Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in personal, Red Hat, Technology on Jan 2nd, 2011
On the first couple of days of 2011 I’m sitting down to continue a tradition I started in 2005 (2006, 2008, 2009) I find this a nice way to review the year before its committed to the cobwebs of my long-term memory. So, here’s a quick review of the best and worst of 2010 : [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java, Red Hat, Technology, Web on Jun 10th, 2010
I’ll be speaking at JBoss World / Red Hat Summit again this year. I’m part of 3 sessions focussed on JBoss : JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Roadmap, Wednesday 2pm I’ll be sharing our 3-year roadmap and will touch on Java EE 6, HornetQ, Infinispan, support next-Gen (aka Cloud) infrastructure. I’ll also go through some of [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java, open source, Red Hat, Technology on Dec 1st, 2009
Zallinger’s “March of Progress” from wikipedia. I’ve been part of the Java ecosystem for long enough to see and be part of every Java EE / J2EE release to date. I still have a Forte SynerJ box-set somewhere – we claimed it as the first fully integrated J2EE 1.2 App Server and IDE – that [...]
Posted in TabSweep, Technology on Dec 4th, 2008
There’s a podcast on DZone with Greg Hinkle on JOPR / JBoss Operations Network (JON) and Application Management. Heiko Rupp has published a guide to writing plugins for JOPR / JON. It looks like SpringSource had their annual developer event this week; Spring are well respected for their technology – but their marketing team seem [...]
Posted in Business, Technology on Nov 26th, 2008
Since first posting – I’ve added Open Office and Java FX – just goes to show – Sun have a lot of stuff. I promised myself I wouldn’t bite; yet here I am. I’m contributing to the “Here’s what Sun should do meme”. And why not - I’m as good a keyboard-CEO as the next [...]
Posted in Technology on Nov 21st, 2008
It’s been a wild week on the US stock markets (no doubt true across the globe). The irrational behaviour we’re seeing has created some interesting situations – a number of brand name companies are trading at or below cash or net asset value.This has caused some other irrational thinking – for example Dave Rosenberg is [...]
Posted in open source, Technology on Oct 16th, 2008
Originally uploaded by sharps With a bit of trimming, a swap-file and a new build – I now have Fedora 10 running pretty reliably on the OLPC. I wouldn’t call it snappy exactly but it’s a start. Fedora is running off a writeable live image (using a 4Gb SD Card) which also hosts the swap-file. [...]
Posted in Red Hat, Technology on Sep 26th, 2008
If you’re not already too late – there’s a chance to get your hands on a (mostly) free OLPC if you’re willing to commit to some testing of Fedora on the OLPC. I’ve signed up but fully expect my 7 year old daughter to be doing the testing The mostly free bit is that you [...]
Posted in Red Hat, TabSweep, Technology on Sep 3rd, 2008
Red Hat’s Spacewalk (the upstream OSS project for RHN Satellite) seems to be doing pretty well – they have a very active mailing list and are already getting external contributions. Mat Asay casts his perspective over on c-net. Talking of growing communities – interest in JBoss in China is really picking up – there’s a [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 29th, 2008
Neil McAllister over at InfoWorld has what starts like a doom and gloom piece on the demise of Java. Having seen this kind of sensationalist drivel too often I was inclined to ignore it (and the ensuing thread on /.). I’m glad I didn’t i – Neil makes some good points and presents them well. [...]