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OK, so how do I need to set up my java to download it? It's giving me....


An error occurred while launching/running the application.

Title: Columba
Vendor: Free Software (MPL1.1)
Category: Download Error

Found unsigned entry in resource: http://columba.sourceforge.net/webstart/columba.ja r

My biggest gripe is that some of the relly good programs have names like this.

(Try selling that one to a manager just on your force of argument without using the acronym DCL instead of the full name!)

I'm not sure why someone would post a bug report here instead of in the correct place (i.e. the project's bug tracker!); but, at any rate, it's a known bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=1214931&group_id=21217&atid=121217 (remove space in url)

Congrats! Looks like the boss sees dynamism in you - give it your best effort, but be realistic and don't be afraid to ask money to implement an effective solution.

EDI can be mind-numbing. You'll need attention to detail, clear headed thinking, very good and very tightly controlled documentation, and a well thought out and documented processes for new EDI-partner implementation and existing-partner transitions.

For software, try getting something that simplifies life as much as possible. If your company is willing to spend a fair bit consider buying an off-the-shelf solutions.

webmethods: http://www.webmethods.com/ is a good solution. I've been using it for 5 years at work. It's got a good name since lots of people have had success with implementing EDI with it. The best open-to-the-public webMethods user website is http://wmusers.com/ - even if you don't use webMethods, searching that site for terms like "X.12" and "EDIFACT" will give you a sense of how others implement EDI. Here's an article by a friend of mine: "Create Positional Flat File Templates for the WmEDI Parser"
http://www.wmusers.com/ezine/2003apr_rmoser_1.shtm l
Note, this article is for ver 4.6 - I understand the current version of webMethods (ver 6.5) has a different, graphical, EDI parsing engine. Other articles:
http://www.wmusers.com/ezine/archives.shtml

The good thing about webMethods is it's got a visual-progamming IDE that simplifies life a great deal, and that it's really a webservices/XML-centric solution that also handles EDI - so in future, you can move forward to cXML, xCBL, ebXML, etc, which are XML-centric standards. (For the respective websites just append .org to these names). They also have support for stuff like RosettaNet and RFID, but I'm not familiar with the specifics.

The one thing webMethods does not do well is FTP file spooling for pickup - it does built-in FTP clients and an FTP server (can only submit documents to it), plus VAN and SFTP support. For FTP spooling, you'll need to run a separate FTP server.

webMethods competitors include TIBCO, Commerceone (conductor), Microsoft (with Biztalk), IBM and BEA (not sure what). There are also the old distinguished EDI translators like GenTran.

Google shows up a couple of open-source solutions as well:
http://edi4j.sourceforge.net/
http://mec-eagle.sourceforge.net/

Hm, maybe I should do a sourceforge search. Aha, quite a few matches:
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft &words=edi&imageField.x=0&imageField.y=0
Don't know how good these are though. If you evaluate them, try posting back here if you can.

Whatever solution you choose, when you do build a solution, try making a 3-layer
solution, with a middle layer of canonical data structures isolating the B2B/EDI standard from your backend-system standard. For eg: as mentioned in my article here:
http://www.wmusers.com/ezine/2002jul15_schauhan_1. shtml

Also, no matter how well you implement a standard, you'll always come across situations where you need to customize a B2B/EDI implementation because your trading partner sees the standard differently than you do - try building an architecture that enables easy customizations. Also it's important to implement automated integration and system testing (most people only try and automate unit testing) - as you build functionality, keep adding tests to your test suite.

Congrats! Looks like the boss sees dynamism in you - give it your best effort, but be realistic and don't be afraid to ask money to implement an effective solution.

EDI can be mind-numbing. You'll need attention to detail, clear headed thinking, very good and very tightly controlled documentation, and a well thought out and documented processes for new EDI-partner implementation and existing-partner transitions.

For software, try getting something that simplifies life as much as possible. If your company is willing to spend a fair bit consider buying an off-the-shelf solutions.

webmethods: http://www.webmethods.com/ is a good solution. I've been using it for 5 years at work. It's got a good name since lots of people have had success with implementing EDI with it. The best open-to-the-public webMethods user website is http://wmusers.com/ - even if you don't use webMethods, searching that site for terms like "X.12" and "EDIFACT" will give you a sense of how others implement EDI. Here's an article by a friend of mine: "Create Positional Flat File Templates for the WmEDI Parser"
http://www.wmusers.com/ezine/2003apr_rmoser_1.shtm l
Note, this article is for ver 4.6 - I understand the current version of webMethods (ver 6.5) has a different, graphical, EDI parsing engine. Other articles:
http://www.wmusers.com/ezine/archives.shtml

The good thing about webMethods is it's got a visual-progamming IDE that simplifies life a great deal, and that it's really a webservices/XML-centric solution that also handles EDI - so in future, you can move forward to cXML, xCBL, ebXML, etc, which are XML-centric standards. (For the respective websites just append .org to these names). They also have support for stuff like RosettaNet and RFID, but I'm not familiar with the specifics.

The one thing webMethods does not do well is FTP file spooling for pickup - it does built-in FTP clients and an FTP server (can only submit documents to it), plus VAN and SFTP support. For FTP spooling, you'll need to run a separate FTP server.

webMethods competitors include TIBCO, Commerceone (conductor), Microsoft (with Biztalk), IBM and BEA (not sure what). There are also the old distinguished EDI translators like GenTran.

Google shows up a couple of open-source solutions as well:
http://edi4j.sourceforge.net/
http://mec-eagle.sourceforge.net/

Hm, maybe I should do a sourceforge search. Aha, quite a few matches:
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft &words=edi&imageField.x=0&imageField.y=0
Don't know how good these are though. If you evaluate them, try posting back here if you can.

Whatever solution you choose, when you do build a solution, try making a 3-layer
solution, with a middle layer of canonical data structures isolating the B2B/EDI standard from your backend-system standard. For eg: as mentioned in my article here:
http://www.wmusers.com/ezine/2002jul15_schauhan_1. shtml

Also, no matter how well you implement a standard, you'll always come across situations where you need to customize a B2B/EDI implementation because your trading partner sees the standard differently than you do - try building an architecture that enables easy customizations. Also it's important to implement automated integration and system testing (most people only try and automate unit testing) - as you build functionality, keep adding tests to your test suite.

Congrats! Looks like the boss sees dynamism in you - give it your best effort, but be realistic and don't be afraid to ask money to implement an effective solution.

EDI can be mind-numbing. You'll need attention to detail, clear headed thinking, very good and very tightly controlled documentation, and a well thought out and documented processes for new EDI-partner implementation and existing-partner transitions.

For software, try getting something that simplifies life as much as possible. If your company is willing to spend a fair bit consider buying an off-the-shelf solutions.

webmethods: http://www.webmethods.com/ is a good solution. I've been using it for 5 years at work. It's got a good name since lots of people have had success with implementing EDI with it. The best open-to-the-public webMethods user website is http://wmusers.com/ - even if you don't use webMethods, searching that site for terms like "X.12" and "EDIFACT" will give you a sense of how others implement EDI. Here's an article by a friend of mine: "Create Positional Flat File Templates for the WmEDI Parser"
http://www.wmusers.com/ezine/2003apr_rmoser_1.shtm l
Note, this article is for ver 4.6 - I understand the current version of webMethods (ver 6.5) has a different, graphical, EDI parsing engine. Other articles:
http://www.wmusers.com/ezine/archives.shtml

The good thing about webMethods is it's got a visual-progamming IDE that simplifies life a great deal, and that it's really a webservices/XML-centric solution that also handles EDI - so in future, you can move forward to cXML, xCBL, ebXML, etc, which are XML-centric standards. (For the respective websites just append .org to these names). They also have support for stuff like RosettaNet and RFID, but I'm not familiar with the specifics.

The one thing webMethods does not do well is FTP file spooling for pickup - it does built-in FTP clients and an FTP server (can only submit documents to it), plus VAN and SFTP support. For FTP spooling, you'll need to run a separate FTP server.

webMethods competitors include TIBCO, Commerceone (conductor), Microsoft (with Biztalk), IBM and BEA (not sure what). There are also the old distinguished EDI translators like GenTran.

Google shows up a couple of open-source solutions as well:
http://edi4j.sourceforge.net/
http://mec-eagle.sourceforge.net/

Hm, maybe I should do a sourceforge search. Aha, quite a few matches:
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft &words=edi&imageField.x=0&imageField.y=0
Don't know how good these are though. If you evaluate them, try posting back here if you can.

Whatever solution you choose, when you do build a solution, try making a 3-layer
solution, with a middle layer of canonical data structures isolating the B2B/EDI standard from your backend-system standard. For eg: as mentioned in my article here:
http://www.wmusers.com/ezine/2002jul15_schauhan_1. shtml

Also, no matter how well you implement a standard, you'll always come across situations where you need to customize a B2B/EDI implementation because your trading partner sees the standard differently than you do - try building an architecture that enables easy customizations. Also it's important to implement automated integration and system testing (most people only try and automate unit testing) - as you build functionality, keep adding tests to your test suite.

Toontown Online uses plain Python. http://www.toontownonline.com/ (IE only)

It uses the open-source multi-platform Panda3D http://panda3d.org/ engine.

And the SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/panda3d/ link, the Helix community https://panda3d.helixcommunity.org/, etc.

Works pretty well, 10K+ players.

FWIW, it's also trivial to do the same thing under Eclipse using PyDev. Mark a block of text, then hit tab or shift-tab to indent/unindent. If you're an Emacs user, turn on Eclipse's built-in Emacs keybinding set and it's home away from home...

I've been using virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/ I found it better than powertoys.

As part of Google's Summer of Code, someone with much code-fu has released the initial version of a Python-to-C++ converter.

Check it out:

http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/shedskin/

"Dear Member,

The majority of the Methlabs.org administration and development team have been forced out of their website following a series of threats and incidents. The member of the group that had been trusted to handle the finances and servers slowly managed to take over each individual part of the web site's assets, eventually claiming control over the entire group and locking out the majority of staff.

The organisation's founders, Tim Leonard and Ken McKelland, as well as the majority of the organisation's staff and developers (including the main developer of the PeerGuardian2 application, Cory Nelson and the staff members responsible for auditing the PeerGuardian Blocklists) have all been forcibly removed from the servers that were funded from donations given to the organisation by happy users, and from text advertising placed on the websites forum and project pages.

The money, which was to have been used to help fund the development and hosting costs of the group is now unavailable, stolen by the one who was trusted to keep it.

Development of PeerGuardian will resume, and the website will temporarily move to http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/ until a new domain is registered and a new server found. The intention of the group is to register a non-profit organisation to handle the development of Methlabs applications and to promote open source projects that aid both security, privacy and peer-to-peer technologies, in order to prevent a repeat of this incident.

The team wish all their users the best through this difficult time, but promise that development will continue. Please visit http://peerguardian.sf.net/ for news as we make progress. All other sites, including http://methlabs.org/ and http://blocklist.org/ are under control of the rogue member and should not be trusted for safe updates to our applications or lists.

A new build of PeerGuardian will be released soon to reflect these changes. Until then we ask you to continue using Beta 6a but with caution as the update servers are no longer under our control.

All staff are available in irc.freenode.net, channel #methlabs if you wish to chat.

Thanks, The Methlabs Staff (looking for a new home) -----

Adam Hoier, Cory Nelson, Eric Mayuk, Fox Lowe, James Shanelec, Joseph Farthing, Ken McKelland, Steffen Tuzar, Tim Leonard

aka

braindancer, D3F, fox, FuRiOuS1, JFM, KuKIE, method, phrosty, r00ted"

Actually Python supports restricted execution. This browser Grail is writen in Python and supports Python applets that run securely with rexec. As for the Python used in games matter I suggest my article about it. The use of Python in games is discussed along with some things that are only possible with Python.

Ugh, nothing but gaim with meanwhile for me:
http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/plugins/
(The plugin to interface with the IBM employee directory is nice thing to find on the internal web). NotesBuddy is just another piece of Windows crap.

Now if they could only give me a way to read my friggin' mail under linux without wine, and, even more importantly, without notes.

You know, at least one person posts on every slashdot article about Firefox that they won't use Firefox because it doesn't come in an MSI package.

Well, as has been pointed out numerous times over the months, the first hit on Google for "Firefox MSI package" is:
http://msi-repository.sourceforge.net/

Where you can get thunderbird and firefox MSI packages of the current stable release.

First and formost are the crashes, I mean come on some times I only get 20 or 30 minutes of work in and it crashes.

Have you considered purchasing a new computer? ;-)

I've had The GIMP 2.2.6 running for weeks on end on my iBook. The only things that will stop it are me quitting it for a reboot because of a system update, or Mac OS X hard-crashing*. Otherwise, it's now very solid.

It used to be a bit crashy when using the text tool, but I haven't seen that one for a while, possibly since I upgraded to Tiger...

(* Celestia still does that if I don't disable a lot of OpenGL features, I got a kernel panic when using the modem once, and it didn't resume when I closed the machine up while compiling a gigantic panorama in Hugin and enblend. Oops!)

I don't know why anyone else hasn't brought it up
I have on my desk 6 monitors, plus one machine runs to the tv in the lounge, using synergy I can have my g4 desktop machine, my 17" powerbook, a linux box and a windows box, all with one nice keyboard and one nice mouse in the middle of the desk.
Also synergy also deals with copying (text based) things around the clip boards which has proved to be amazing!
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

> It's just a pity that it is almost impossible to find out what all the short cuts are.

Maybe this helps:

http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/shortcuts.htm l

Is there the need for yet another XML format when for describing vectorial web interfaces SVG does a very good job? Oh, wait, this is Microsoft we are talking about. And they are really commited to screwing^H^H^H^H^H^H tandards.

The only problems with SVG were the lack of development tools and browser support, and the second is starting to fade away quickly. So, I would suggest everyone interested in evading Microsoft's lock-in to have a look at the existing tools, and maybe lend us a hand.

Version 2 is only in CVS, but releases of version 1 can be downloaded

Remember there's an open source Flash player, called GplFlash,. It appeared a few months ago in another slashdot article. However, it's only available via CVS (yet).

If you are looking a Eclipse (more overhead than I prefer) you should also look at hyperModel along with the XML plugins. Only free GUI Schema borwser/editor I've found.

If you are looking a Eclipse (more overhead than I prefer) you should also look at hyperModel along with the XML plugins. Only free GUI Schema borwser/editor I've found.

I do something similar, 2 Linux PCs (one is the central fileserver), one Windows PC, and one Mac.

But also, you can throw additional monitors into the mix (each connect to different computers) and use Synergy2 to go from one to another using your mouse (also the clipboard gets transfered between machines).

Search for IDE's based on the Scintilla control. It supports syntax highlighting and code folding for numerous languages (more than 70 IIRC), and is cross-platform. the wxWiki has some info on IDE's, too.

I personally use the Quantum plugin. Pretty decent, although I do purely cross db development, so I have not looked at what specific oracle features it supports (I doubt any since it is straight jdbc).

Open Source Artificial Intelligence requires a clunker old computer that can run Java, JavaScript, Forth and so on -- that's all.

The Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) has a slight advantage with some good beaches nearby.

The MIT AI Lab has a lot of old AI curmudgeons to confab with.

The German AI Institute -- davor schreckt man zurueck.

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence does the scutwork of informing the world population about what the Mentifex AI Lab is quietly, inexorably doing.

True AI is here.

Open Source Artificial Intelligence requires a clunker old computer that can run Java, JavaScript, Forth and so on -- that's all.

The Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) has a slight advantage with some good beaches nearby.

The MIT AI Lab has a lot of old AI curmudgeons to confab with.

The German AI Institute -- davor schreckt man zurueck.

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence does the scutwork of informing the world population about what the Mentifex AI Lab is quietly, inexorably doing.

True AI is here.

like kylegordon says, Poptop is directly compatible with Microsoft VPN.

It's of moderate difficult to setup, but once its done it just works.

It's actually remarkably easy to setup a PPP server on Linux, if you know where to look :)

This might help you start:
http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/howto1.html

You may want to check your own configuration and the status of any proxies between your machine and slashdot.

My live bookmark points to: http://slashdot.org/index.rss

It's been working for me all week.

By the way, the correct place to report that isn't in the middle of the forum but the "Bugs" link that's available in the side bar.

While we wait for this to come true, we can play to the original with scummvm!

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Superb hosting 4800MB Storage, 120GB bandwidth, $7,95.
Kunowalls!!! Random sexy wallpapers (NSFW!).

Just use swaret to upgrade your box to either 10.2 or current. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

This article makes a great point (for homeowners). You may want to think about investing in reducing energy costs in your house, rather than investing in your transportation (anyway, a car is not an investment; a house is). There may be a larger payback for you - more bang for the buck if you mod your house.

Okay, I'll grant that the SD card interface may be a poor one, but the same holds true for every other solid-state interface I've used--CF, SmartMedia, Sony's little Memory Stick thing, and USB2 (High-speed) flash devices. (FWIW, I recall similarly poor results when I was doing R&D with a solid-state disk on 2.5" IDE, but that was a few years ago so things may well have changed in the meantime, and speed wasn't important for the particular application so I never took down numbers.) I am of course aware of the seek issue, and I'll agree that for a server that accesses lots of different files randomly seek time can become a factor; when I wrote my reply, dumps of large, relatively contiguous data streams (e.g. MP3 files) were on my mind, and even a 20ms seek time is only a small fraction of the time it takes to actually get the data off the device, so sustained transfer rates really do make a difference. But I suppose I'll keep an eye out for how they progress.

Incidentally, the speed tests in my original reply were done with hdparm, which tries hard to keep system overhead from affecting the measured transfer rate. As it turns out, I was misrunning it, since it seems to support O_DIRECT now (previous versions used the cached read timings to adjust for buffering), but since the data read from the disk wasn't in memory in the first place anyway, buffering can't have sped it up--the data has to come off the disk one way or another. For the record, I just re-ran the tests with --direct, and got the same results +/- 1%.

This one claims 44MB/s sustained writing - considerably more than whatever your buffer-obscured HD is actually capable of, I'll wager.

Let's see:

# hdparm --direct -t /dev/hda (ATA100 HD)
/dev/hda:
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 134 MB in 3.04 seconds = 44.14 MB/sec

Whaddya know?

you check the require all words option

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft &exact=1&forum_id=280640&group_id=82185&atid=0&wor ds=english+grammar&Search=Search

The webpage for Queequeg gives a good overview that the sourceforge project page lacks (and the link on the sourceforge page to their webpage is for a non-english index).

The sourceforge link in the summary didn't require all words in the search. Requiring BOTH 'english' and 'grammar' yielded a few interesting projects:

Queequeg, an English grammar checker for non-native English speakers

LanguageTool, an Open Source language checker for the English and German language.

graviax, Grammar rules (XML files containing regular expressions) and grammar checker.

Yes, they are even less developed than commercial alternatives. But they are all interesting starts...

The sourceforge link in the summary didn't require all words in the search. Requiring BOTH 'english' and 'grammar' yielded a few interesting projects:

Queequeg, an English grammar checker for non-native English speakers

LanguageTool, an Open Source language checker for the English and German language.

graviax, Grammar rules (XML files containing regular expressions) and grammar checker.

Yes, they are even less developed than commercial alternatives. But they are all interesting starts...

"Folk who bring libel suits often have something to hide. Robert Maxwell successfully supressed criticism of his theft-in-progress of the Mirror group pension fund using libel writs."

I agree that libel suits can mean someone has something to hide and if that is the case then they should be fought against and people fighting against them should be encouraged and supported.

Another possibility of being able to comment without being sued into submission is Freenet. Although I don't like the idea of hiding, for some people who cannot afford a lawsuit this maybe a viable option.

The internet hasn't been free as in speech for a long time now. If only there were a Freenet...

I know, that nothing comes close to Ableton Live, but I like the combination of seq24, ZynAddSubFX and LinuxSampler. I haven't tried FreeWheeling so far, but it looks very interesting. Absolutely not comparable to Live, but a very interesting approach.

I know, that nothing comes close to Ableton Live, but I like the combination of seq24, ZynAddSubFX and LinuxSampler. I haven't tried FreeWheeling so far, but it looks very interesting. Absolutely not comparable to Live, but a very interesting approach.

For those who don't want to deal with wondering what TiVo will take from them next, but also don't want the hassle of building your own MythTV box, there is an alternative .

We are still very happy with our ReplayTV 54xx series (which is still available in some places, incuding eBAY, but have ben replaced by the 55xx series after Denon/Marantz Holdings bought ReplatTV from the failed SonicBlue.) A lot of people avoided these and went for TiVo a few years back because SonicBlue's future was uncertain. It's been a pleasure to find that Denon/Marantz has kept all of the existing features on old models, only removed auto-commercial skip from the new models, reduced the monthly guide fee, and actually improved on SonicBlue's already pretty good customer service.

A ReplayTV has all of the Tivo features except advertisements, control flags, and predicting what you want to record. Instead you can fully control what it records and when, using simple "themes" or search words that also will avoid re-runs for you. Plus, a Replay includes automatic commercial skip (no need to press any button, it detects and omits commercials -- or not if you disable that feature,) 30-second skip without a hack, and most importantly open source apps for getting recordings off the replay (no way for them to stop or limit this!,) sharing them over the net or LAN, full remote control, scheduling, or even making your own guide service. Plus the monthly subscription is cheaper ($0 if you make your own guide.)

MythTV is cool, but it's not a good solution for my parents or grandparents. ReplayTV is.

For those who don't want to deal with wondering what TiVo will take from them next, but also don't want the hassle of building your own MythTV box, there is an alternative .

We are still very happy with our ReplayTV 54xx series (which is still available in some places, incuding eBAY, but have ben replaced by the 55xx series after Denon/Marantz Holdings bought ReplatTV from the failed SonicBlue.) A lot of people avoided these and went for TiVo a few years back because SonicBlue's future was uncertain. It's been a pleasure to find that Denon/Marantz has kept all of the existing features on old models, only removed auto-commercial skip from the new models, reduced the monthly guide fee, and actually improved on SonicBlue's already pretty good customer service.

A ReplayTV has all of the Tivo features except advertisements, control flags, and predicting what you want to record. Instead you can fully control what it records and when, using simple "themes" or search words that also will avoid re-runs for you. Plus, a Replay includes automatic commercial skip (no need to press any button, it detects and omits commercials -- or not if you disable that feature,) 30-second skip without a hack, and most importantly open source apps for getting recordings off the replay (no way for them to stop or limit this!,) sharing them over the net or LAN, full remote control, scheduling, or even making your own guide service. Plus the monthly subscription is cheaper ($0 if you make your own guide.)

MythTV is cool, but it's not a good solution for my parents or grandparents. ReplayTV is.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xgridagent-java/

Look http://asdfasfdasfasfasfdasfd.sourceforge.net/ or http://qwerqwerqwerqwer.sourceforge.net/

uk.com isn't a TLD, so who cares. Why do you want a ?.uk.com domain anyway?

Look http://asdfasfdasfasfasfdasfd.sourceforge.net/ or http://qwerqwerqwerqwer.sourceforge.net/

uk.com isn't a TLD, so who cares. Why do you want a ?.uk.com domain anyway?

Snippy.

I've done BOTH too... I've coded my high school's 10 year reunion site in PHP and I've coded a major portal in Java.

To say that you don't "need an IDE" is great. I can use vi to code my stuff to. The point is, it is NICE to have. It is nice to be able to debug stack traces, it is nice to be able to change variables and see the effects. It's nicer to debug code this way than it is to drop variables in HTML to see what they're set to in the execution.

And, as I said before, good luck profiling a PHP app. Need to know which method is taking up most of your execution time? For all you know, one xml transformation can be accounting for 60% of your execution time... can you find that out in PHP? Sure, you can put in lots of time printouts that print to the screen or console but its certainly not as efficient as something like Eclipse Profiler.

Notice how all the stuff that I mentioned so far is free? Zend is $300 per license (and that's not the all-incompassing package)

Additionally, yes there real packages to back up my statements. Nothing out for PHP is as powerful as Hibernate, or as AspectJ, or as the profiler above or as JMS, or etc, etc...

Again, in your architecture there is no way for you to add another box, scale the application up, etc, etc... If you ever get to that point, you have to throw everything out and write it all from scratch.

You might have been more productive in PHP. How much more productive? 10%? 50%? 80%? Is it enough to compensate for the possibility that you must rewrite if your application grows dramatically?

Were you that much more productive because you are more comfortable in PHP in general? I bet someone can be just as comfortable coding in PHP as in the Struts or Tapestry frameworks for Java.

So yes, I've done both. No need to get nasty.

"I don't think that's right. In PHP you get to set an absolute limit and once that limit is reached then it stops. You can not presume the database pooling was misconfigured, it probably worked just like the author intended."

Great, that's stupid. If the absolute limit for database connections is TWO, it should still not crash on the home page. My problem isn't the connection pooling, its the fact that a wasted database hit is being made for EVERY access to the home page. That's ridiculous. Especially on a site that has relatively static data (that doesn't change more often than once a minute.)

And trust me, I doubt ANY author would intend for their site to just "die." If that's how you intend to react to heavy load, you're just a bad author. That's isn't "premature optimization," it's obvious smart optimization.

Awhile back I created my own 'gallery' program (before I'd even heard of Gallery). Its premise is that it's only one file, and everything is 100% automatic. All you need is PHP and Imagemagick on the server. Then you set the directories to be indexed writable by the webserver user (for thumbnail creation). Voila! It takes care of the rest. You can check out the sourceforge page at:
http://image-indexer.sourceforge.net/
also, my site using it is http://haven.loki.ws/digcamera

It's not quite as feature rich perhaps as Gallery, but it works very fast and does the job exceedingly well.

according to this thread
http://kerneltrap.org/node/5627
at least as far as i can understand, fuse will be included in 2.6.14, right ?

if so, does this mean that i will be finally able to mount ssh "filesystems" ? :)

will there be a need for special utilities (mount etc) ?

i tried searching for more detailed information, but i didn't find any 'featurelist' for general population ...ok, after some more searches i found http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ :)
from that page i gather that special utilities and even libraries will be needed. hopefully distributions will cach up on this fast enough then.

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/