Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in java, open source on Feb 16th, 2010
The JBoss AS team moved to a more rapid and incremental release cycle with the 6.x family and the second milestone was released today (release notes, download, repo.). The release was lead by Brian Stansberry and new features include :
Servlet 3.0 / JBoss Web 3.0
JPA 2.0 / Hibernate 3.5
JAX-RS 1.0 / RESTEasy 2.0
Microcontainer 2.2
More detail [...]
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. It will [...]
Posted in TabSweep on Sep 23rd, 2008
Just when I though TSS was dead – SpringSource go and prove me wrong with a 188 reply thread – feels like TSS 2003 ! But man it must be ugly having your business model reviewed in public – it will be interesting to see how SpringSource respond. Now EJB3, Seam and Web Beans will [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2008
Reposting here, an entry from the Nancy Cooper blog. I’ve been meaning to post something today but these words work better than any I could write :
Nancy was murdered.
We are bereft. While the family have lost “a spoke in their wheel”, we have lost the hub of ours.
Hopefully those affected can draw on the strength [...]
Posted in Cogitation on Jun 20th, 2008
Surely the most important Tweet of the decade :
Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!! about 2 hours ago from web
What do you do when you’ve established yourself as one of the largest, most sucessful software [...]
Posted in Cogitation, Red Hat on Jun 10th, 2008
I wonder if Mike Desjardins has found a niche – popularizing Open Source technology through music. The lyrics are pretty good – though we might have to have them reviewed by the Hibernate team for technical accuracy and consistency
A different perspective on our Solar system from the NASA’s Cassini probe – the pictures [...]