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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dave Johnson
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Mon Jun 29 18:54:59 PDT 2009
[barcamprdu|general|triangle]
BarCampRDU 2009 is rapidly approaching (August 8, 2009) and the event is sold out with 250 registered attendees. Problem is, we're only about halfway to our funding goal. I guess it could be the economy or maybe it's event overload; doesn't it seem like we had a heckuva lot of tweetup-camp-athons around here
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Dave Johnson
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Tue Jun 16 19:24:04 PDT 2009
[photography|general|science|family]
To follow-up on my previous post on the topic: my father is starting to publish excerpts from his book Science for the Curious Photographer on Luminous Landscape.
His first piece is titled The Quest for Good Photographs and How the Brain Perceives Images and it's one of my favorite parts.
By the way, he's still
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Dave Johnson
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Tue Jun 09 13:00:03 PDT 2009
[opensocial|oslc|links]
Stutzman on WUNC's the State of Things Stutzman and others on the etiquette, the addiction and the future of Facebook
Is Twitter Really That Big? 40% of Twitter users haven't tweeted since 1st day, 25% not following anybody
YouTube - Towards Privacy-aware OpenSocial Applications Talk by Kun Liu of IBM Research on
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Dave Johnson
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Fri May 29 04:44:37 PDT 2009
[googlewave|sharepoint|lotusnotes|social software]
Wondering how Google Wave will impact the enterprise collaboration market? Look no further than the great collected wisdom of Twitter. Given that X equals Lotus Notes, Microsoft Sharepoint or Microsoft Exchange we have:
#googlewave will be major competition for X
#googlewave will drive positive change in X
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Dave Johnson
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Tue May 26 19:22:00 PDT 2009
[jazz|rsc|ibm|java|conferences|social software]
I've attended every JavaOne since 2004, but this year I've got new job and a new conference to attend. This year I'll be traveling to Orlando, FL and attending the Rational Software Conference also known as #rsc2000 in the twit'o'sphere.
I'm not going to be giving a talk, but I will be manning a demo pedestal and
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Dave Johnson
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Thu Apr 30 19:10:58 PDT 2009
[lotusconnections|jazz|general|ibm]
I've been at IBM for one month now and I'm just now starting to settle in and make some progress. I'm going to try to work some blogging back into my schedule and tell you about what I'm doing at work. For starters, here's a quick summary of my first impressions.
People
I'm working in IBM's Rational division, home of
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Dave Johnson
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Tue Apr 28 20:50:19 PDT 2009
[general]
Word went out this morning via
Twitter and other places but I'm just now getting to it here on my blog. Sorry folks, but you're the last to know. Like I said, they're going fast. At this point there are about 50 spots left. More than enough for all of my readers! Here's the registration link:
http://barcamprdu2009.ev
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Dave Johnson
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Thu Apr 23 20:00:49 PDT 2009
[opensocial|apache|socialsite|social software]
I took a break from blogging during my first couple of weeks at IBM. My blog broke and it took me a while to find the time and motivation to fix it, but now it's time to return. I think. I have been doing some internal blogging at IBM, but so far it's been mostly boring stuff: status reports and the like.
What I want
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Dave Johnson
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Fri Mar 27 10:17:27 PDT 2009
[shindig|sun|opensocial|apache|socialsite|social software]
Since January, the future of Project SocialSite has been in the hands of the SocialSite community. During that time, I continued working on the project almost because I think it's got great potential and I would really like to see it live on in some form. That's also why I continued to talk to Sun about the project.
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Dave Johnson
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Wed Mar 25 23:00:00 PDT 2009
[opensocial|oauth|roller|socialsite|social software]
In my earlier OAuth everywhere post I explained at a high level "how I got a Roller Gadget working, one that uses OAuth to call Roller and enables Roller to use OAuth to call back to the social network." I ended with some unanswered questions:
How do I add my gadget to SocialSite so users can install and use it?
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Dave Johnson
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Wed Mar 25 20:59:59 PDT 2009
[opensocial|roller|socialsite|jspwiki|social software]
The value of Project SocialSite is that it allows you to add social networking features, including the ability to run OpenSocial gadgets, to existing web sites and have those sites all using the same "social graph" of data about people and relationships. To demonstrate this, I've deployed SocialSite to my site,
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Dave Johnson
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Tue Mar 24 09:00:00 PDT 2009
[rome|atompub|oauth|roller|propono|feeds]
Yesterday I wrote about OAuth support in the upcoming Roller 5.0 release. Today I'm following up with a post about OAuth support in ROME Propono.
As you may remember, ROME Propono is a subproject of ROME, the Java-based RSS/Atom feed library. ROME Propono includes an AtomPub server library and an AtomPub client. I
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Dave Johnson
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Mon Mar 23 09:00:00 PDT 2009
[atompub|roller|oauth|roller]
Over the past month or so I've been adding OAuth support to just about every open source project that I can commit to. I added OAuth support to Roller so that you can now use OAuth to protect Roller's AtomPub server and other things. I also added OAuth support to ROME Propono's AtomPub client so you can now use Propono
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Dave Johnson
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Mon Mar 23 05:01:39 PDT 2009
[opensocial|atompub|oauth|social software]
I'm going to be following up my OAuth everywhere! post, with several more OAuth related posts this week. So, just in case you are wondering "why is Dave going off on this cockamamie OAuth tangent?", I'll take some time now to explain a little about OAuth to help you understand.
OAuth is a emerging protocol that one
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Dave Johnson
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Sun Mar 22 11:19:16 PDT 2009
[opensocial|oauth|apachecon|roller|jspwiki|social software]
I'm off to ApacheCon EU 2009 tomorrow in Amsterdam to speak on the topic of Shindig for Blogs and Wikis. I'm really looking forward to catching up with my Apache friends and colleagues. That's the conference venue in the photo on the right, the Mövenpick hotel (in the background behind the music hall).
I'm staying a
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Dave Johnson
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Fri Mar 20 13:00:04 PDT 2009
[links]
How I ended up with Apache Roller"I definitely recommend Roller for everyone that wants to have a powerful, stable and fast blog server."
Sitemaps XML template for Roller 4.x"Roller makes it very easy by using the Velocity templating engine and exposing a lot of data via model objects
Apache Roller 4.0 theme upgrade
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Dave Johnson
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Thu Mar 19 13:00:04 PDT 2009
[sun|cloudcomputing|ibm|links]
Forbes.com: A Rorschach Test for IBM and Sun"Even as Sun has stiffened into a slow-moving, self-entangled behemoth over the past decade, IBM has gradually shifted into the nimble mode of a start-up."
IBM's bid to acquire Sun might cost jobs - The Denver Post"Sun is known for having a lot of cool technology but not
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Dave Johnson
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Tue Mar 17 07:55:00 PDT 2009
[social software]
I was invited to talk to the class COMP 380: Computers and Society at the University of North Carolina on the topic of Social Software at work, so I spent some time working up a presentation and set of slides. I gave the talk last night to three sections of the class and it seemed to go over pretty well. There was some
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Dave Johnson
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Sat Mar 14 13:00:02 PDT 2009
[socialnetworking|web2.0|politics|links]
Bad Times Spur Entrepreneurship, But There's a Catch - Boing Boing"The day we have national health care is the day that we unleash a wave of entrepreneurship the likes of which we've never seen before."
Ben Hyde - The Misery of Opportunity: Barry Schwartz on Paradox of Choice"those who maximize a job choice did in
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Dave Johnson
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Thu Mar 12 08:05:47 PDT 2009
[general|ibm]
If you've been following my tweets you know that I accepted a new job yesterday. What I didn't reveal was my new employer. Before the end of this month I'll be joining IBM/Rational and working as a Web 2.0 Architect. I'm not sure how much I can say about what I'll be working on, so I won't be blogging too much about
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Dave Johnson
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Fri Mar 06 08:10:54 PST 2009
[opensocial|openoauth|apacheroller|rest|social software]
For my ApacheCon EU talk, which is now just a couple of weeks away, I'm going to talk about Shindig for Blogs and Wikis. I promised to show social features and OpenSocial Gadgets running inside Apache Roller and Apache JSPWiki (incubating). This post explains, at a very high level, how I got a Roller Gadget working,
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Dave Johnson
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Sun Feb 22 09:00:00 PST 2009
[links]
Charlie Rose - A conversation with Marc Andreessen Great interview covering social networking and internet tech in general
Fred Stutzman: How Facebook Should Address User Rights"If Facebook were a country, it would more accurately resemble North Korea or China than the United States."
The Angry Drunk: Scoble Just
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Dave Johnson
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Sat Feb 21 05:32:13 PST 2009
[rss|feeds|atom]
Aaron Swartz: As chaunceyt pointed out, the new stimulus bill’s implementation instructions require that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS:
For each of the near term reporting requirements (major communications, formula block grant allocations, weekly reports) agencies are required to provide
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Dave Johnson
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Fri Feb 20 10:53:27 PST 2009
[general|conferences|triangle|barcamp]
We've got a date and a venue for BarCamp RDU 2009, so mark your calendars:
BarCamp RDU 2009 - August 8 at Red Hat headquarters in Raleigh, NC
More information and registration coming soon...
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Dave Johnson
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Thu Feb 19 09:57:37 PST 2009
[opensource|roller|mentoring|rss|java|apacheroller|atom]
For the past five months I've had the pleasure of mentoring two San Jose State Univ. graduate students, Ganesh Mathrubootham and Tanuja Varkanthe, who are working on a project for classes CMP 295A and B. They picked one of the projects that I first proposed for Google Summer of Code and then for Glassfish's student
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