Torsten Curdt’s weblog

It has been a long journey. The release process took a little longer than expected. (Let’s not go there!) But finally I am really happy to announce that JCI has been officially released. So what is it?

JCI is a java compiler interface. It can be used to either compile java (or any other language that can be compiled to java classes like e.g. groovy or javascript) to java. It is well integrated with a FAM (FilesystemAlterationMonitor) that can be used with the JCI compiling/reloading classloader. All the currently supported compilers (even javac before java6) feature in-memory compilation.

If you got interested make sure you have a look into the examples. They should help to get you started. Be it reloading of configurations, a tiny jsp servlet or a command line java compiler.

You can download the traditional binary and source distributions from the apache mirrors or get it from the usual maven repositories.

Quoting www.ixus-world.de

The E18 error message is the worst that can happen to an owner of the Canon IXUS.

Well …guess who was seeing this bugger on the display of his IXUS lately. I’ve tried the ixus-world repair guide but I have to say …don’t bother! So far I have always been pretty good at fixing stuff like this. I am patient and enjoy fiddling with small parts …but the amount of screws and electronic in that little device was just incredible. In order to get to actual faulty part you have to disassemble the whole camera. It’s much more complicated as it looks like in the instructions. I know the guide might bring up MacGyver feelings in many of us. But sometimes you just have to let go. You served me well dear IXUS. RIP.

This is so amazing ….especial the effect with the flowers and the sign. I don’t want to know what the software costs …or what the hardware requirements are to apply those modifications in a timely fashion. But boy – that is cool. Would love to know a little more about the theory behind it.

Thomas and Ugo have blogged about the whole Rebecca story. I’ve sent a message to flickr and today I got back an answer.

Hello,

Thank you for your email. We know we messed up, and Stewart
(the boss) has apologized publicly in The Forum:

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/40074/page3/#reply213196

Again, thanks for writing. We appreciate your concern and
passion for the Flickr community.

Regards,

Well …at least.

Although OSX has unix guts I sometime found it a little annoying that cannot just do a

( echo "..." ) | sendmail -t 

to send mails from a script. Well, of course you can. You just have to set it up under OSX. If you don’t want to tinker around with the configs yourself you can use postfixenabler to do the dirty work for you. Nice.