I always find it interesting to watch the 4x100m Sprint Relay at the Olympics and Track and Field Championships. It’s the fastest and most technically difficult of all the relays. Demonstrating true synergy, a well executed relay transports the baton around the track faster than the sum of the individual personal best 100m times. Synergy is usually defined as the interaction or cooperation of two or more agents to produce a combined...

We are really lucky, to experience another technological revolution. After the Personal Computer and the Internet, the Smart-Phone as a front-end for Cloud-Computing seems to be the next radical alteration, once again saving the tech industry, not just in the Valley, but in every other related  tech center around the country. It always needs at least two players to have a game and Android and the iPhone seem to be those players this time...

“That wizard is just a crazy old man. Now, tomorrow I want you to take that R2 unit to Anchorhead and have it’s memory erased. That’ll be the end of it. It belongs to us now.” After seeing the Nexus-One receiving the Android 2.2 a.k.a FroYo update last week, I decided to not wait for Motorola and Verizon any longer and take matters into my own hands, upgrading the Motorola Droid to FroYo. But before going into...

Tomcat 7 is the first Apache Tomcat release to support the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and EL 2.2 specifications. Please note that Tomcat 7 requires Java 1.6 or better, but that shouldn’t be a problem if you are running OS X 10.5 or 10.6. Here are the easy to follow steps to get it up and running on your Mac Download a binary distribution of the core module: apache-tomcat-7.0.0.tar.gz from here. Opening/unarchiving the archive will create...

Every couple of years my personal web presence gets a major overhaul. This time it took a little longer, meaning wolfpaulus.com had the same look and feel for quite some time now and I had to use WayBack machine at http://web.archive.org/ to find out for how long … This time to focus of the upgrade was mainly to make content creation and syndication easier but it also resulted in what I think is great look and feel. If you happen to...

“Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.” Because of annotation incompatibilities, Android cannot be built with Java 6.0 but requires the older Java SE 5.0. Kind of shameful, considering that J2SE 5.0 reached its end of service life (EOSL) on November 3, 2009, which is the date of the final publicly available...

…but only for a short time ( Updated for AppleTV 3.0.2 ) Hello AppleTV, sometimes someone will find you annoying because you happen to do something … or more likely, because you don’t. I don’t want you to change something about yourself just because, and you know, we are all annoying at times, and some people are too quick to criticize. Oh, forget about it, enough is enough … you will get hacked again, NOW! I...