I've been caressing the idea to buy a Wi-Fi enabled media player in order to
tap into the gigabytes of (legal) music that sits in my NAS. I've considered
investing into a Logitech Squeezebox, or a similar product, but I wasn't sure
such a device would be able to play directly from an NFS share, without any
music server running somewhere.
Just when I started to consider building a player out of a SheevaPlug, I
remembered of the ultimate source of cheap hardware, ready to be repurposed:
eBay. $125 and a few days later I had a like-new black Asus Eee PC 2G Surf
waiting to be turned into a music player.
The unit came with Ubuntu Eee Hardy Heron on it and only 50MB of free space
left on its 2GB solid state drive. After a merciless review of all the
installed applications, I en... (more)
To be able to do anything useful, an ESB must be configured with all sorts of
parameters, from endpoint connection URIs to message transformation scripts
to content-based routing definitions. Moreover, ESBs like Mule can host
custom components, which will process messages and perform user-specific
actions on them.
Deploying a new version of an ESB configuration raises the question of
wh... (more)
As software manifestos have started to proliferate these past months, I have
started to wonder what could be the root cause for their creation. Why would
thought leaders gather, assert a small set of values and shrink-wrap them as
a manifesto, calling for others to sign it? My feeling is that these
manifestos are the expression of a pushback on a particular aspect of
software development... (more)
If you wonder why is the Software Craftsmanship movement valuable, Calvin and
Hobbes have the answer for you:
© 1996 Bill Watterson
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I feel a little like George McFly, now...
Trees had to die to get us there by here we are: Mule in Action is now
treeware. And in case you missed it, the making of was here.
Enjoy the reading!
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