Blogging Roller

... an obligatory Sun-related post to counter all that borg talk

The news had already leaked out via blogs, but now it's official: Java Studio Enterprise is going open source as part of Netbeans 5.5. I'm really looking forward to 5.5. I'm most interesed in the Subversion support, but I'll definitely be checking out the 2-way UML modeler and the new XML tools as well. No doubt about it, the 5.5 feature set will lure a lot of new developers to Netbeans.

Congrats to Niall Kennedy, formerly the Technorati community manager, who has accepted a job with Microsoft to work on RSS/Atom platform technologies. This is great news for all unless it means an end to the Om and Niall PodSessions.

As I was researching my chapter on the Windows RSS platform for RSS and Atom in Action I came up with a list of questions based on the IE7 previews. Scoble hooked me up with Walter VonKoch, who kindly answered them all. Read on [Read More]