The New England International Auto Show runs from Saturday, Nov. 3 through Sunday, Nov. 11 at Bayside Expo Center, 75 Mount Vernon St., Boston. But its 8 bucks not free :(

Prophetview 720
Gamers demand the best – Hercules delivers
Hercules’ track record of providing features that no one else offers, unique features that enhances the gaming experience, continues with the Prophetview 720. Unique in look and performance, the Prophetview 720 is like no other TFT flat panel LCD. It’s sleek metallic-blue skin, digital titanium buttons, boomerang-like stand and enhanced video playback capabilities are just some of the reasons why it is worthy to carry the Hercules name.Compatible with all PC VGA video cards and Mac video display requirements, this 15-inch flat-panel is like having a bulky 17-inch tube monitor – without the wasted and overpowering box on your desktop. The base of the panel is boomerang-like increasing this panel’s style and space-saving features. The Prophetview 720 also gives you clearer, crisper image quality, even for enhanced video playback, just like an HDTV, and features ultra-low power consumption.

The goal of jconfig is to provide a simple to use ConfigurationManager that works with a XML structure. This version can read the configuration either from a file or get it from an URL. The second option gives you the ability to store your configuration on a different server (maybe one machine that has all the configurations for your system world wide). It can also be used as a fallback scenario so in a case that a configuration file is missing you can download it and then save it to a file. jConfig also supports reading Java properties files so that you can convert your existing properties files into XML files. In general jConfig supports a hierarchical structure to store the properties. All properties can be grouped into categories. There is one default category called “general”.

Anthill is tool that ensures a controlled build process and promotes the sharing of knowledge within an organization. Anthill performs a checkout from the source repository of the latest version of a project before every build and tags the repository with a unique build number after every build. Anthill also automatically updates a project intranet site with artifacts from the latest build. Anthill is an extension to the Apache-Ant project and is compatible with version 1.3 and 1.4 of Ant. Anthill is Open Source and is released under a Mozilla-like license.

Butler - The idea behind Butler is to provide easy access to application configuration data. Good object oriented design dictates that configuration parameters not be hard coded into the application but abstracted out into a configuration file. The problem with such an approach is that it often results in various parts of the application having to read and parse the configuration file independently. The Butler solves that problem. It allows configuration data to be read once and then made accessible by any part of the application.

Amtrak's online reservation sucks. I tried getting a discounted ticket to New York.
Does'nt take my AAA membership number. Their telephone reservation system is even worse :-(
Have to goto South Station to get the tickets. Sux man!!

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