn’t nearly as interesting.)

the two new albums i just got are a study in constrasts: encore by eminem and she like electric by smoosh (the latter discovered via d. keith robinson). buy the smoosh album now. make your own call on the eminem album — i assume that you have discovered whether you like his music or not by now.