I’d never tried deploying a WebObjects app under Tomcat (or JBoss, or any other J2EE container) before. I’d always just stuck with the built-in WebObjects appserver, and did the config/management in JavaMonitor. Well, it’s now a Really Good Idea™ to make sure any app you want to deploy on non-MacOSX boxes will work in the servlet engines.
So, I did a quick RTFM. (twice, because it’s taking longer for it to soak in after midnight after a busy day of WWDC) Then I twiddled the appropriate bits in my XCode project build settings. Built the .war bundle. Downloaded Tomcat (for servlet spec 2.2), copied the .war into the webapps directory, and lit it up. It just worked. Mostly. Except for funky CSS stuff (because I don’t have any freaking idea how to deploy a Tomcat/WO app, and stuff that’s normally vended via Apache is now just firing 404s).
The demo of the iTunes implementation of podcasting was pretty sweet. Totally simple to find/subscribe to podcasts from a directory (like the Radio Stations section), and you can subscribe to any feed you want, outside of the directory.
Probably the coolest thing was the support for chapters within the podcasts - both for navigation, and for display of artwork. You can break a podcast into multiple chapters, each with their own image that changes the “cover art” when that part of the podcast is being played. Could make for quite powerful walking tours (coughSFMOMAahem) or lecture recordings (slides of PPT/Keynote in sync with audio).
OK. So, I was wrong… MacOSX 10.4.1 runs on Pentium 4 chips. The whole Stevenote was done on a Pentium 4, and nobody knew until he opened “About This Mac”.
Holy. Shit.
So Apple has a lot of work to do, undoing all the anti-Intel/Pentium marketing.
Questions: What about Altivec code? 64-bit code? Does this mean a Red Box windows compatibility layer is more feasible now?
Just registered. Nobody in line ahead of me (surprisingly). The bag is a cool backpack this year, which I think will get a lot of use… There’s a nice little nalgene water bottle in the bag, and a cool little caribiner pen - like the one from 2003, but black of course. I’ll be losing the ‘beener from the pen before I actually write with it, though… The conference schedule dealies are smart - at-a-glance overview booklet, and each day has it’s own separate booklet for marking up etc… No notebook this year, which is odd… Actually, now that I think about it, the conference bag is surprisingly devoid of goodies… no demo CDs, no packages from 3rd parties… makes you go ‘hmmmm…..’
I’m sitting at Gate C25 at the Calgary Airport, waiting for the flight to San Francisco. Evan and Janice came to the airport as well, as a dry-run for our trip next week. Evan loved the airport. The hardest part will be reigning him in, since he wants to go exploring everything.
This was the fastest security checkin I’ve ever experienced. I planned on an hour to get through security, prior to boarding time. It took maybe 5 minutes, from customs declaration/eval to security clearance, to sitting at the gate typing this. The place was deserted. One other couple was passing through.
It seems as though everyone’s all in a huff over the “news” article posted on cnet.news.news.com.com.com, which suggests that the WWDC Stevenote may reveal a switch from IBM/Power-based CPUs to Intel-based CPUs. That’s a load of hooey. Apple’s been publicly crapping on Intel’s CPUs in all of its presentations, marketing, website info for the last several years.
Megahertz Myth? Pipelines? Etc… Apple’s been talking some serious trash about Intel. I’m not a CPU-head, so I wouldn’t know one way or another. But, for Apple to suddenly pull up stakes and say “Wait, we were wrong all along - Power sucks, and Intel rocks. We’re going to transition the whole product line over to the Pentium line.” Sorry. Doesn’t make sense.
I was going to blog this yesterday after our staff meeting, but, well, got kind of swamped getting Mavericks ready for authoring while I’m away. Now Rick’s Cafe has beaten me to the punch…
We’re going to be doing some really cool things in the LC in the coming months/years, and the person in this position would get to play on both the teaching-and-learning and software-development sides of things.
I’ll be out of the office for the next 3+ weeks - should be back on June 28 if all goes well. I tried to change my voicemail message today to warn people that I won’t be able to check messages for a while, but couldn’t remember how to change the silly message. I should be more embarrassed about that than I am - I hate using the phone to begin with, and there are better/more efficient ways to get in touch with me.
I was interviewed for a segment on podcasting in GlobalTV’s TKO. More info about the segment is in another post.
I asked the producer of my podcasting segment if I could distribute a digital version of the clip. She said that wouldn’t be possible (which is fine), but then offered to host the clip on their website.
So… Head on over to TechnicalKnockout.tv to check out the clip in all of its 2-minute-long glory. And they made me do the walking-with-iPod thing. I swear :-)
I just used Blogdigger.com to create a new group for ADCE - which includes a combined RSS feed for all ADCE blogs. It takes each individual RSS feed, monitors them for changes, and spits out a single feed that can be easily subscribed or shared.
It’s pulling previous entries, so it should be a usable RSS feed now (it was empty until Blogdigger spidered the feeds, of course).
I guess that means I’ll be able to hit both events!
Update: - well, the registration for the blogger’s gathering is closed (it’s a catered event, and they needed payment etc…), and the WO gathering has moved to the Chieftain Irish Pub. Looks like I may wind up at the Chieftain, or take the evening to stroll SoMA (or head to the waterfront?).
Battlestar Galactica Season 2 is coming, and much sooner than I was thinking! It looks like it’s starting July 15 in the States! This is going to be good…
Season 1 was probably the best scifi ever made (it’s definitely the best TV scifi, and probably in the top 10 best scifi of all time - movies and TV!)