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Daily del.icio.us for May 4th through May 7th

by Vinny Carpenter on May 7, 2008

  • People Over Process » A Roadmap for JavaFX - Adobe’s Beat Them By a Week, But So What? - JavaOne 2008 - The fact that Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, and others are all racing towards the same end should be encouraging, not frustrating. Getting preempted by a week with, basically, the same sort of announcement is meaningless in the grand scheme of things
  • JavaFX’s day in the Sun | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com - JavaFX has a LONG way to go especially when you look at Adobe’s RIA strengths and Microsoft’s very enthusiastic entry into the space. But I think JavaFX will be a breath of fresh air for people and will help in expanding the RIA footprint further
  • Java platform to get modularity, OSGi support | InfoWorld | News | 2008-05-07 | By Paul Krill - Upcoming versions of the Java platform will be fitted with capabilities such as flexibility, OSGi support, and modularity, Sun Microsystems officials said Tuesday afternoon at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
  • Dell Expands Virtualization Offerings - Dell is adding to its virtualization portfolio by embedding Citrix XenServer into its hardware and expanding its services for customers investing in the technology.
  • Andy Kessler: WSJ: The War for the Web - The continuing battle between Microsoft and Google will mean fierce competition – adding features, building data centers, cutting deals and spending money on speed and customer convenience
  • Archiva - The Build Artifact Repository Manager - Apache Archiva is an extensible repository management software that helps taking care of your own personal or enterprise-wide build artifact repository. It is the perfect companion for build tools such as Maven, Continuum, and ANT.
  • JavaOne 2008: Day One (So Far) - JavaOne 2008 Day One has started, of course, and it's an interesting show, with a lot of undercurrents about JavaFX (as expected) and multimedia - and mobile applications. There's a lot more, of course, and this thread is meant for people to add comments
  • The day the music died [dive into mark] - This is a letter I sent to my father to explain what it means that Microsoft is pulling support for MSN Music. Tech issues like this often bubble up into the media that he reads, but they are rarely explained well. My father assumes I have an opinion on s
  • Amazon Now Serving OpenSolaris on EC2 - GigaOM - Sun’s OpenSolaris OS will be available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers for free. It is in beta for now. Sun will provide premium technical support for MySQL database running on Linux and Amazon EC2.
  • Julien Lecomte’s Blog » JavaScript: The Good Parts - In JavaScript: The Good Parts, Douglas extensively describes that good subset of the JavaScript language, occasionally warning to avoid the bad. I consider Douglas’ book a must-buy for anybody who’s serious about developing professional apps for the w
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iTunes & Ehcache - You figure it out

by Vinny Carpenter on April 5, 2008

Thanks to Greg Luck, I discovered something new in iTunes called My iTunes that lets you export your purchases out as RSS or as a widget to display on your website. Check out a sample of my purchases below - With DRM free music from Amazon, I'm not buying anything from iTunes that's available on Amazon. By the way, Greg Luck is one of the lead developers of Ehcache, which IMHO is the best and most widely used Java distributed caching framework.

 

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Daily del.icio.us for March 27th through April 3rd

by Vinny Carpenter on April 4, 2008

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Eric Clapton Looks Back at His Blues Roots

by Vinny Carpenter on October 17, 2007

Just heard a interview with Eric Clapton on NPR where he talked about his musical influences as a young man with Melissa Block, which got me in the mood for some Clapton.

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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 03, 2007

by Vinny Carpenter on April 3, 2007

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U2 is the BEST band in the world

by Vinny Carpenter on November 23, 2006

U2 is back with U218 Singles, which is a best-of CD with all of their hits including two newer songs: 'The Saints Are Coming' that was a collaboration with Green Day and a new song, 'Windows in the Skies'.

Here is the video for 'With or Without You' from the Vertigo '05 Live from Milan DVD

Amazon has the same video on their site as well from the same DVD. The Amazon version of the video also has a clip of 'Original of the Species' in addition to 'With or Without You'.

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DVR Alert - U2 Vertigo 2005 Tour: Live from Chicago on HDNet

by Vinny Carpenter on January 29, 2006

I guess the title above says it all - Set your VCR, DVR, PC-DVR or Media Center PC to record U2 in High definition. Director Hamish Hamilton gives you a front row seat for all the excitement from the sold out Vertigo tour. Vertigo//2005 features electric performances of songs drawn from across the band's entire career. Featuring the hits "Vertigo", "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own", "One", and "The Streets Have No Name".

There are several replays of this concert on HDNet - Check the schedule here.

dvr, hd, u2, music, concert, live

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Coldplay on Austin City Limits

by Vinny Carpenter on December 18, 2005

I just saw Coldplay on PBS's Austin City Limits and they delivered an awesome show. Every since I found out about the taping via Coldplay's mailing list, I had set every DVR in my house to take tape the show. Watching the hour-long concert in HD was awesome.

The show was very intimate and Chris Martin and gang did an impromptu tribute to Johnny Cash in the middle of the show. Then they brought out Michael Stipe (REM) as a special guest and they did 2 songs including REM's Nightswimming, which Chris Martin called the greatest song ever written. He had some pretty funny banter through out the show. The funniest line was when he was introducing Michael Stipe – Chris said that they called Michael Bolton and he couldn't make it and so they settled for Michael Stipe. It was funny – You had to be there.

The hour-long set was pretty standard with a mix of old and new with 'Fix You' closing out the set. Check out the ACL website for pictures and some behind-the-scene stuff including interviews.

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Coldplay, NPR, Austin City Limits, ACL, music, PBS, HDTV, REM, Michael Stipe

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The Best Album of 2005

by Vinny Carpenter on July 2, 2005

X&Y by Coldplay The hyperbole around Coldplay's latest offering is just incredible. There are people calling them the biggest band in the world and comparing them to super groups like U2 and others. I don't about any of that but this has to be the best album of the year.

X&Y is an absolutely brilliant album that is bound to be an instant classic. I am so hooked to this album that I haven't stopped listening to this album since the very first day of it's release on iTunes. All of the songs are incredibly melodic, catchy and bound to be instant classics. The first single, Square One is a great song but it's just the beginning, as what follows it even gets better. Chris Martin is just an incredible songwriter and the other members of the band are great musicians.

I read a review where the reviewer called the music on this album as 'silent screaming' and I think that's is really an apt description. The album just has a huge wall of sound that's really loud without sounding like Metallica. This is a loud, rocking album with incredible guitar work that is bound to have you hooked from the first listen.

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Metallica Live

by on May 24, 2004

This is just awesome. Metallica is now offering downloads of their live shows, for a price @ http://www.livemetallica.com/. The first leg of the North American tour of 34 cities is now available for download as an MP3 or FLAC file.

Just purchased the 03/08/04 Cow Palace San Francisco, CA show - Downloading as we speak.

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