Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2009
I’m hosting the JBoss MASS project kickoff meeting on Wednesday 18th February at 3pm EST. Tentative Agenda : Introductions Priorities Define Charter Scope of work Dial-in numbers and Agenda are on the wiki : https://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-13334 If you’re interested in contributing to the discussion or want to learn more – feel free to join us and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 7th, 2009
This year JBoss World will be colocated with Red Hat summit in Chicago from September 1st to the 4th. Last week we opened the call for papers and you have just over a month to submit a proposal. The main categories are : Emerging and Next-generation Technology: Tell us how you are using and/or extending [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2009
Just one last reminder – the JBoss Virtual Experience is next Wednesday (11th Feb), starting at 9am ET. It’s free, you don’t need to leave your desk and there’s a great agenda. Register Now !!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2009
There’s an open position for a full-time Senior Technical Writer for JBoss Application Server – location Brisbane, Australia. If you are familiar with JBoss AS and can write really well - apply here.
Posted in Enterprise, Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2009
Pete Muir (fellow Brit. with an incredibly plummy accent) tipped me off that he’s just released Alpha 2 of Web Beans (the reference implementation of JSR-299 : “Java Contexts and Dependency Injection”). Pete says that it’s about 80% complete – with only a couple of features missing. (Pete’s announcement, Release Notes, Download) You’ll need JBoss [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2009
RHEL 5.3 was released this week and one of the major new features is the inclusion of and full production support for OpenJDK. As I mentioned earlier – that’s great news for OpenJDK adoption and great news for RHEL and JBoss customers – Red Hat can now support a full Enterprise Linux and Java stack [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2009
When I created this blog I decided to update the header image with a suitably seasonal picture at the start of each season. I’m a little late, but the recent chill here in North Carolina reminded me that it’s no longer Fall and also gave me the opportunity to get outside and take some pictures. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2009
Today Red Hat announced the availability of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 5.3 (press release, blog entry) one of the major enhancement is the inclusion of and full production support for OpenJDK 1.6 : Inclusion of OpenJDK : OpenJDK is a high-performance, fully open source implementation of Java SE 6. OpenJDK is based on the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2009
Dear lazy web, I find the best way to get up to speed on a subject is to immerse yourself in it for a few days – ie. conferences are a good investment. I’m looking to attend two conferences this year one that covers cloud computing and infrastructure and another that covers RIA (not one [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2009
Back in June I stumbled across code_swarm – a very nice visualization of the commit history of a software project. I hinted on an internal list that it would be nice to see visualizations for JBoss projects and lo-and-behold – they’ve started appearing (I’m not suggesting for one moment that anyone takes a blind bit [...]