David Diop
Africa my Africa
Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs
Africa of whom my grandmother sings
On the banks of the distant river
I have never known you
But your blood flows in my veins
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields
The blood of your sweat
The sweat of your work
The work of your slavery
Africa, tell me Africa
Is this your back that is unbent
This back that never breaks under the weight of humiliation
This back trembling with red scars
And saying no to the whip under the midday sun
But a grave voice answers me
Impetuous child that tree, young and strong
That tree over there
Splendidly alone amidst white and faded flowers
That is your Africa springing up anew
Springing up patiently, obstinately
Whose fruit bit by bit acquires
The bitter taste of liberty.
http://blogginginparis.wordpress.com/2004/08/22/afrique-africa-by-david-diop-1927-1960/
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Look at your computer setup and imagine that you hooked up a 3D printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you’re in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself.
RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right – a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the parts up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about €30,000. And it isn’t even designed so that it can make itself. So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €500). That way it’s accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have a RepRap machine, you can use it to make another and give that one to a friend…
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Trying grails for an sms-based health data reporting web application. Lest I forget how I started playing around…
Groovy
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.groovy.maven.archetypes
-DarchetypeArtifactId=gmaven-archetype-basic
http://groovy.codehaus.org/GMaven+-+Building+Groovy+Projects
Grails
http://forge.octo.com/maven/sites/mtg/grails-maven-plugin/
Interesting to see that some maven goals dont even require a pom.
GUI – Matisse Projects
http://wiki.netbeans.org/UsingNetbeansMatisseAndEclipseInParallel
http://www.ensode.net/netbeans_ivy.html
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2007/06/accessing_javan.html
Using your ant tasks in Maven
http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-using-ant.html
…wondering how this would compare to using appfuse (spring-hibernate)
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