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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tue Feb 17 19:31:00 PST 2009
[opensocial|google|social software]
I started a new blog on this site to explore what's possible with Google Friend Connect (GFC). It's called the G Friend Connect blog. I've added the GFC Members Gadget and I replaced Roller's built-in comment macro with the GFC Wall Gadget. In theory, if you have a Google, Yahoo or Open ID account, you should be able
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Tue Feb 17 18:47:56 PST 2009
[general]
NCSU and IW3C2 Sign Agreement:
It’s official! North Carolina State University and the International World Wide Web Steering Committee (IW3C2) based in Geneva, Switzerland, have reached agreement to host the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010) at the new Raleigh Convention Center on April 26-30,
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Mon Feb 16 08:16:26 PST 2009
[roller|apacheroller]
From the Roller project blog:
Ganesh Mathrubootham has been doing great work on the Media Blogging for Roller project and helping out in other ways in Roller development and support. So in January we nominated and voted him in as Roller's newest committer. Welcome Ganesh, we're very happy to have you on the
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Wed Feb 11 18:14:06 PST 2009
[photography|general|science|family]
You may remember that my dad, Charles Johnson, was working on a book that explains the science behind photography, from "quantum mechanics to physiology and art appreciation." He's finished now and while he negotiates with publishers he is making a limited number of copies available on CD, mostly to his photographer
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Fri Feb 06 09:58:34 PST 2009
[opensocial|roller|jspwiki|social software]
The day before the layoff axe fell at Sun, I blogged about my upcoming Shindig for Blogs and Wikis talk at ApacheCon EU in March. Since then, I've been working almost non-stop on finding a new gig and have had little time to work on my presentation. That's not good, because I have fairly ambitious plans for this talk.
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Wed Jan 28 12:00:02 PST 2009
[open source]
I just signed up for the
NC State University FOSS Fair 2009 on Monday, Feb. 2. I'm pretty excited that there's a GRASS GIS session on the list; that's where I got my start with open source software sometime in the previous century (GRASS was public domain back then, not GPL as it is today).
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Wed Jan 28 07:37:51 PST 2009
[twitter|general|triangle]
The first
Triangle Tweetup of the year is tomorrow at the stylin' Glenwood South facilities of Edge Office.
There's a
site now with an interesting
speaker line-up
and people
tweeting
about it (and food).
Count me in!
Update: Reminder the #triangletweetup is a food drive too, bring some nonperishables, info:
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Mon Jan 26 09:20:01 PST 2009
[sun|twitter|blogging|blogging]
Even when you're mentally prepared for a layoff and you know it's probably for the best, its still a life-changing shock when it happens, a loss. It's hard not to feel fear, anger, sadness, self-recrimination and all those stages that fellow RIFee David Van Couvering blogged about. I still cycle through those, but not
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Thu Jan 22 14:23:11 PST 2009
[sun|roller|sun|socialsite]
It was over four years ago when I discovered that Sun was using my software, Roller, to power blogs.sun.com. I was thrilled to go to work for the company back in 2004 and what an awesome cast of characters I've gotten to work with over the years. I really enjoyed the folks I worked with on the blogs.sun.com team, the
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Wed Jan 21 12:39:46 PST 2009
[shindig|apachecon|conferences|apacheroller|social software]
The other day I got the happy news that my one of my proposed sessions was accepted for ApacheCon EU. ApacheCon and Amsterdam are definitely among my favorite places to be, so I'm thrilled. You ought to go too; here's the information on the conference, which will include training, the hackathon and a
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Tue Jan 20 13:58:51 PST 2009
[opensocial|socialsite|social software]
I'm always happy to see Google talking about Project SocialSite in their OpenSocial presentations and pitches. We need all the help we can get with getting the word out.
Now, Rajdeep Dua of Google Developer Relations has put together a 25 page presentation on Project SocialSite Architecture with data model diagrams,
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Tue Jan 20 05:43:03 PST 2009
[general|family]
That's the view from my desk this morning. We woke up to snow in Raleigh for the first time in years. Here, even the threat of snow is enough to cancel school across the whole state, so the kids are ecstatic and outside perfecting their snowball combat skills. I'm trying to focus on getting back to work after a long
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Wed Jan 14 08:30:00 PST 2009
[roller|roller]
Here's the announcement from the Roller project blog:
It's been over a year since our last Roller release and we've fixed a couple dozen bugs in that time including an XSS vulnerability reported recently by Secunia.com. Now those fixes are available as an official Roller release, 4.0.1
Bugs fixed are listed in the
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Tue Jan 13 07:05:35 PST 2009
[blogging|blogging]
In case you were itching to comment about the new Fauxcoly theme or Eclectic Roller hacks, comments now work again. I had broken them in my quest for XHTML validation.
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Thu Jan 08 19:34:07 PST 2009
[roller|yui|apacheroller|themes]
Fauxcoly is the new Roller theme that I designed over the winter break and the one that you see here on this blog. I wanted a new theme that's simple, easy to maintain, exposes my non-blog activities like Twitter, explains itself and takes full advantage of Roller theme system. Initially, I was planning on
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Wed Jan 07 15:03:25 PST 2009
[roller|apacheroller]
Sun's CTO for UK and Ireland, Wayne Horkan, is a bit of a Roller hacker, and I mean that in the nicest way possible His blog has always been a showcase for what you can do with Roller template programming, although recently he has adopted a more simple and clean design. Wayne just posted a set of three interesting and
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Wed Jan 07 05:48:11 PST 2009
[rome|opensource|rss|java|feeds|atom]
Good news for ROME fans. Nick Lothian picked up the puck and is galloping towards the finish line (sorry, I'm terrible at sports analogies).
Nick Lothian on ROME dev:
I've gone and built some preview jars for the upcoming ROME 1.0RC2, ROME Fetcher
1.0RC2 and Modules 0.3 release.
Those jars can be found
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Tue Jan 06 05:59:36 PST 2009
[xhtml|roller|apacheroller|themes]
Believe it or not, I've never created an XHTML theme for
Roller and I didn't even notice the XHTML declaration when I put my new theme (which I'm calling Fauxcoly) together. I did notice when I got over 400 validation errors from the HTML validator. So, I worked for a couple of hours last night to fix the errors both
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Mon Jan 05 08:42:26 PST 2009
[yui|blogging|apacheroller|blogging|themes]
Happy New Year 2009 to one and all! I took a nice long break from work, complete with a Florida vacation, hot tubbing, theme parks and a mini-vacation to rest-up from the main vacation and now I'm back. I think I'm rested and ready to restart some things including work, of course, and this blog.
Restarting a blog is
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