I’ve finally gotten around to implementing Drag and Drop of a filtered task view in ClockingIT. It took a bit longer than anticipated due to my Ruby newbieness, but I did manage to get it sorted in the end. While I was at it, I ajaxified edit Task / Tasklist, and fixed the popup menu [...]
Archives for May 2006
Kiwi Actor vs Amazons 1-click-shopping patent
Kiwi actor v Amazon.com – Technology – smh.com.au > After trawling the US patent records, Calveley found another patent describing an “online secure financial transaction system” which had been lodged in 1996 – a year before Amazon’s. > He also found references to a so-called DigiCash payment method in which a click on a website [...]
Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod
Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod | CNET News.com > A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to a settlement in a class action suit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment over anticopying software the company had embedded in some music CDs. > The agreement (click for PDF) covers anyone who bought, received or used [...]
XM faces legal action from the RIAA
XM faces legal action from the RIAA - The Digital Music Weblog > Although usually such good friends, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Satellite radio provider XM have just fallen out over a new portable digital music player and they’re airing their dirty laundry in public with a multi-million dollar law suit. [...]
Red Hat: Java Linux license does not go far enough
Red Hat: Java Linux license does not go far enough | The Register > Sun Microsystems’ new GNU/Linux-friendly Java license does not go far enough for Red Hat. It says Sun should have open-sourced Java instead. > Brian Stevens, Red Hat CTO, told The Register Sun should open-source its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) (which is [...]
Dr. Dobb’s | Ruby On Rails
Dr. Dobb’s | Ruby On Rails | May 16, 2006 > It catches your attention when a respected member of the Java development community says Ruby On Rails may be a successor to Java. You’ve heard of Rails, of course. It’s that hot Ruby-based MVC-patterned full-stack framework for developing web applications that babysit databases. Dr. [...]
RIAA leaning on Universities
Recording Industry Association of America > WASHINGTON – As part of the entertainment industry’s efforts to address the ongoing theft of music and movies online by college students, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today announced a systematic program to identify and curtail campus Local Area [...]
Sun flirts with Ubuntu: ZDNet Australia
Sun flirts with Ubuntu: ZDNet Australia: News: Software > At JavaOne, both sides say they really like each other — suggesting a role for Ubuntu’s upcoming “Dapper Drake” operating system on Sun Microsystems’ servers. > Ubuntu Linux got a ringing endorsement from Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Tuesday in San Francisco. In turn, Ubuntu project [...]
Sun Recasts Java Licensing for GNU/Linux and OpenSolaris Communities
Sun Recasts Java Licensing for GNU/Linux and OpenSolaris Communities > SAN FRANCISCO, JAVAONE CONFERENCE, May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), the creator and leading advocate of Java™ technology, today announced that Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 5 is now available for redistribution by GNU/Linux and OpenSolaris(SM) operating system distributors under the [...]
Undo Software announces UndoDB
Undo Software announces UndoDB > Undo Software today unveiled UndoDB — the first bidirectional debugger for compiled programs. > A bidirectional debugger allows programmers to run a program backwards in time as well as forwards. The program can be stepped back line-by-line, or rewound to any point in its history. Furthermore, programmers can play the [...]