Latest Links - misc
It's time to catch up on blogging and I'm going to start by going through my backlog of links and adding some commentary, but not in this post; these are miscellaneous links that don't fit nicely into my other posts.
- Slashdot | Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org
"If Google really wanted to deliver a knockout punch to Microsoft, it would integrate OpenOffice with Google Docs" -- and pump some money into OOo development - Headius: The Power of the JVM
"And while JRuby and Groovy will probably spend the next few months one-upping each other, we've both proven something far more important: the JVM is an *excellent* platform for dynamic languages. Don't let anyone tell you it's not." - SpringSource Blog - Open Source, Open Strategy
My 141 char summary: open source good, but we need money. we won't relicense existing parts, but we'll GPL the full-stack so we alone can ride it to the bank - Kohsuke Kawaguchi: GlassFish v3 just got embeddable
"GlassFish glassfish = new GlassFish(); glassfish.minimallyConfigure(8080);" - Derby: Using the bulk import and export procedures
closest thing to mysqldump in Derby land - Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL
"it is time to include a simple, reliable basic replication feature in the core system" - Distributed Caching with Memcached
Nice how-it-works article on memcached.