Carterpants

Oh boy what a great 4th of July weekend. Saw plenty of fireworks courtesy of Mr. Ulmer and his explosionary cohort Michael Goodwin III (really its Ulmer and Mikey, but I made them sound all fancy and shit). Beer was drank, hands were charred, and the night sky was bathed in all colors of the rainbow. Great way to celebrate this Nation’s Independence and honor those who continue to fight for that same principle today.

The holiday weekend meant a shortened work week to look forward to, but my recent project is proving to be rather entertaining in a frustrating sense. I’m learning quite a bit about Oracle WebLogic installation, administration, and configuration, despite Oracle’s best attempt to litter their documentation with completely useless information. Its only Wednesday and I’m already whooped..

Anywhoooooo, what’s happening around the world of tech you ask?

Well for starters the latest release of the Android operating system is slaughtering the iOS4 in various benchmark comparisons. This recent JavaScript performance test shows v2.2 of Android smacking the iPhone upside the skull with a telephone pole. The ‘Droid literally Chris Brown’d the iPhone in this test. Don’t make me smackabish!

Ever since the whole “Big 10 going to 12, and Big 12 going to possibly nothing” event, I’ve noticed Twitter has been struggling lately. I would frequently get errors from my Twitter app, claiming API limit warnings… and even when logging on to the site directly I was presented with the “Fail Whale”. Apparently people are catching on to the service… well DUH. Twitter has become “the horse’s mouth” for all things in the spotlight recently. For example, this college conference realignment fiasco… regent board members and their lackeys were gaining followers by the thousands as people were chomping at the bit to get the latest piece of gossip on their favorite team, and retweeting them to their friends, and so on and so forth. Its not hard to guess that Twitter quickly becomes overwhelmed when high profile news hits the streets via Tweets!


One way to counter this flood of activity is for Twitter to limit the number of API calls made by 3rd party applications, such as my Twitter app on my phone. Recently they lowered the maximum number of calls from 350 to 175 per hour in hopes of limiting the activity on the servers. At one point they dropped the limit as low as 75 last week as Twitter was grinding to a halt.

So you think your life as a stay at home momma is interesting enough to blog about? (Ha, that’s a loaded question that delves into the relevance of blogs in general.. but I digress..) These mommas thought so and over time garnished quite a following. Apparently a few of them rose to such stardom that big corporations began pushing products there way, in hopes of getting some relatively inexpensive advertising via blog postings.

This created a backlash among the blog followers, calling them sell-outs, corporate plants, etc. Now, its always fascinated me that nearly anyone can start making big $$$ by simply regurgitating (and in most cases embellishing) their daily happenings, but I’ve never put enough stake into any of these people’s blog to the point I would feel disgruntled upon finding out they were making some cash from it.

What’s the big deal? Are you mad these self-proclaimed life experts are cashing in from their hobby?

I came across this article (tweeted by @developerWorks) which tackles the issue of Java’s relevance in today’s codesphere. This is only for the nerdly at heart.

Testing my new Twitter blog integration. Prepare for endless tweets about my blog updates, foolios!

The official Twitter blog reports that Twitter has been a target of a mass-DoS (Denial of Service) attack this morning, bringing the site to its digital knees. It appears they’ve managed to stave off the attack for now, and service has been restored. Tweet away, and I’m sure #DoS will be the top trend today.