Craig Andrews 25 conexiones

Microblogging inside the Firewall

Cross posted to Molecular Voices. Please comment there.
Little strings of text are big business – both publicly and inside the corporate firewall. As we all know, Twitter is pretty big – TV and radio ads for major companies mention their Twitter sites and even business cards reference... more »

Microblogging inside the Firewall

Little strings of text are big business – both publicly and inside the corporate firewall. As we all know, Twitter is pretty big – TV and radio ads for major companies mention their Twitter sites and even business cards reference Twitter URLs nowadays. But Twitter cannot be used with... more »

Running Ubuntu in VMWare

VMWare is a leading (if not the leading) virtualization solution. Unfortunately, it is also proprietary software, which means that distributions tend not to care too much about it (and in my opinion, rightfully so!).
My employer is one such company that uses VMWare, and it recently instituted a... more »

oEmbed

oEmbed is a relatively simple concept, which can be basically thought of as hyperlinking to the next level. According to oembed.com: “oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as... more »

oEmbed

oEmbed is a relatively simple concept, which can be basically thought of as hyperlinking to the next level. According to oembed.com: “oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as... more »

Install JBoss 4.2 on Centos/RHEL 5

I was recently tasked with installing JBoss 4.2 on Centos/RHEL 5. I found the experience remarkably difficult, so I figured I should share it for my own future reference, and hopefully to also save the sanity of whatever other poor souls are tasked with the same project.

Start off with RHEL 5 or... more »