BadMagicNumber

Yeah, I know it’s kinda late for a post like this.

The award for oh-god-this-is-what-sharepoint-should-be: Dropbox. Also, drop.io, but dropbox has the backup problem solved, too.

The does-anyone-remember-just-how-buggy-browsers-used-to-be award: Chrome (note that Firefox is bad – just that Chrome is so amazingly good for a first release)

The year-of-linux-on-the-desktop-yes-really-this-time-well-maybe-anyway-award : Ubuntu 8.10 (it’s not perfect, but installs well, doesn’t crash, and doesn’t annoy me as much as Vista)

The this-search-shit-is-easy-anyway: Apache Solr (Solr is the first development tool where I’ve ever felt any reluctance in sharing around. It’s so good it sometimes seems to be a magic bullet)

I’ve just pushed out a release of ROME core, ROME Fetcher and ROME modules.

For those who don’t know, ROME is a (the?) Java library for handling RSS and Atom. Unlike some other libraries it is pretty stable (18 months since the last release) and has a low number of dependencies (one – JDom – if all you need is parsing)

The annoucement, including links is at https://rome.dev.java.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=2656

The thing I’m most pleased about (and the number one source of complaints about ROME) is that I’ve pushed it to the java.net Maven repository, so now it will be easier to use from Maven. Further details are at http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/RomeAndMaven2