ALOHA ON RAILS
It’s official. We have a date: October 5-6, 2009. All the Rails geeks will be packing their board shorts and sunscreen to come to our awesome island. Seth didn’t hold back, settled on the Marriot in Waikiki. It’s 1 block from the beach.

App Engine Java Overview
As predicted here, Java will now be supported by the Google App Engine. Now, we just need a Java version of Mysql and everything will run like it does at home…

Microsoft fined by German, 9 Million Euros for monopoly style pricing
I wonder if paying out fines for anti-trust fines is built into Microsoft cost structure. It must be by now. Matt Asay talks about how much influence Microsoft can have by controlling the user’s first experience on the web. Too bad msversus.org doesn’t keep his site up to date anymore but if you haven’t read it, check it out NOW.