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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David Dossot has worked as a software engineer and architect for more than 14 years. He is a co-author of Mule in Action and is the project despot of the JCR Transport and a member of the Mule Community Committee. He is the project lead of NxBRE, an open source business rules engine for the .NET platform (selected for O'Reilly's Windows Developer Power Tools). He is also a judge for the Jolt Product Excellence Awards and has written several articles for SD Magazine. He holds a Production Systems Engineering Diploma from ESSTIN.
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