Alright. I can’t stand it any more. After hearing all the cool stuff people are doing with Dynamic Languages, I’ve just gotta jump on the bandwagon to see what all the fuss is about. I’m going to have a play with Groovy first up, cause I’m not willing to surrender the head space of going totally non Java…. or the tons of libraries that I’ve got used to over the years. I think just getting [...]

I’ve played around with Google desktop (and others) in the past and never had much success. They all slurped too much CPU, didn’t handle my OpenOffice files or PDFs, and came with interfaces that were either too simple, or far too complex. My local Aussie PC mag, PC Authority did a feature on desktop search technologies this month and gave the editor’s choice to Yahoo! Desktop. I didn’t have much luck with Google desktop, but [...]

I’ve been doing a bit of work for a client that centres around SAML & XML Signatures over a SOAP transport. I’ve done plenty of work in the SAML space before (and XML Security for that matter), but the web services angle is new. Anyways, it gave me a chance to look at the (surprisingly slim) SAML Java landscape again to see what’s hip and happening. I’ve developed stuff with Verisign TSIK (which has interestingly [...]