Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development
Dave Johnson in General
08:22AM Dec 11, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Roller
06:24PM Dec 09, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Java
10:23AM Dec 08, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Blogging
08:18AM Dec 08, 2005
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Cedric Beust: dynamic languages are not making fast progress in developer mindshareI wonder when that was published. The evidence from Tim O'Reilly seems to contradict such a claim. Tim says Python book sales are up 20% and Ruby are up 1552%. Quote found via James Robertson.
Dave Johnson in Java
06:19AM Dec 08, 2005
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Dave Johnson in General
04:55AM Dec 08, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Blogging
02:50PM Dec 07, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Blogging
06:58AM Dec 06, 2005
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Linda Skrocki: Another cool thing about the [Network Computing launch] event in NYC is the Blogs Engineering team was asked to participate. So, if you're there, stop by the OpenSource pods. Allen, blogs.sun.com/Roller Engineer, will be there (probably in a suit...someone please snap a picture) to answer your blogs/Roller questions and will demo some of the new Roller stuff recently released.
Dave Johnson in Roller
05:36AM Dec 06, 2005
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Jonathan Schwartz: A computer that runs five times faster than Dell and HP's fastest Xeon systems. A computer that's one quarter the size. That runs Solaris, and will run Linux and *BSD (and even Windows isn't out of the question). Based on a 9.6 Ghz 8-core Niagara chip available in volume, and compatible with the $120 billion dollar SPARC installed base. A computer that runs the internet like it was purpose built for search, for voice over IP, for video streams and web services and database transactions.
Dave Johnson in Sun
04:13AM Dec 06, 2005
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Sam Whitmore: This is the last Closet Deadhead podcast. We werenât shut down. In light of the Archive.org debacle, we simply sense that itâs time to go. Thank you for all your support, and stay in touch at www.closetdeadhead.com.How very sad. Ten years after Jerry passed, Dead fans like Sam (and I) mourn another loss.
Dave Johnson in General
07:03PM Dec 05, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Roller
10:05AM Dec 05, 2005
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That's the title of Cory Doctorow's opening keynote at ApacheCon 2005, which is now one week away. I'm starting to get excited. Last year was my first ApacheCon and it was probably the most enjoyable conference I've ever attended. Here are the sessions I'm most interested in this year:
This year, I'm giving a talk. I'm speaking on day one, Monday Dec. 12 at 2PM. Here's the abstract:
Roller is the open source Java blog server that drives the popular blogs.sun.com, jroller.com and numerous other blog sites. Currently making its way through the Apache incubation process, Roller is built on a host of Apache technologies including Struts, Velocity, Lucene, Jakarta Commons, XML-RPC and more. This overview, a primer for Roller users and contributors, covers the Roller feature set, architecture, lessons learned, project status and future plans.
I'll be at the Sun booth in the 4PM break after my talk, so stop by and say hi.
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Dave Johnson in Roller
04:38AM Dec 05, 2005
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For the first time since three-year-old Leo was born, Andi and I dumped *all* of the kids off with my parents (thanks Mom and Dad) in Chapel Hill and headed out to movie, dinner and a show. We saw Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash bio-pic. Ebert gave it the thumbs up, Rolling Stone says its Oscar material and we both loved it.
After the movie we were hoping to try Panang again, but we didn't have time for dinner. We had to meet Andi's brother and head back to Raleigh to see Carbon Leaf at the Lincoln Theater. Carbon Leaf put on an enjoyable show, but the music didn't really grab me, at least not enough to inspire any CD purchases. If I had to triangulate (using my out-of-date reference materal), I'd say they were Connells-style white-boy jam-pop, with celtic influences (penny whistle included) and Phish-like sing-along lyrics.
All and all, a very nice and kid-free night out.
Dave Johnson in General
02:40PM Dec 03, 2005
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Dave Johnson in General
11:07AM Dec 03, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Links
12:12PM Dec 02, 2005
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I hate to be a party pooper, but what's the big deal with the "Red October" announcement?
In case you haven't heard, Sun has made it's entire software stack free and is bundling it all under the name Solaris Enterprise System. Big chunks of it are open source and some pieces are not, but now everything is free. It includes everything: operating sytem, database server, identity server, messaging server, collaboration server, portal server, SunRay server software, C/C++ IDE, high-end Java/UML IDE, web-centric Java/JSF IDE, office productivity suite and more.
Why is that a big deal? Jonathan Schwartz has already told the world that all Sun software will eventually be open source. So free and open source is not news. In fact, what's the hold up! And if you want any form of support, you still have to pay for licenses (contrary to what The Register thinks). Nothing new about that.
So what's the big deal? Is this going to get more customers trying our software, buying services/support and our mighty servers? Are we doing something that Microsoft, IBM and others are afraid to do? Does Solaris Enterprise System beat the crap out of Red Hat Enterprise system? I'm just an engineer, not hooked into Sun marketing strategy and I'm speaking for myself (as always here) but I bet the answer to those questions is yes. That's the big deal.
Dave Johnson in Sun
10:46AM Dec 02, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Roller
05:34AM Dec 02, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Java
03:14AM Nov 30, 2005
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Dave Johnson in Blogging
03:11AM Nov 30, 2005
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