Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2009
From the “release early and often” files : JBoss Messaging 2.0 beta is out. According to JBM lead, Tim Fox – New features include, performance, performance, performance, flexible clustering, seamless high-availability, large message support. See Tim’s announcement for details. Thomas Diesler has some thoughts on how the JBoss Microcontainer could fully implement the OSGi spec. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 20th, 2009
Red Hat/JBoss Sessions at EclipseCon2009 BoF: Linux Extended IDE – Linux Tracing a BOF by Andrew Overholt et.al. Monday, 19:30, 1 hour and 15 minutes | Room 211 Hands-On: Using the new Common Builder for Push-Button PDE Builds a 4-hour tutorial by Nick Boldt, Andrew Overholt, Andrew Niefer (IBM). Monday, 08:00, 4 hours | Room [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2009
Here’s an interesting customer story that demonstrates just how long JBoss has been used for serious production workloads. The Ecuadorian Internal Revenue Service has been using JBoss App Server (and more recently JBoss App Platform) to run their business since 2002 – they started on version 2.4 – I didn’t even know there was a [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Business, open source on Dec 19th, 2008
Three surveys ([1] [2] [3,4]] ) have been rattling around my almost empty pre-christmas inbox this week which give us some useful insight into how open source is being adopted; what drives adoption and what inhibits it. Reading across the surveys – I come up with the following observations and few surprises : Open Source [...]
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
Lunar Eclipse, originally uploaded by sharps. The clouds cleared enough for me to take a some pictures of the lunar eclipse tonight. The star above is Regulus, and Saturn is on the left. This was the only picture worth posting. My setup is simple – Nikon D40, tripod and remote shutter release.