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We all know Apple likes to keep things simple. Their modus operandi has always been “we are anti-button”. That has lead to some great leaps in industrial design and powerful products that are ridiculously easy to use. It is my opinion that, in one instance, they went a bit too far.

It’s time travel Monday.

When it comes to tech news and punditry, my news in-box (primarily, an RSS newsreader called NetNewsWire), is filled with items that make me think I’ve gone asleep for 20 years, but unlike Rip Van Winkle, I woken up to discover nothing has changed.

With the release of Lawson Business intelligence (LBI) 9.0.2, Lawson made the decision to no longer support Tomcat in a production environment. Many companies will now need to migrate LBI to Websphere since it is the only supported platform.

Snipplr, a social networking code repository created by Sitening, reached over 7,000 registered users today. Thanks to a highly acclaimed redesign, the past year has shown incredible growth for the website. 4,559 users have registered within the last year. Those users have also contributed over 4,000 code snippets.

Snipplr is a Web application that makes it easy to find, save, create and share code snippets. The servi

Although we were directly affected by the two hour outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it still wasn’t the end of the world. I read several blog entries and comments about “not putting all of your eggs in one basket” and “how cloud computing was unreliable.” However, what other baskets should I put my eggs in, and how would that make my website or Web application more reliable?

At 3:00 in the afternoon today, on Wednesday, I'm waking up from a 90 minute nap, and Adam has been asleep for 40 minutes. I'm estimating that Lydia has been asleep for 30 minutes. Some of you reading might be thinking, "so what?" If you've ever had a newborn at home, your reaction might be, "how does he have any idea what day of the week it is, let alone how long his nap was, and when his son and wife fell asleep??"