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Rusten in vrede – Mark Hoekstra

Posted by Chris Custine in Uncategorized on September 20th, 2008

Via Bright Magazine, one of my favorite makers/hackers has passed away this past week.  With the help of Google translate, it sounds as if he had a sudden heart attack while riding his bike.  34 years is way too young to pass like this.  Mark ran the site Geek Technique.

Edit:  The irony is thick… his last track scrobbled on Last.fm was Instant Death by the Beastie Boys.  Geeks love irony ;-)

Rest in Peace Mark Hoekstra

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VMware Fusion 2.0 released

Posted by Chris Custine in Uncategorized on September 17th, 2008

I already blogged about the new VMware Studio product yesterday but somehow I missed the release of VMware Fusion 2.0 in the last week as well.  Fusion 2.0 rounds out the features to make this release more even with the features in Workstation 6.x on Linux and Windows.  New features include command line interface (vmrun), multiple snapshots (sorely missing from 1.0), and some general UI awesomeness.  If you have paid for Fusion 1.0 the upgrade is totally free and you can use your old serial number.

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Try ServiceMix 4!

Posted by Chris Custine in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2008


ServiceMix 4 is built on an all new OSGi architecture and contains major enhancements to the underlying container. There have been several milestone releases but we need more feedback from the community as we get closer to a release. I encourage anyone currently using or interested in ServiceMix to try out the new ServiceMix 4 Milestone 3 release and give us some feedback, scream at us, praise it, or whatever your initial reaction is. This release is a fairly stable build and should serve as a good test for anyone evaluating ServiceMix and deciding to go with version 3 or 4. Documentation is somewhat lean ;-) but once we get some feedback and things are solid we can add the necessary docs. Come on, you know you want to try it. Go ahead and give it a shot!

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Apache Directory Studio 1.0 for LDAP

Posted by Chris Custine in Identity Management, Java, Uncategorized, ldap on September 6th, 2007

 

 

This week the Apache Directory project released the long awaited Apache Directory Studio version 1.0. Being on the Apache Directory project of course I am biased, but I really think that Directory Studio is the best LDAP administration tools out there, and that includes many commercial offerings. Most of the Apache Directory team is in Cologne Germany this week at the 1st annual LDAPCon conference on… you guessed right, LDAP. We are starting to get a little more attention these days on the Apache Directory project so it has been nice to meet and learn about new users of our project. Even in the other extreme, there are many people that aren’t even aware of the project, but many are learning about it from the publicity surrounding the Directory Studio release. I have met several people here at LDAPCon this week who knew about Directory Studio, but who had no clue that we also have a 100% Java Open Group LDAPv3 certified server implementation called Apache Directory Server.

I suppose I will blog more about these products in the near future, but the release of Directory Studio 1.0 is a huge accomplishment made by two fine members of our team, Stefan Seelmann and Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot. Absolutely brilliant work guys, congratulations.

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