Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in open source, Red Hat, Technology, Uncategorized 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 [...]
Posted in open source, Red Hat, Technology on May 8th, 2008
There was a time when when the main selling point of (Free) Open Source was cost and consumers of the technology we’re willing to make compromises in other areas. I think that’s changed and Enterprise adoption is one of the causes. If your are responsible for maintaining your organization’s business crtitcal infrastructure – you’re not [...]
Posted in Red Hat, Technology on May 3rd, 2008
For me, the main attraction of JavaOne is the opportunity to connect email addresses to faces – ie. it’s a great social and netorking opportunity – nearly everyone in Java-land (and beyond) will be there. This year, it looks like JBoss will have a pretty decent attendance. As well as the usual developer, enterprise Java, [...]
Posted in Technology on Apr 5th, 2008
Dear lazy web. As of next week; and for the first time in many years I’ll be suffering a commute twice a day. I’m hoping it’ll be quick – 20 minutes or so; but still – that’s the best part of an hour a day I’ll lose. So, I’m looking for some good daily podcasts [...]
Posted in Marketing, open source, Technology on Mar 26th, 2008
This is article explains the shortcomings of the way web application providers typically engage potential customers – ie. the web form. I wonder how much time people spend filling in these dumb forms (never to return to the site) – what a waste – for all concerned. The article got me thinking about technology adoption [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 12th, 2008
Sun’s innovative Modular Data Center (aka BlackBox) will be at the SAS Institute Campus in my hometown of Cary, North Carolina today. I had a good look around when the BlackBox tour started last year in California; and I would definitely recommend taking some time out to take a look – here’s a video introduction. [...]
Posted in Technology on Mar 11th, 2008
By way of Joerg Moellenkamp – here’s one cool video of the 4 turbo, 1001 hp Bugatti Veyron. I’m no motor-head but this car is a thing of beauty with some incredible technology to nudge it to a top speed of 407 km/h.
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 11th, 2008
As a technologist I’ve managed to completely avoid the world of databases; I think it had something to do with a bad reaction to relational algebra in a CS class. However – my employer has made its aspirations clear so I thought I should at least take some interest. IDC have just released their RDBMS [...]