Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for September 29th through October 6th:

• Network Alchemy – iFountain is a slick, open-source, webtop replacement. It also provides notification trough sms, im and stuff. Personally I would also dump notifications to an asterisk box to call the admin. Some pretty cool IVRs could be set up for event monitoring…

  iFountain turns netcool into a useable event aggregation system.

• Grape – Groovy – Codehaus – Grape (The Groovy Adaptable Packaging Engine or Groovy Advanced Packaging Engine) is the infrastructure enabling the grab() calls in Groovy, a set of classes leveraging Ivy to allow for a repository driven module system for Groovy. This allows a developer to write a script with an essentially arbitrary library requirement, and ship just the script. Grape will, at runtime, download as needed and link the named libraries and all dependencies forming a transitive closure when the script is run from existing repositories such as Ibiblio, Codehaus, and java.net.
• Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America – visualization of spread of walmart
• 9 Interesting Facts To Know About a Website | Web Tricks –