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Lifehacker has a nice list of helpful web applications and some suggestions for managing your distributed workplace.

Check out: Geek to Live: Essential tools for the placeless office

I’m employing a lot of these tactics but there are definitely a few new gems in there that I will undoubtedly give a try! My favorite is having everyone subscribe to a shared del.icio.us rss feed. Great idea.

Red5 is an Open Source Flash Server written in Java. Here’s a collection of links into the Red5 site:

Main:

http://osflash.org/red5

Download:

http://www.osflash.org/red5/red5downloads

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There’s a great article over at the server side about Spring as the new Java EE.

I favored Spring and Hibernate over the more widely sanctioned Struts and EJB combo a long time ago. It’s always nice to see I’m not the only one embracing change and the article covers nicely similar transitions in the Java conference space.

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I let OS X handle downloading and installing the latest JDK via System Preferences -> Software Update. Some Java software require that JAVA_HOME be explicitly set, so where should it point?

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Having somewhat recently migrated to OS X, I’ve decided to move from Thunderbird to OS X’s built in Mail.app for it’s OS integration features.

One nice thing about Thunderbird is it’s plugin architecture. Here’s a seriously exhaustive list of plugins for Apple’s Mail.app that might even surpass that of Thunderbird: Apple Mail Plug-ins and Tools.

The one’s I found most useful: Letterbox and MailTags. Mail away!