Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development
A reasonable check-list for selecting an open source project:
How I select Open Source projects: An Open Source project is more than its set of tools. But this post is not about what is better, github or ASF. Much has been said already about it (and too much bullshit). What really bugs me is that people seem to choose Open Source projects after the tools the projects use. Here is my personal list after which I choose projects.
Dave Johnson in Open Source 02:00AM Jan 31, 2012
Apparently 2001 called and asked for its office suite back.
IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork | ZDNet : This move cant come as too much of a surprise. In July 2011, IBM started donating its Symphony code to the Apache Foundation, which is now overseeing the remains of the OpenOffice project. I say remains because most of the development energy in the OpenOffice family has been going to the LibreOffice fork. Many users and Linux distributors, such as Ubuntu, have replaced OpenOffice with LibreOffice.
Dave Johnson in IBM
01:53AM Jan 31, 2012
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Nice coverage of Wayin in CNN Money:
Scott McNealy's Wayin weighs in on the election - Fortune Tech: Nearly 30 years after he co-founded Sun, and two years after the company sold to Oracle (ORCL), one of the tech industry's most outspoken and colorful executives is back. Only instead of selling servers and software to businesses, he's trying to get consumers, sports teams, and corporations -- and politicians -- to embrace a social media tool that's a little hard to define: It is part polling app, part interactive media tool (think Twitter), and part enterprise service.
The polling software at the heart of Wayin is super easy to use. It allows you to create basic questionnaires, on the web or using a mobile app, by selecting an image and asking a question. Pick a photo of the Fab Four, ask Who is your favorite Beatle?, and bingo, the answers from your followers will start trickling in immediately.
Dave Johnson in Social Software
03:12AM Jan 26, 2012
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Good information on a bad API. The comments are good too:
HttpURLConnection's Dark Secrets: If youre programming in the Java language and want to talk to a Web server, there are several libraries you can choose from. HttpURLConnection is one popular choice, and for Android programming, the engineering team has now officially suggested that you use it where possible.
Dave Johnson in Java
03:26AM Jan 23, 2012
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Great analysis, as usual, from Stephen O'Grady of Redmonk. Here's the part about Dynamo that concerns me, the lock-in:
Amazon DynamoDB: First Look: Like the initial wave of PaaS platforms, however, DynamoDB is available only through a single provider. Unlike Amazons RDS, which is essentially compatible with MySQL, DynamoDB users will be unable to migrate off of the service seamlessly. The featureset can be replicated using externally available code via those projects that were originally inspired by DynamoDB, for example but you cannot at this time download, install and run DynamoDB locally.
Dave Johnson in Web Development
02:57AM Jan 20, 2012
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Worth a read:
Werner Vogels: Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast performance at any scale. Todays web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. With Amazon DynamoDB, developers scaling cloud-based applications can start small with just the capacity they need and then increase the request capacity of a given table as their app grows in popularity. Their tables can also grow without limits as their users store increasing amounts of data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale.
Dave Johnson in Web Development
02:51AM Jan 19, 2012
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The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com: Solitude has long been associated with creativity and transcendence. Without great solitude, no serious work is possible, Picasso said. A central narrative of many religions is the seeker Moses, Jesus, Buddha who goes off by himself and brings profound insights back to the community.
Dave Johnson in General 02:37AM Jan 16, 2012
I feel pretty strongly about this. I won't vote for a politician who backs SOPA or PIPA:
Obama Administration Comes Out Against SOPA, PIPA | TPM Idea Lab:Even more promising for critics of the bills, the Administration came down firmly against one of the most vehemently opposed portions of the bills the part that would give the government the power to force Internet Service Providers to stop loading overseas webpages accused of piracy. Under the original versions of SOPA and PIPA, ISPs would be required to change their Doman Name System settings to block sites accused of piracy, a measure that critics said would essentially break the Internet and make it more insecure.
Dave Johnson in General
09:59AM Jan 14, 2012
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New York City gets a Software Engineering High School - Joel on Software:This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the citys first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream of Mike Zamansky, the highly-regarded CS teacher at New Yorks elite Stuyvesant public high school. It was jump started when Fred Wilson, a VC at Union Square Ventures, promised to get the tech community to help with knowledge, advice, and money.
Dave Johnson in General
10:44AM Jan 13, 2012
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Cory Doctorow's keynote to the Chaos Computer Congress. Worth a read:
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing - Boing Boing
Dave Johnson in Open Source
11:58AM Jan 11, 2012
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Survey says 80% of New Relic's Java customers choose open source app servers over expensive bloat-ware.
Server wars: Open-source Java vs Weblogic and WebSphere | Software, Interrupted - CNET News: Overall, it's not surprising that users who are deploying their applications to the cloud are more likely to use open source, if for no other reason than that licensing is far simpler. Additionally, there are Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) available for most open source stacks, making it very easy to choose open source over a traditionally licensed application server.
Dave Johnson in Open Source
05:33AM Jan 10, 2012
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jVi Home Page: NetBeans 7.1 Bug 205835 can lose edits; a variety of jVi commands run into this. jVi-1.4.5 disables itself if it detects module versions with the bug, AFAICT. The bug is scheduled to be fixed in NB-7.1.1; sometime around January/February.
Seriously, how can you ship without vi?
Dave Johnson in Java
02:20AM Jan 10, 2012
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I hate the "will die" title but Antonio Rodriguz insightfully sums up the state of Android and it does not sound strong, to say the least. All the more reason to take a hybrid approach, e.g. project formerly known as PhoneGap.
Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you: I used to think that, as with Linux and web services in the early part of last decade, Android was going to be the mortar for the Internet of post PC devices an essential ingredient to put stuff together. And as bonus, unlike Linux which puttered away quietly in the background doing the heavy lifting for services like Amazon and Google, Android was largely user-facing and would also therefore benefit from massive platform scale (and the resulting de-facto standard it would create) the way no piece of software since Microsoft Windows had.
Dave Johnson in Open Source
06:07PM Jan 09, 2012
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The four device classes - QuirksBlog:
Dave Johnson in Links 07:43AM Jan 09, 2012
Brent Simmons says the blog comments vs. no blog comments debate is like vi vs. emacs. Despite his great explanation, only a geek would get thiat argument. Me, I like vi and blog comments... but may be that's because I don't get many.
inessential.com: Comments on blogs: I see my blog that way: its one place on the web, the place where I write. Its one leaf on a tree. It doesnt have to contain everything. These days there are so many ways and places to comment so many other tools that including comments here would be Emacs-like.
Dave Johnson in Blogging 05:21PM Jan 08, 2012
And yes that's OCLC, not OSLC.
Rogue Gadgets: Ian Boston: OCLC recently launched WorldShare, an OpenSocial based platform that uses Apache Shindig to render Gadgets and provide access for those gadgets to a wealth of additional information feeds. It does not provide the container in which to mount the Gadgets but it provides a trusted and respected source of rendered Gadgets. This turns the OpenSocial model on its head. A not for profit organisation delivering access to vast stores of information via OpenSocial and the Gadget feeds. Suddenly the gadget rendered feed is the only thing that matters. The container could be provided by OCLC, but equally by members. OCLC has wisely decided to certify any gadget that it is prepared to serve.
Dave Johnson in Links 04:47PM Jan 04, 2012
Tumblr management shows off some pretty poor judgement here:
Jeremy Cutler: "Whether or not I have grounds to justly disagree with them on this, the fact remains that under the Tumblr Terms of Service, they are well within their rights to delete my Tumblr blogs as a punitive action should I continue to distribute the extension. They have informed me that this is the course of action they will take should I not acquiesce to their demands."
Dave Johnson in Social Software 03:40AM Jan 03, 2012
Rob Beschizza: "Don't let private companies represent themselves as public spaces. 'Cause they ain't."
Dave Johnson in Social Software 03:38AM Jan 03, 2012
Here's what I tweeted about in 2011:
Get yours here.
Dave Johnson in Social Software
10:41AM Jan 02, 2012
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