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Dave Johnson
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Sun Mar 14 06:47:26 PDT 2010
[maven|roller|ant|java]
I was a Maven hater and resisted it for a long time but over the years Maven has gotten much better, it's well supported in IDEs and as far as I can tell, Maven has replaced Ant as the de facto build system for Java projects. If you want new developers be able to easily build, debug and run your code via command or
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Mon Mar 08 22:56:53 PST 2010
The latest URI Template draft is now available: draft-gregorio-uritemplate-04.
Warning that the syntax has changed substantially from -03 if you haven't been following along. As always, please
direct feedback to the W3C URI mailing list.
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Mon Mar 08 06:40:57 PST 2010
Dave Winer:
Unless Google also adds a disclaimer of all patents on all the new stuff, I'd be very careful about which ones we adopt.
The Google Data Protocol Patent License:
Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, Google
hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive,
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Dave Johnson
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Thu Feb 25 04:54:11 PST 2010
[opensource|roller|blogging|java]
I blogged about Alfonso Romero's Apache Roller 4.0 Beginner's Guide book before. It's a great resource for folks who want to get the most out of their Apache Roller-based blogs, and not just beginners. As you can see in the photo on the right, I've got my copy. You can get yours directly from Pakt publishing:
Buy a
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Sun Feb 21 20:58:15 PST 2010
Here are my slides (pdf)
(OpenOffice) from my presentation
"Threading is not a model" from PyCon.
Be warned that they aren't very useful, there are no speaker notes and the slides
themselves are pretty light on content, except for near the end of the deck where
it gets into Stackless Python, Go
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Wed Feb 17 18:57:24 PST 2010
The schedule isn't up yet, but I just found out today
that my submission got accepted for this year's Triangle
Game Conference. The really great news is that Christopher's
submission also got accepted. This will be the first time
I've presented at the same conference as my son!
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Tue Feb 16 12:53:38 PST 2010
Posted here because I got hung up on this.
If you add a link to your profile, but it doesn't show
up when you try to force a recrawl,
you need to make sure the "This is a profile page about me" checkbox
is checked in your profile.
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Sun Feb 14 20:19:51 PST 2010
Thanks to Ade, the
Python version of mimeparse now has pirate
tests.
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Sun Feb 14 19:57:53 PST 2010
So, Buzz is finally out. We've
been dogfooding it internally for a while and it's been great.
One of the best aspects of Buzz is the use of open standards.
It's just feeds. And if you want to hook up a new data source
to Buzz,
it is just a matter of adding a link/@rel='me'. That two
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Sun Feb 14 00:19:36 PST 2010
Four years ago today I decided I wanted to do something a little
different for Valentine's Day, so I found some red card stock
in the house and began cutting out hearts. Lots of hearts. 2 inches
across, about 50 in total. I then began sticking them up around
the house, not randomly, but in places where
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Mon Feb 08 22:38:45 PST 2010
At a previous employer we made tensile testing equipment.
Now for tensile testing
a material you cut it into a dogbone shape
and then pull at each end of the dogbone, plotting out the
change in length of the specimen against how much load is on
the specimen. Once you have all that data you can
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Mon Feb 08 07:44:51 PST 2010
Space.com:
The NASA budget request, which actually included a slight budget boost up
to $19 billion, would cut out the Constellation completely, extend the
International Space Station's mission through at least 2020, and set
aside $6 billion over five years to support commercial
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Mon Jan 11 15:33:23 PST 2010
On Wednesday January 13, 2010 our local Microsoft Developer Evangelist will be presenting
a sneak peak at some of the upcoming Windows Azure content. As we gather to talk about
Azure, I thought it was only proper that we take a moment and say it together. Now,
as much as I know all of my southern friends down here like
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Dave Johnson
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Tue Jan 05 16:16:46 PST 2010
[ibm|opensocial]
Here's another thing I've been involved with at IBM: the Enterprise OpenSocial white paper which was published just before Christmas 2009.
The paper is a group effort, written by folks from Alfresco, Atlassian, Cisco, Cubetree, Google, IBM, SAP and SocialText. It explains why OpenSocial is relevant and "ready for both
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Dave Johnson
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Mon Jan 04 15:25:58 PST 2010
[jazz|lotusconnections|ibm|rational|apacheroller]
Here's something I've been closely involved with during my entire IBM career (almost 9 months now): making software development more social by integrating Rational Team Concert and Lotus Connections.
In case you don't know, Team Concert is Rational's "complete agile collaborative development environment" with
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Dave Johnson
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Thu Dec 17 17:04:13 PST 2009
[roller]
Here it is:
Isn't that cool? An actual book on Apache Roller and I did not have to write it. I did review the drafts and it looks good, especially for beginners. It's filled with helpful step-by-step instructions and screenshots. I also submitted a forward, but I don't have a copy of the final book yet so I'm not
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Dave Johnson
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Mon Dec 14 10:32:02 PST 2009
[jazz|ibm|opensocial|socialsite]
It's been over a month since the Enterprise 2.0 OpenSocial panel and since we were never able to get a group blog post together, I've decided to publish a short summary of what I said about IBM on the panel. I'm paraphrasing myself from memory so this is not exactly what I said but it should be pretty close:
IBM has
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Sun Nov 15 11:31:57 PST 2009
[pdc]
Next week I’m going to be attending the Microsoft
Professional Developers Conference or PDC. I’m very fortunate to have been
able to attend three PDC’s previously in 2003, 2005, and 2008. These events included
the first looks at Windows Longhorn, Avalon, Aero, Indigo, IE7, Office 12 and “the
ribbon”, first looks
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Dave Johnson
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Sun Nov 15 07:59:18 PST 2009
[widgets|ibm|opensocial|wookie|socialsite|apacheroller]
(Last week, I returned after a week of vacation and a week of conferences in the SF bay area. Instead of posting my trip reports to the limited audience that reads my internal IBM blog, I'm going to post them here so that everybody can benefit from them.)
Here's my report from ApacheCon US, focusing on the
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Dave Johnson
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Wed Nov 11 19:52:00 PST 2009
[googlewave|socialmedia|openid|policy|links]
Mine, all mine (& theirs too) [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]"Sun has created a licensing option for every employee that simply shares ownership of everything that's posted equally between Sun and the blogger"
82 Social Media Policies from the book Social Media Governance by Chris Boudreaux
OpenID Pilot Program to be
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Dave Johnson
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Mon Nov 09 07:49:06 PST 2009
[nosql|ibm|couchdb|hadoop]
(I just returned to work after vacation and a week of conferences in the SF bay area. Instead of posting my trip reports to the limited audience that reads my internal IBM blog, I'm going to post them here so that everybody can benefit from them.)
After arriving at ApacheCon on Monday night and eating way too much
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Dave Johnson
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Mon Nov 09 07:07:19 PST 2009
[sun|salmon|ibm|opensocial|atompub|foaf|apacheroller]
(I just returned to work after vacation and a week of conferences in the SF bay area. Instead of posting my trip reports to the limited audience that reads my internal IBM blog, I'm going to post them here so that everybody can benefit from them.)
On Monday Nov. 2, I attended Social Web Camp at Sun's Santa Clara
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Dave Johnson
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Tue Oct 06 05:19:05 PDT 2009
[general]
On Wednesday November fourth I'll be speaking at two conferences on the same day: ApacheCon US in Oakland, CA and Enterprise 2.0 in San Francisco. Here's a write-up of what I will be speaking about.
Enterprise 2.0: Enterprise OpenSocial. This will be a panel discussion with representatives from Atlassian, SocialText,
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Dave Johnson
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Tue Sep 22 18:15:28 PDT 2009
[roller|apachecon|apacheroller]
It's been a while since I have blogged about it, but I haven't completely stopped working on Roller. In case you're wondering what's up in Roller-land, here's an update based on an email I recently sent to the Roller dev mailing list.
I've been doing some weekend and evening work on Roller 5.0 to get it ready for
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Thu Sep 03 14:31:32 PDT 2009
Last weekend I attended and spoke at the Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter. This free,
day long event featured a wide range of content presented by a number of presenters.
The organizers did an awesome job and deserver a big pat on their back for their efforts.
During the afternoon I presented a Design Tools talk,
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Wed Aug 26 19:06:39 PDT 2009
Last weekend I attended and spoke at the Atlanta Silverlight Firestarter. This free,
day long event featured a wide range of content presented by a number of presenters.
The organizers did an awesome job and deserver a big pat on their back for their efforts.
During the afternoon I presented a Design Tools talk,
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davidbloom
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Wed Aug 26 05:01:28 PDT 2009
[web/tech|web design]
GWT quiz question
Be the MVP
GWT wiki
gwtSite – Unofficial GWT Blog
onGWT – Lots of GWT Tutorials and Articles
group
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davidbloom
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Fri Aug 21 21:45:47 PDT 2009
[web/tech|web design]
A basic GWT menu example
gwt 2.0 preview
GXT and eclipse
authentication example
Mr Bloch at Google
GWT future
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davidbloom
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Sat Aug 15 14:26:20 PDT 2009
[web/tech|web design]
This video begins the subject of GWT design choices. The video touches on a few thing like the :
HandlerManager class in GWT 1.6
GwtMocking
MVP and testing the presenter
EventBus
This was found on this post - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1234389/whats-your-recommendation-for-architecting-gwt-applications-mvc-
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Thu Aug 13 21:22:09 PDT 2009
[silverlight]
Along with the launch of Silverlight 3, a number of new controls were introduced in
the Silverlight Toolkit. One control worth taking a look at if you deal with any sort
of data entry forms in your applications is the DataForm.
The quick and dirty demo is to take an object, in this case Photo.cs
public class
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Thu Aug 13 20:21:46 PDT 2009
[silverlight]
Every time I present on Silverlight I make a point to make sure people check
out download and install the Silverlight Toolkit. After installing the developer
tools, this should be your next step?
Why you ask? Controls! Controls! Controls!
In order to ship more frequent updates of controls and not be as closely
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Dave Johnson
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Wed Aug 12 13:00:04 PDT 2009
[barcamprdu|general|triangle]
BarCampRDU 2009 was a great success, if I don't say so myself. Here's my brief review. We had excellent turn-out, lots of great session pitches and lots of great sessions. Everything went very smoothly and our estimates for meals, t-shirts and party-budget were spot on. We received lots of positive feedback on Twitter
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Dave Johnson
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Tue Aug 11 18:12:00 PDT 2009
[lotusconnections|googlewave|opensocial|chrome|eclipse|blogging|links]
Your blog still loves you"it's time to use the web again to store our ideas, and instead of relying on Silicon Valley companies to link our stuff together, let's just use the Internet."
ZDNet Asia: 'Ferociously loyal' users to stand by Sun"47,000 enterprise customers and a ferociously loyal customer base"
The
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Dave Johnson
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Tue Aug 11 17:09:21 PDT 2009
[shindig|opensocial|apachecon|wookie|open source|socialsite]
The early-bird special ends on August 14, so you'd better get moving.
Sign up for ApacheCon US by 14 August and save up to $500!
This year's ApacheCon US promises to deliver our most extensive program to date, and largest anticipated gathering of the global Apache community to celebrate the ASF's milestone 10th
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davidbloom
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Mon Aug 10 16:39:09 PDT 2009
[web/tech|web design]
Noticed there is a Google Technology Group (GTUG) in the Triangle. Their Twitter feed is http://twitter.com/trigtug
Their You Tube Group http://www.youtube.com/user/gtugs
Resources http://sites.google.com/a/gtugs.org/www/resources
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Dave Johnson
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Mon Aug 10 13:52:47 PDT 2009
[twitter|friendfeed|googlereader|socialnetworking|blogging|facebook|social software]
(Note that I wrote this over weekend, before we all learned about Facebook acquiring FriendFeed. It's hard thinking about how things will change because we have no idea what Facebook will do with FriendFeed, but I'm guessing that this acquisition will end-up making Google Reader a more central part of my flow.)
Every
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Dave Johnson
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Fri Aug 07 14:47:26 PDT 2009
[general]
As you might know, I'm involved with organizing BarCampRDU again this year, doing the sponsor-wrangling and attendee registration duties. It's been a lot easier and stress-free than last year because I've been through it once before and so has most of the committee. No matter the stress-level, the end-result is well
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Tue Aug 04 10:03:47 PDT 2009
I’ll be celebrating my 9th wedding anniversary by giving a Silverlight 3 presentation
to the Triangle .Net User Group in Raleigh NC
on Aug 12th 2009.
“Join us for a walk through many of the powerful new features in Silverlight
3 and see how they can help you be productive writing Rich Internet
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Tue Aug 04 08:31:24 PDT 2009
The date has been selected for the 2009 Raleigh Code Camp. It’s going to take place
this year on Saturday September 19th in Raleigh, NC. The call for
speakers is out, and you can submit your talks at www.codecamp.org for
the event. We’re looking forward to another stellar event!
If you have never attended a Code Camp
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Dave Johnson
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Sun Aug 02 13:04:33 PDT 2009
[sun|feeds|socialsoftware|opensource|general|blogging|ibm|java|webdev]
Crammed into one post...
After a month of blog neglect, the automatic Latest Links posts from my Delicious.com account started to pile up in my blog editor. Back in the glory days of this blog, I blogged about things instead just saving links or tweeting about them and would never have let a month go by without
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Dave Johnson
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Sat Aug 01 10:29:16 PDT 2009
[blogging]
I think can stand behind a Service Level Agreement (SLA) of one blog post per month. Oh look, it's August 1st. I'm done for the month.
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Mon Jul 20 21:16:20 PDT 2009
[trinug;wpf]
The date has been selected for the 2009 Raleigh Code Camp. It’s going to take place
this year on Saturday September 15th in Raleigh, NC. The call for speakers is out,
and you can submit your talks at www.codecamp.org for
the event. We’re looking forward to another stellar event!
If you have never attended a Code Camp
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Sat Jul 11 09:27:07 PDT 2009
Friday at a launch event host in San Francisco and streamed live around the world,
Microsoft publically released Silverlight 3 and Expression 3. The event include on
overview keynote highlighting some partner projects as well as deep dive silverlight
training sessions. Much of the content is available at
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Mon Jul 06 19:30:56 PDT 2009
The following arrived in the inbox tonight via MSDN Flash:
Microsoft Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 Launch
Microsoft Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 will be unveiled at a virtual launch event
on July 10, 2009. Attend the event at www.seethelight.com on
July 10 to watch the keynote sessions and see new
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Dave Johnson
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Wed Jul 01 08:35:26 PDT 2009
[general]
IBM Rational has just released a 64-page book on Collaborative Application Life-cycle Management (C/ALM) that explains in detail how Rational's Jazz-based tools fit together to support the full software development and delivery life-cycle.
You can get the book at InfoQ. Registration is required (and free):
Scaling
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