Recent blog entries for mettw

Well, we've finally got the first public release of dbXML-Core out. You can download it from Sourceforge or check out the home page at the dbXML Group web site.

For those who don't know, dbXML is a pure Java database/application server written specifically for handling XML. It's licensed under the LGPL.

Dancer

I've always found it rather amusing that the prime minister should use the term un-australian so much. Because whenever I think of what the average Australian man is like, John Howard with his brown corduroy pants and Marx brothers laugh is hardly the image that comes to mind 8)

Words that should be in the Jargon File but aren't...

Raymondism: The deluded belief that free software defies Brooks' law, has fewer security exploits than non-free software and that just because thousands of people have access to the source code those same thousands of people will actually examine it.

Slashdot Affect: A form of depression that occurs when seeing a perfectly sensible post at slashdot be moderated down simply because it doesn't comform to the ideology of the herd.

Grab a copy of esr's Ethics from the barrel of a gun and run the following sed script on it:

     sed -e s/[gG]un/Penis/g -e s/[bB]ear/Dangl/g 
        -e s/[aA]rms/Phaluses/g -es/[tT]rigger/Glans/g
       gun-ethics.html > penis-ethics.html

 

It's the funniest thing you'll read all day. You can see a copy of it at my web site.