Bye bye Summer (Hello Marklar!)

Labour day week is almost to a close, as well as summer. Which is ok by me, as I prefer the artisitic canvas of the trees as they turn crimson and golden. Wanted to leave the summer in style though, and our neighbourhood got together for a block party and barbeque Saturday night. Was a lot of fun.

With the tears of the $DEITY falling on us right now (summer is over, so its time to rain again), I am cooped up inside and decided to make some use of it. Spent a good portion of last night and this morning rereading Java Security from ORA and brushing up on the dynamics of certificate management in Java. I am going to end up having to write our own PKI infrastructure, including our own Certificate Authority (CA) to allow us to maintain policy enforcement device certs within our application. I think I am going to write it as an entirely separate app and put in hooks to support access to the devices. Since everything is now driven by an XML engine anyways, that shouldn't be to hard.

Marklar! Marklar! Marklar! Marklar! This is the name I will follow for some time. According to this article Apple has been porting OSX to x86 in parallel to their PPC version since the beginning. Although it is doubtful that I am going to get a copy of this any time soon, I will be one of the first to blow away my laptop on put OSX on my x86 system when its available. It will take 3rd party developers some time to port their apps to x86... but hey... if Steve Jobs can get over the hardware hurdle... someday... we could be in luck.

Following Solas's lead, I took the Fark Cliche survey today:

Take the "Which FARK Cliche Are You" quiz!

So many silly surveys.. so little time. Anyways, I am gonna go and spend some more time thinking about the Certificate policy server. Need a kewl name for it. Anyone have any ideas?