Willow Springs is a critical terminal for BNSF Railway, because right next door is the busy sorting facility of one of its key customers, United Parcel Service. In a day when most freight trains rate no more than two or three engines, it's not uncommon to see four, six, or more high-horsepower locomotives hustling trainloads of gray UPS trailers across BNSF's Transcon. Indeed, 40 percent of the lifts performed at this terminal are for UPS.

I thought I'd start another series of posts about deploying Java applications on different platforms. This is one of the commonly overlooked aspects of application development, so it would be useful to shed some light on it. This series will cover creating native distribution packages for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (RPM and DEB packages).
These are the features that we want from  native packages:
using platform native installer system
automatic detection and installation of correct JRE
creating application shortcuts and registerign any required application information
creating uninstalation script

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RT @NCombinator: Build a team that ships: #shipping #startups

UPS My Choice (free) tells you the day before a delivery & gives you options to reschedule, reroute, or authorize ($).

"Here’s a papercraft BBC News branded shipping container! (pdf link) It was made by a fan of this project our team was involved with a few years back."

Add deliveries to iPhone app