Superpatterns

• Inkling Corporate Blog - Prediction Market Platform: Inkling with SAML 2.0 Single Sign On
  Nice to see some take up of OpenSSO's SAML 2.0 Ruby Extension. Inkling looks pretty interesting - a platform to run your own prediction market.
  (tags: opensso saml ruby rubyonrails inkling)
• Terminal Tips: Enable "path view" in Finder - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  Very handy hint - get your Finder windows to show the full path of the directory.
  (tags: mac osx apple howto leopard settings)

• Mac OS X, Perl and SSL
  Perl on MAC does not support SSL out of the box. So you must install SSL support: sudo perl -MCPAN -e "install Crypt::SSLeay"
  (tags: perl mac osx ssl)

• Boxer: Mac-Friendly DOS Emulation
  Nice - maybe I'll get some of my old games up on my MacBook Pro :-)
  (tags: windows mac osx opensource virtualization dos free games emulator dosbox)

• Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds support for Java SE 6
  Yay - Java SE 6 on Leopard!!!
  (tags: java leopard mac osx)

If you are working with Java on OS X, then you are probably aware of 13949712720901ForOSX, a call for Apple to support Java 6 on Mac OS X Leopard.

My personal take on this (stressing the personal - despite my highly exalted position at Sun I have no insider knowledge) is that Java 6 was in Leopard at some point in time (witness the Java 6 developer preview download at ADC - long gone now). Apple put resources into iPhone at the expense of Leopard. I reckon that Java 6 was cut to bring in Leopard's ship date, and Java 5 hastily put in its place, hence the Java 5 issues we are seeing.

All of this would be of little import, were Apple not dealing with a developer community that has become addicted to openness. Apple's ruthless, consumer-oriented, information management just doesn't work with this crowd. And, devoid of any official position from Apple, the community assumes the worst. It's only a matter of time before the first blog entry appears alleging that Java 6 was dropped from Leopard because Steve Jobs spends too much time eating babies (oops - there it is! ).

I guess the first we'll hear from Apple is when the download appears in Software Update. It can't happen too soon...