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I have been trying to find time to write a book about the Sakai experience. I am thinking about a book like "Dreaming in Code" but about Sakai. I will focus on the early years 2004-2007 when I was most...

I have been trying to find time to write a book about the Sakai experience. I am thinking about a book like "Dreaming in Code" but about Sakai. I will focus on the early years 2004-2007 when I was most...

A number of news sources seem to be publishing comparisons between initial sales numbers for the Apple iPhone, Motorola Droid, and Google Nexus One.

• http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/03/nexus-one-sales/
• http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31410/Day-74-Sales-Apple-iPhone-vs-Google-Nexus-One-vs-Motorola-Droid

Some quick comparisons are being made trying to compare the DROID & iPhone numbers head on, but I’m surprised not to see any sidebars noting that the original iPhone launched at 499/599 – whereas the DROID has been fully subsidized from the get go.

A number of news sources seem to be publishing comparisons between initial sales numbers for the Apple iPhone, Motorola Droid, and Google Nexus One.

• http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/03/nexus-one-sales/
• http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31410/Day-74-Sales-Apple-iPhone-vs-Google-Nexus-One-vs-Motorola-Droid

Some quick comparisons are being made trying to compare the DROID & iPhone numbers head on, but I’m surprised not to see any sidebars noting that the original iPhone launched at 499/599 – whereas the DROID has been fully subsidized from the get go.

There’s a conversation going on today on the EDUCAUSE CIO List about criteria for evaluating learning management systems (LMS). Patrick Masson, CIO at SUNY Delhi, suggested in that conversation, that a feature comparison might no longer provide the right assessment criteria. Brad Wheeler, CIO at Indiana University and uber-leader of Community Source in education, responded [...]

There’s a conversation going on today on the EDUCAUSE CIO List about criteria for evaluating learning management systems (LMS). Patrick Masson, CIO at SUNY Delhi, suggested in that conversation, that a feature comparison might no longer provide the right assessment criteria. Brad Wheeler, CIO at Indiana University and uber-leader of Community Source in education, responded [...]

The job description is here. If you are thinking about applying and have questions, feel free to ping me.

Related posts:

1. How to Understand and Follow the Sakai Foundation
2. A Brief Word about the Mellon Foundation and Sakai
3. I’ve Been Elected to the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors

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The job description is here. If you are thinking about applying and have questions, feel free to ping me.

Related posts:

1. How to Understand and Follow the Sakai Foundation
2. A Brief Word about the Mellon Foundation and Sakai
3. I’ve Been Elected to the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors

© michael.feldstein for e-Literate, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
Post tags: Sakai, Sakai Foundation

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While adding some unit tests to older Spring code, I noticed that the production Spring configuration was wiring together some pretty simple Factory objects that had private init() methods (took a few minutes to figure out why I kept getting wavy lines), that looked like this:

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private void init(){
try {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for(String server : servers){
sb.append(server.trim());
sb.append(BLANK_SPACE_DELIMITER);
}

memCacheClient = new MemcachedClient(AddrUtil.getAddresses(sb.toString()));
} catch (IOException e) {
log.error("Unable to Connect to memCache " ,e);
throw new RuntimeException("Unable to Connect to memCache " , e);
}
}

It turns out that AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory does a bit of reflection when processing ‘init-method’ to allow it to invoke private methods (assuming you don’t have any SecurityMangers running, which you probably don’t)

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ReflectionUtils.makeAccessible(initMethod);
try {
initMethod.invoke(bean, (Object[]) null);
}

So… magic…

While adding some unit tests to older Spring code, I noticed that the production Spring configuration was wiring together some pretty simple Factory objects that had private init() methods (took a few minutes to figure out why I kept getting wavy lines), that looked like this:

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private void init(){
try {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for(String server : servers){
sb.append(server.trim());
sb.append(BLANK_SPACE_DELIMITER);
}

memCacheClient = new MemcachedClient(AddrUtil.getAddresses(sb.toString()));
} catch (IOException e) {
log.error("Unable to Connect to memCache " ,e);
throw new RuntimeException("Unable to Connect to memCache " , e);
}
}

It turns out that AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory does a bit of reflection when processing ‘init-method’ to allow it to invoke private methods (assuming you don’t have any SecurityMangers running, which you probably don’t)

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ReflectionUtils.makeAccessible(initMethod);
try {
initMethod.invoke(bean, (Object[]) null);
}

So… magic…