From the feature well: Sometimes technologies show up where you least expect them. “When your business is to cure the body of ailments, or to turn back the clock on a culture’s waning heritage, or to keep a herd of cattle happily milked — where does all this enterprise technology get you? In some cases, surprisingly far.” Your esophagus is one. The battlefield is a bit more obvious, but IT-enabled self-service cow milking most certainly is not. High-tech in the weirdest places. The news beat: The blackout of Google’s Analytics service continues and the data has not been updated since Saturday. Mozilla rushes out its second Firefox patch this month and, in so doing, fixes a pair of flaws in the URL protocol handler component. Sun Microsystems swings to black for its fourth quarter on essentially flat revenues. And Microsoft breaks ground on a new datacenter in San Antonio wherein it is relying on green technologies. App dev: After a few weeks of trying and an unhelpful error log, Martin Heller finally got Aptana RadRails working on his Windows XP SP2 system. “My initial impression is that Aptana RadRails retains all the strengths that RadRails had in its previous incarnation, and is stronger still because of the JavaScript support provided by Aptana,” he writes in this Strategic Developer post. “I’d be interested in what other Rails developers think of Aptana RadRails.” Software Development