Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 to be [...]
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 person [...]
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 Technology, open source on Oct 16th, 2008
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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. The poor [...]
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 [...]
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 new [...]
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. [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise, Red Hat, Technology on Jun 5th, 2008
JBoss.org has had unparalleled success in launching innovative OSS tech. into the enterprise - something not lost on the folks at Railo. More on Sacha’s blog
Bill Burke, esteemed JBoss old-timer and fellow at Red Hat continues to make progress with RESTEasy (an implementation of JSR-311 aka JAX-RS) - if my inbox is anything to go [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 4th, 2008
David Ward interviewed on DZone talking mainly about JBDS but also about Seam, the platforms, jBPM and what’s coming in AS 5.0 - good overview if you’re a JBoss n00b like me.
It’s always great to see your own products streamlining business and saving customers money - but optimization often has consequences.
JBoss Portal has a new [...]
Posted in Red Hat, Technology, Uncategorized, open source on May 18th, 2008
Last week I installed Fedora 9 on my laptop and so far I like what I see - the desktop and visual effects are pretty nice without being to much of a distraction. Security is pretty solid with encrypted disk and SE Linux if you need it. All in all - everything seems to hang [...]