Archive | June, 2008

Mac OS X 10.5.4 update arrived

By on June 30, 2008 in Apple

Only one month ago, Apple released 10.5.3 and now we are getting 10.5.4. I guess this is the shortest Update release for Apple ever.

The release note for 10.5.4 can be found here and you get the Update best trough the built in Software Update. Looks like they made some major improvements for Spaces.

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Biggest Platform Development Mistakes

By on June 30, 2008 in Uncategorized

Over at the Gigaom Blog the people from AKF Consulting have published a list of the 10 biggest platform development mistakes. It is a good short read. I am listing the headings of the 10 mistakes below.

  1. Failing to design for rollback.
  2. Confusing product release with product success.
  3. Assuming a new Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) will fix issues with missing delivery dates.
  4. Allowing history to repeat itself.
  5. Scaling through third parties.
  6. Relying on QA to find your mistakes.
  7. Relying on “revolutionary” or “big bang” fixes.
  8. Not taking into account the multiplicative effect of failure.
  9. Failing to create and incent a culture of excellence.
  10. Not having a business continuity/disaster recovery plan.

Reading trough the list I am sure we all know one or two of the mistakes…

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Roozani – Information Management made easy – got a new logo

By on June 28, 2008 in Uncategorized

Roozani – an application that will help you organize all kinds of information and make them available for you everywhere -  got a new logo. The new logo is more in line with our other products and makes use of the same “dots” as Razuna.

By the way, if you haven’t signed up for the private beta of Roozani, then I urge you to do so. There are still some open seats left. You can sign up over at http://www.roozani.com and also get to know what Roozani is all about.

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Update on installing JRE 6 on CentOS

By on June 26, 2008 in Uncategorized

Looking at my blog statistics shows that my post on “Installing the latest JRE 6 on CentOS” is one of the top positions. Also a lot of search engines referrals come to this post.

Thus I would like to give a short update to the blog post, since some things have changed since then. Also CentOS has been updated to Version 5.2 in the meantime.

The way I have done it with modifying the symbolic link in “/usr/bin/java/” still works, but it is not the recommended way to do it. Thus I follow here the path that the CentOS project has outlined. Where applicable I updated the link information. So, without further ado, let’s install JRE 6 or update it to the latest Version (update 6 for 6) as of today (06/26/2008).

  1. Install the “jpackage-utils” (should already be installed) with;
    “yum install -y jpackage-utils”
  2. Download the JRE 1.6 from Sun. Grab the one that with “…RPM in self-extracting file”.
  3. Make the downloaded “bin” file executable and run the installation. Enter;
    “chmod +x jdk-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin”
    and follow with;
    “./jdk-6u1-linux-i586-rpm.bin”
    This will give you the RPM file to install.
  4. Next, download the needed add on package from:
    http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1.7/generic/non-free/RPMS/ The file you should download starts with “java-1.6-sun……..”. Got it? Let’s continue.
  5. Now install both RPM’s with;
    “rpm -Uvh jdk-6u6-linux-i586.rpm”
    and
    “rpm -Uvh java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.06-1jpp.i586.rpm”
    (Since you might already have a older version of Java 6 installed the first will tell you that it is installed and will abort the installation. Thus separating the two installations.)
  6. IF you have already modified the symbolic link under “/usr/bin/java/” then you should remove this link now! Simply issue a;
    “rm -f /usr/bin/java”
  7. Now with the “alternative” system you can switch between the JVM easy. Since we want to have 1.6 running you need to set this in the alternatives. Luckily this is simply done with;
    “/usr/sbin/alternatives –config java”
    You should now see the following;

    Enter “2″ into the selection prompt. The system has now changed the Java runtime for you to the new 6 release.
  8. Test it with;
    “java -version” and you should get this;

That’s it. You are all set with the latest Java update. With future updated of Java all you need to do is to download the JRE from Sun and install it.

Remember if you set the JAVA_HOME variable in your profile to update it as well to the new installation!

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