IBM works on Web2.0 solutions - end-user programming.

Interesting to see that IBM invests so much energy in Web2.0 and customer facing applications (like its competition from Redmond). Certainly a good infrastructure for Web2.0 will be an enabler for IBM's platforms, but it is cerainly not the standard playground for IBM.
IBM eyes programming for the masses | Tech News on ZDNet: "IBM is working on a project, called QEDwiki, that takes a stab at a long-held industry promise: end-user programming."

New business model - "Fair use" - JAJAH - web-activated telephony

Interesting service announced today from the new startup Jajah (Yair Goldfinger, ex. ICQ is one of the investors). They provide a free service but ask to limit the usage and use some of the paid services. Can't say this is a truly business model, sounds more like an eye-balls like model...
JAJAH - web-activated telephony: "What’s the JAJAH “Fair Use” Policy ?
The Jajah “Fair Use “ policy asks our users to “play fair” and behave in a manner that best serves our greater calling community. We ask that you limit your free hours to about an hour a day, five hours a week,or about 1.000 minutes per month. If you use it more than that, we ask that you also use some paid JAJAH services such as text messaging (or scheduled calling?) We can only offer the free service if enough people also use some paid services. "

WebSphere to support Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO)

At last, IBM added out of the box support for SPNEGO (SSO with Windows domain) for its WAS platform.
BM adheres to the WS-Security specification and the Web services Interoperability Basic Security Profile—a set of open Web services specifications that provide security for key infrastructure technologies such as SOAP messaging, the transport layer, etc. Additional security improvements include a trust association interceptor (TAI) that uses the Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism (SPNEGO) to provide an integrated single sign-on environment with Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 Servers. HTTP users log in and authenticate only once at their desktop and are subsequently authenticated (internally) with WebSphere Application Server.
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Sharing server configuration for RAD6

Common problem in RAD6 is setting adding a configured server instance to the SCM (CVS or others). This can be configured using the following steps, so when creating a new server the server will be stored and shared in the SCM.

1. Open Window -> Preferences
2. Select the "Server" category
3. Tick the "Create server resources in workspace" box
4. Create a new server definition

HTTP protocol debugger - Fiddler HTTP Debugger - Fiddler

From the Microsoft factory, a nice tool, alternative to the widely used Apache TCPMonitor.
Fiddler HTTP Debugger. It does seems like a more featured utility than Apache's though ...

Ajax for Java developers: Exploring the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

Interesting Ajax framework by Google. Provides an interesting alternative for JSF with swing/swt like programming techniques.

Ajax for Java developers: Exploring the Google Web Toolkit: "ork that provides a great deal of useful functionality. However, GWT is something of an all-or-nothing approach, targeted at a relatively small niche in Web application development market. I hope this brief tour has given you a feel for GWT's capabilities and its limitations. Although it certainly won't suit everyone's needs, GWT remains a major engineering achievement and is worthy of serious consideration when you design your next Ajax application. GWT has more breadth and depth than I've been able to explore here, so do read Google's documentation for more or jo"

Welcome

What a pleasent place and date to start.
We're just before the final stages of the world cup 2006 and I decided it is a good timing to kick off my personal blog in which I'd like to share my thoughts with all of you.
So, just as a welcome note, as there are many posts yet to come - good luck to us all!

Ronen