I just finished a night of general geekiness and as I lay here thinking about the accomplishments, and realizing that I’m writing this from my phone, I wonder if maybe there is a downside to it all.

What is it about the JSR-168 spec that is so hard for vendors to implement. Too vague? Too free? What?
I just wasted the last week trying to figure out why portlets were not rendering with a particular structure. Turns out with the folder in web containing the view, edit and help.jsp files can not start with a capital letter. What the hell?

I got a little tired of launching LDAP Browser (LBE from Novell) on the Mac from command line. So I created a .app file for Mac (zipped) that can be placed in your Applications folder. This was created using Platypus and has not been tested on any other machine than mine. Please report any bugs found.