I’ve tried a lot of software packages this year for monitoring systems. I’ve seen a lot of stuff that’s easy to set up, and a lot of stuff that isn’t. I’ve tried some commercial products, I’ve tried some open ones, but not one of them does what I want. I just want a simple package [...]

At work we’re building a project using the FreeHost3270 project. It’s an open source (LGPL licensed) terminal emulator for java. I think I’ve mentioned it before on this little site of mine. Well, it appears that now I’m on the development team for the actual project. See, there’s some rather important things missing from the [...]

Answers to yesterdays rhetorical questions: What if you could write server code once, easily deploy it as a cluster, have client (web apps or desktop) connections balances across a cluster, transparently get fail-over? Have an asynchronous, state-full, type-safe protocol, Simple means to build a web front-end for existing server-code using semantics anyone with a web [...]

At least, that’s what it’s going to end up being someday if I ever finish it. I had some time today, and was able to spend some time on the Marrow MUSCLE front-controller. I slapped a Swing GUI on the server-side component, so you can keep an eye on what’s happening on the server-node end [...]