Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

So I have been hacking away today at Android-Maven.

It's far from perfect, and I sure still have a hell of a lot to learn about Maven2 (and Android), but it at least is a starting point - it can build, install in the emulator, and run an Android app.

GWT-Maven has gotten a good deal of attention from the developers lately, and has a lot of new features and more stability as a result.

The Maven 2.x line now has a new beta release (one that will go non-beta any day now) that supports the following, in addition to the standard run the shell, run the compiler, generate client side beans stuff:

New minor rev of the 1.x gwt-maven plugin series, contains some minor bugfixes.

Docs updated and are here.

New version is in the repo here.

Cooper and I both have been working on a Maven GWT related project for some time. The project, gwt-maven is hosted at Google Code and provides a Maven 1.x plugin for GWT along with a support class (used by the plugin) - and a planned future 2.x plugin.

The docs for gwt-maven are hosted here on TotSP and the blog also has some existing install and overview information.

It is at least starting to look like a blog type app but I admit that I have not spent as much time on it yet as I wanted to - and have a long way to go.

I plan to clean up lots of stuff, its early alpha, and add much more - but just wanted to show that progress has been made (albeit slowly - due to other commitments).

jPenguin, for the uninitiated, is the new rev of Screaming Penguin. It is Java based (using stuff like Stripes and Hibernate) and will have some cool new features. It will make some use of AJAX (not in there yet, but

I wrote a little side project the other day which does various things around log4j and Lucene. It creates indexes from existing log files via a utility, allows projects to log to a lucene index via a custom appender for said task - and it has a web interface for searching the index (which uses the idiom of two steps where step one you search with a query and get a lits of "hits" back and step two you give it a time frame and style around a particular hit and it returns a snapshot of the log based on that criteria).

The point of this was to be able to search logfiles from a web applicatio

Im pushing a new Agg build up now. I fixed the broken cache server stuff last night, cleaned up some threading issues, reworked the config system on the Feed Persistence stuff based on some new information on Castor I gleened from the mailing lists and fixed a couple small bugs that got introduced this week. Hopefully Sunday will be entirely devoted to some seriously new functionality and I can get past the mundane stuff.

The new DB centric stuff has pretty much hit the sweet spot on the whole memory vs speed issue, and I am finally happy with the performance and stability on the productio