So today I embedded my first instance of the “Cool Wall” from CoolIris, now re-packaged as “LiveShare”. I’ve known about CoolIris for some time – it’s a great plugin for showcasing your photos. Until now, I’d always used it in the context of browsing. You go to a page that has images, press the “CoolIris” [...]

So I’ve just finished a stint of coding (a rarity nowadays) where I’ve been adding some capabilities to our platform based on OSGi (we’re running on Apache Servicemix, running Apache Felix, under the covers). The drivers behind the coding were to address requirements we had to support a more “tiered” configuration structure to the one [...]

So I’ve just spent about an hour reading an uber-discussion from forum feedback based on the release of Apache Apollo v1.0 — the next generation of messaging broker based on ActiveMQ. For those that aren’t familiar, Apollo is currently a sub-project of ActiveMQ, simply because the approach used is a radical departure from the way [...]

I’ve had a fascination with space from a very early age, thanks to a healthy appetite for reading and TV/Movie shows that featured space (Doctor Who, Thunderbirds, Terrahawks, Star Wars, etc. etc.). Two of my earliest serious memories of space were (1) a space pop-up book with moving galaxies, a pop-up telescope, and many other [...]