Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Cogitation, Google on Jul 7th, 2011
My opinion on G+ (based on about an hour of tinkering) : G+ will be of limited utility until the majority of people I know or care about is using it (ie. it has to catch up with FB and Twitter) Circles – great start but needs finishing – need more set theory – subsets, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2009
JBoss adding muscle to Apache CXF. We’ll be increasing our commitment to Apache CXF – in term of both resource and expertise and fully support CXF in future versions of our products. More from Alessio Saldano (JBoss WS Lead), Dan Kulp (PMC Chair for CXF) and Sacha (JBoss CTO). Talking of Sacha – he’s just [...]
Posted in Google on Dec 11th, 2008
Today Red Hat announced a couple of things : 1. that we’ve signed Google’s corporate contributor agreement 2. that we’re adopting GWT (Google Web Toolkit) as a core part of JBoss Middleware The world doesn’t need another Java framework for developing rich AJAX apps. so we’ve decided to go with what we think is a [...]
Posted in Google on Oct 1st, 2008
Google have made their 2001 search index available and have linked it to the Wayback Machine. I couldn’t resist and did a quick vanity search to see if I existed on the webertubes back in 2001. Just three hits – a couple from 1997 on a CORBA mailing list (shudder) and another advertising a class [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 2nd, 2008
[root@localhost sharps]# yum install chrome Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments No package chrome available. Nothing to do [root@localhost sharps]# Isn’t Google missing the key AlphaGeek / Early adopter constituent ? Last time I was at a technical conference – it was PowerBooks and home-brew linux distro’s all the way [...]
Posted in TabSweep on Jun 23rd, 2008
Office neighbour Aaron Darcy chatting with Cote from Redmonk about our JBoss on Amazon EC2 beta. No sooner was the ink dry on the annoucement – the JBoss Portal team show you how to get JBoss Portal running in the cloud as well – which, as you would expect, is like running JBoss Portal anywhere [...]
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. [...]
Posted in Web on Apr 5th, 2008
One thing that’s been nagging me for a while is the chronically disorganized state of my feeds. I promised myself I’d spend some time rationalizing them before I start my new job. So this morning I did just that while watching Jack at soccer. I’ve been playing with several feed readers over the years (Thunderbird, [...]