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Check ‘em out if you’re looking for a rich Eclipse-based environment, but miss some of the bells-and-whistles that you get from something like WSAD.

XJ is another piece of genious coming out of IBM’s Alphaworks project. Its approach is like JSP for integrating *HTML and Java for integrating XML and Java… GiddieUp!

Awesome news – FCKeditor is coming to OS X Safari! Check out the big news on MacSlash.

Need to tune your driving directions? Prefer to skip major roadways or toll roads? Check out Map24.

programTransformation.org covers everything from decompilers to optimizers. Give it a look.

Yes, its true – Ajax on Rails coming to a workstation near you. This article even has backgrounder if you’re new to Ruby on Rails (getting started, Ruby aggregate). Don’t worry, Ruby even supports AOP, workflow, x-unit support, various persistence drivers (including Sleepycat Berkeley DB XML) etc…

If you’ve got a 20D, you’ve probably faced two eventualities: 1) scratched LCD and 2) fell for the POS BG-E2 battery grip. Check out the hood for $35 USD and soon, a replacement battery grip at Hoodman USA! Image: http://www.hoodmanusa.com/images/reweofije…

Sad musings.

More than just Xs and 0s. Curt Monash, back from the Text Mining Summit, takes aim at a seemingly bogus statistic: the claim that corporate data is 80% text (or 80% unstructured?) and only 20% structured/tabular. Noting that the stat probably comes fweofije…

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is the latest document pu blishing standard ratified by the XML publishing industry. Read a backgrounder from IBM. More to come as I try to figure out how this fits in with XSL-FO.