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Daily Rumblings

May 24th, 2001

Work, work, work. The “Secret Project” is rooling, we are finaly near the part in which real functionality starts kicking in, this starts to be the fun part I like it.

My Psion is broke, the nearest technicall center is in Budapest, and the reparation would be quite expensive, so I decided to try something different, an Handspring Visor Deluxe the Ice model. Initialy I wanted the Platinum model, but I forgot that I’m in Romania and there seems to be no Platinums in stock in Eastern Europe :(

Seems that the client side of the web is quite resistant. When Sun first came with the Java language they where mostly thinking at applets, time and market decided that Java is for servers. The same thing happened with the XML. The initiall creators where, again, having in ming the client part of the Web, yet everybody is using it on the server side. I’m just curious for what will use peoples my next product, which for now is secret but like usualy is great and OpenSource.

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Daily Rumblings

May 12th, 2001

I like it! There is at least one thing that I learned, if you really want to learn something, go to the source (of knowledge). Let the ones who live it tell you the story, not the ones who learned it.

Somehow related, I was trying to clarify a few things related to how class loaders work, and how are related to security. I lost a couple of days reading lot’s of stupid documents which left more questions the answers, till I found one document and a email, which made it all clear. The best material is always hidden.

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Applet Problems

October 9th, 2000

Spent my weekend with some RUE bug fixes, the patch version 0.52 it’s on it’s way.

Spent my week trying to solve the “certificate” problem for signing RUE (being able to run as applet in Netscape). I just start to hate more and more those Netscape guys, I don’t know why are standards for if nobody respects them. Neither Microsoft does but at least in IE I can completely deactivate the security and run RUE. I just had to insert all over RUE special code just for Netscape-applet mode, when rue is mainly intended as an application, I really hate doing that. But the problems does not stop here. Now Netscape does not trust the Sun packages like jndi.jar and rmiregistry.jar, because are not signed. The ugly part is that I either force the user to consider all the classes signed (case in which I don’t need a signed version of RUE, off course that if it finds one signed jar will not work, don’t you love Netscape). The second solution would be to sign jndi & rmiregistry jar’s which I don’t know if I’m allowed to do.

About Netscape and test certificates after a very frustrating week I finally managed to hack a method to produce X509 test certificates for Netscape valid for as long as I want. And I’m sure I will write it down in the next day’s just to make the life easier for others who might have the same problem.

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JMX

September 6th, 2000

Lucky me I posted the monitor API initiative on Javalobby, otherwise who knows when I was to find about the JMX (Java Management Extension). I don’t know but i have the feeling that there is so much happening on Java, it’s very hard to get the news to people. The JMX was started basically at the end of 99, and when i started RUE (march 200), I’m sure I’ve been looking all over the Internet for something like that and I found nothing.

By the way I took a little vacation and I did a little face lift to this site, hope you like it. Also another news is that my sound card is working finally with SMP. After the “reorganization” of Aureal i was really concern that I will never get the drivers with SMP support but thanks to a few great hackers, a new project started at sourceforge. Yes its aureal.sourceforge.net, and those guys did a lot. That’s why I love open source.

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