Seemant's Entries in Category: Platforms

Am I harsh? I don't think I am: I am just calling it how I see it. And, I certainly mean no offense by anything I say. I thought initially to just respond to the comments in my last blog, but as you can see, I had a lot more to say on the subject: enough to warrant a new post. So here it is. Apparently, at least a couple of people believe Gentoo to be a User ...

Apparently, some people who read my original XMMS post took away from it a conclusion that I had not made. To boot, these people have hung those conclusions around Diego's neck. Even the fact that the forums thread on the subject has gone on for 14 pages astounds me. I even know of at least one person who has written of the entire Gentoo distribution based on that package removal. So let's stop with the nonsense for ...

Well, as promised, StreamBase is starting to get even more developer-friendly. I'm sure some of you have seen the new and improved DevZone (notice the sane URL :) ). Well, now in the add-ons downloads section, we have put up a Java Toolkit for Eclipse. Now, to be sure, this is not the StreamBase studio, which is a separate download. Instead, this little ditty makes it easy for your java developers to build up custom operators, ...

I remember xmms as well. I used to use it a lot. In fact, it used to be one of my favourite applications. I was even friends with one of the upstream devs (I used to maintain Gentoo's ebuild for it for a while). Well, two years ago or so, upstream decided that the xmms2 project was sexier. I even got a glimpse of an early version of xmms2, and I was slightly less than impressed. For one, they ...

That's what I learned this week at the training: StreamBase is a platform. That's right, behind the registrations and logins and all that (more on that in a later post), you get to discover an IDE that's easily the best IDE I've seen for event processing (in a very generalised way, a lot of GUI builders are event processing builders). Here you have an interface that basically gives you true drag-and-drop functionality to let you create powerful applications. Not only ...

You know, one of the things that has maybe gotten lost sight of in the past few years in Gentoo is: what exactly is Gentoo, anyway? Is it a distro? Is it a meta-distro? What the hell is a meta-distro anyway? So, I've been playing with Django a lot lately. And that obviously makes people think of Ruby on Rails for some reason. But here's the point: django and ruby are frameworks that allow me to build what ...