Out of curiosity I just did a Google search for “digitalhobbit” to find any references to my site (not that I really expected any…). One of the links that was returned among the top search results was this one. It points to a site called All Consuming, which apparently monitors blogs for Amazon book links and uses this information to generate a page of the most discussed books, along with links to Amazon, to blogs discussing the books, etc....
I have recently had a chance to look into several XML object binding frameworks, including JAXB, Castor, and JiBX. As usual, each framework has its strengths and its weaknesses. I should add that our requirements are pretty special, as the classes that are bound to XML will form part of an SDK and therefore need to be clean, follow Java conventions, and contain good Javadocs that describe the XML properties that they are mapped to....
Even though the Amazon Plog initially did not show up for me when this feature was first launched, it started to show up a few days ago. The name definitely seems like a poor marketing idea, since this feature has absolutely nothing to do with a blog, other than its blog-like layout and the reverse-chronological order. The entries (at least the ones in my plog) consist of the usual Amazon recommendations as well as quick summaries of recently placed orders....
The third book in the Pragmatic Starter Kit series, “Pragmatic Project Automation”, is now available, either from Amazon or from the Pragmatic Programmer website. I have read and can thoroughly recommend the other two books in the series, “Pragmatic Version Control” (Amazon link) and “Pragmatic Unit Testing” (Amazon link). All books in the series are refreshingly short, to the point, and full of pragmatic advice, without the excessive bloat found in so many other programming books....
Here’s an interesting site: Bitoogle, a BitTorrent search engine (via Boing Boing). It’s funny how BitTorrent, which was really just implemented to speed up downloads of large files and not for filesharing, turned into a popular and efficient filesharing application…