Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 Web on Jan 3rd, 2009
It’s great to see Firefox’s market share is up again this month (according to Net Applications) – over 20% for the first time. The results reveal something interesting – that Firefox is increasingly the browser of choice (ie. large residential user base) whereas IE is still the corporate standard. Just as a reference point for [...]
Posted in Web on Dec 23rd, 2008
Just a reminder – if you want to keep current on news of JBoss releases, events, customers stories, etc. you can follow JBossNews on Twitter. We currently have almost 280 followers. And if you have your own JBoss related news – then send JBossNews a direct message.
Posted in Web on Dec 17th, 2008
I’ve been using Twitter for about 8 months and I like it. I like the conversational nature and the low time investment and the brevity. I like the new and hopefuly permanent reliability. I like some of the Twitter clients – Tweetdeck, Twitterific, iTweet, Twhirl. I like the mind-numbing simplicity.I like my fellow Tweeters. You [...]
Posted in open source, Web on Jun 3rd, 2008
Firefox has been my browser of choice since at least 1.5 (2004?) and it’s provided consistency across the various OS’s I’ve used during that time – Ubuntu, Windows 95, Mac OS/x and Fedora. There are a number of reports that Firefox is seriously eating into Microsoft’s dominant market share – start here. Mozilla are planning [...]
As I’ve said before – I find blogging hard to sustain – it takes some real time investment to do well. Twitter on the other hand – provides the same cathartic release with little of the overhead. But Twitter is *really struggling* these days – it was never great (in terms of availability) but lately [...]
Posted in Web on May 20th, 2008
For a short time today Twitter (the popular social, techno, micro-blogging web site, thingy) was actually working; I even managed to exchange a few Tweets. Which reminds me – how are Twitter going to actually, you know, make money. I’m not suggesting that making money is all there is to life but they have server [...]
Posted in Web on Apr 23rd, 2008
Ray Ozzie gets the Web. Which is a start – now he just needs to overcome the huge burden of Microsoft’s revenue base. That’s going to be the hard bit. It’ll be interesting to see how far Microsoft go to adopt standards and interoperability and open source – these were fundamental in the rapid growth [...]
A couple of related articles hit my (nicely organized) feed reader this morning. First, Tim Bray paints a bleak picture of Google’s Developer Platform – some concerns I shared earlier. Meanwhile CogHead are in the news with their Open Definition model – an attempt to build an open and collaborative environment for CogHead customers. Interesting [...]
Yesterday Google announced Google App Engine – essentially a competitor to AWS (Amazon Web Services) providing storage, execution and secure, reliable “web I/O”. Right now – you have to write your apps. in Python;but they also provide Django (web app framework for Python) – which is pretty neat from the little I’ve seen of it. [...]