I still have not had much of a chance to play with Laszlo, but IBM has released a very promising looking Integrated Development Environment for Laszlo in form of an Eclipse plugin (what else) on their alphaWorks site. I’ll definitely have to give this a try.
SUN has recently created a new Portlet Community website. It looks like it contains some interesting articles and links.
For some reason it seems like I’m just not very lucky with computers right now… After my recent (and still somewhat ongoing) PC issues, my laptop gave up over the Thanksgiving weekend. This is a Compaq Presario R3000Z that is less than half a year old and that I’m otherwise extremely happy with. All of a sudden, the screen stopped working. Of course, I couldn’t resist taking the computer apart to see if this problem might have a simple cause, such as a disconnected cable....
After some research and comparison shopping, I decided to buy the following components to replace my defective motherboard: For the most part, I am very happy with this combination, although I still have some serious problems. Read below for more… ...
It turned out that it’s not the power supply. I guess I should have known, as the LEDs on the motherboard still light up. At this point it seems most likely that the motherboard is fried. This itself isn’t too bad, as my motherboard and processor are about 2 1/2 years old now and they weren’t exactly cutting edge back then. So I guess it’s time to get a new motherboard and processor....