September, 2006
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Phew!
Posted on September 23rd, 2006 by arnljot.
Categories: other.
Now I've only got to set the table and have a shower and relax before people start arriving. Jarle w/guest, Daniel & Tonje, Nina & Arnfinn, Lena, Asbjørn, Ole and Arne - You're in for a treat!Silence from the tv card makers
Posted on September 22nd, 2006 by arnljot.
Categories: other.
If you remember, I sent an e-mail to Hauppauge, Terratec and Pinnacle one week ago.
One week later there hasn’t been any development! No replies. Just dead silence. I’m really disappointed with them, and I’ll consider trying to call them next week.
This is really poor support 
Ultra - Bryn
Posted on September 22nd, 2006 by arnljot.
Categories: other.
GDMIT!!
Wednesday I agreed with a sales person in their butcher shop that I’d come thursday and pick up some nice large chickens from Holte farm.
After having paid 200 kr for a taxi ride to get there before closing, it turned out that there was only one chicken there(!), and they had no record of my order
This is crap, and if it wasn’t for the fact that I’m desparate for chickens for my birthday on saturday, I would have just told him how I felt and …. Grr.. yeah, I’m angry…
So, let’s see what happens today then? They promised to call me during the day to sort it out.
FAST ESP training
Posted on September 22nd, 2006 by arnljot.
Categories: other.
This week I’ve been attending a FAST ESP training course.
It’s been really interesting, and most fun of all, today I get a diploma! 
My impression of the application after one week is that it’s huge, a lot of functionality and knobs and dials to tune and play with. A “Big Application(tm)” for “Big Players”.
Release party! Arnljot 3.0
Posted on September 15th, 2006 by arnljot.
Categories: other.
Friends!
After a long time in the 2.x beta stadium I’m finally ready for release!
The new and improved “Arnljot 3.0″ has lower stress levels, and decreased hair growth which enables easier maintenance. Please come to the release party for the full product details.
Even though production setting is Wednesday the 20th, the kick-off/release party is at my place Saturday the 23rd.
I hope as many as possible will make it of those of you who’ve received e-mail today. For those of you who think you should get an e-mail, please just kick me in the shin, and I’ll love to have you over!
You’ll be bringing your own drinks and snacks, but I’ll be serving “Kylies Radical Chicken”.
Spam spam spam!
Posted on September 15th, 2006 by arnljot.
Categories: other.
Cripes!
Yesterday I got one of those really crappy spams from the evil people who pretend to be ” Barclays International Insurance Services Company Limited”.
It was their typical ploy. “Reactivate you account NOW” or it will be suspended! Now two things bothered me about this spam.
- I’ve always been very carefull with that particular e-mail.
- They have my name and address!
One thing is when a spammer has your e-mail. It doesn’t seem so personal, even we know that it can be used for some stuff… But these guys know much more about me:
11 September 2006 our security system detected an unsuccessfull access attempt to your online account from Ip address 81.190.253.29 that does not correspond to your current address:
Ette———
Oslo
—-
Please click here to confirm your current address or change it online.
That gave me chills…
Tv tuners and Java (Hauppauge, Pinnacle, Cinergy…)
Posted on September 15th, 2006 by arnljot.
Categories: java.
An idea came to me yesterday while at JavaZone.
So instead of sleeping through another speech, I sat down in a sofa with my laptop and started reading up on JMF.
What initially struck me was how little documentation that’s out there. Hardly any examples, and little implementations. I found however one guy in UK who’d about a year ago made a simple proof of concept using his Hauppauge card, but it was flawed.
And I also found one guy who’d made something using his webcam - close but no cigar.
So today I e-mailed Hauppauge, Pinnacle and Cinergy with a question on how to implement java support in JMF for their cards.
This is an aproximation of the e-mails I sent them:
Hi
I’m a javadeveloper who’s the proud owner of a [product name here] card.
And as a Javadeveloper I like to play around with things, and I’ve been looking into JMF for Java, and I’m working on a proof of concept application that plays video and shows streams from my Webcam.
My goal however is to make an application that will use my TV Card and let me watch tv channels.
But I’m having a problem.
- The card doesn’t show up in the jmf registry. Only the “Microsoft WDM Image Capture”, how do I identify my card which I think is WDM capable?
- When I’ve connected to it, how do I tune channels? I can’t see how to access that part of the WDM API through the JMF API.
My ideal goal is to create an (SENSORED ;)). But right now I’m having a really hard time finding any examples or documentation on how to access tv cards with java.
I really hope that your developers/techs can take some time out to look at this and point me to some relevant info
Thanks, and kind regards.
It was close to impossible to find a sensible e-mail for Pinnacle. Hard to reach seems to be their credo. But now we’ll just have to lean back and see how this goes.
I’ll keep you posted on who of these fine companies that find it in their hearts to respond (and what!) to a idependent developer
JavaZone06 & Catchup!
Posted on September 14th, 2006 by arnljot.
Categories: java, other.
Tuesday 12th
Tuesday was JavaUniversity where I attended a workshop with Maven2 creator Jason Van Zyl. I really like what I saw and learned, and can’t wait for Appfuse to come maven enabled. I’ll also start using it for my other projects.
Wednesday 13th
JavaZone: First I watched the presentation by Google(by Bryson Johnson) of the Google Web Tool kit. This is a really cool company that’s good at seducing you, so I’ll try the product when I’m a bit more cooled down 
Next presentation was a SDL methods speech by Rolv Brækk from NTNU. The speech started really slowly, but got really interesting towards the end when he touched on the code/deployment automation tools they’d created for eclipse.
Then there was a presentation was by Jonathan Purdy. It was a presentation of his top ten experiences on how to botch an aplication. The presentation was okay, but expecting him to use more humor and satire, I think he should have used more examples from the real world.
Gavin King spoke about JBoss Seam. Neat technology. Nice to know about. He’s a man with a reputation, so it was fun to see him speak and to demystify him ;-P
Scrum is something I’ve heard about, so to hear Ken Schwarber talk about ‘his baby’ was inspiring. But also having heard Borland talk about CMMI, it’s fun to compare and see how they really are talking about the same problems and really similar ways to solve it.
The next session was an embarresing deal for me. To my defence it was by now 6 hours later in the day, six hours packed with info in a by now fairly hot and stuffed confrence center. So for a while when Patric Linskey was talking on Good/Bad/Ugly sides of EJB3 I was nodding of. Sitting on the second row with no one in front of me it must have been anoying to him. It was purely me, and not his presentation because the presentation was really interesting.
Listening to Sun talking about Sun SPOTs was really inspirering. The presenters were (Angela Calcedo, Matt Thompson and Simon Ritter). The mp3 player and the Sun SPOT + looking glass integration blew the crowd away
The last presentation I got to attend was CubicTest. A fun thing there was how one developer from silenium hijacked the presentation towards the end. It was all spured by one of the two giving the talk (Christian Schwartz and Stein Kåre Skyttern) mentioned that they prefered to integrate with Watir and not Selenium due to some “problematic aspects to Selenium”.
My overall impression with JavaZone this year is that it’s getting better year by year. But maybe it’s time for JavaBin to consider if SAS Radisson has become to small. They call it madness them self that they sold 400 extra tickets. And one could tell when trying to move between the talks early in the day when the common areas got very crowded.
Also the information during the first day was sparingly. Since some talks got cancelled or moved. And little information reached us, the participants. There are screens scattered out through the hotel showing info, but most of them are 13″ screens next to the door to one auditorium, and people just ignore them. A strategy next year could be that each speaker first gives a 2 minute program update.
Information was also a problem with JavaUniversity. Hadn’t it been for a collegue that sent an email to the JavaBin comittie, and that Jason sent out a survey ahead of his training session, I wouldn’t have had any way of knowing that I had sucessfully registered for the course.
All in all I’m so far really happy with JavaZone. And I’m writing this in the back of the room while Kristoffer Dyrkorn is giving a talk on Nutch.
Tapestry 4 oddity…
Posted on September 7th, 2006 by arnljot.
Categories: java, javascript.
Just discovered that when you create an input element that is disabled in the template (disabled=”true”), then it’s ignored on submit even if it’s been enabled by client side javascript.
That’s a bug in my book
IE vs FireFox - js quirk
Posted on September 7th, 2006 by arnljot.
Categories: html, javascript.
Just discovered that FireFox version 1.5.06 doesn’t like reserved words in javascript functions
I had a radio button (input type=”radio” name=”rooms” onClick=”toggle(this);”/) which called a method with the signature “function toggle(radio)”.
This worked fine in IE 6, but in FireFox this didn’t execute at all, not even giving error messages.
Changeing the call and method signature to “onClick=’onOffShare(this);’” and “function onOffShare(room)” did the trick, and it now works in both browsers.
Seems that the lesson is to avoid potentially reserved words like “toggle” and “radio” in FireFox.