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Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development


DRRTY JAVA.

Reuters: Sun will at its JavaOne conference this week unveil plans for an advertising campaign and new Web sites, featuring singer Christina Aguilera toting a Java-enabled cell phone that plays games, Sun executives said.
Yep, it's for real.
Tags: Java

java.net

Lookie there, java.net has gone live.

Tags: Java

Rules for open source and for handling bugs.

I enjoyed Shlomi Fish's Rules of Open Source Development and Charles Miller's Handling Bug Reports today. I saw a couple of parallels:

Charles Miller: give users empowerment equal to their station.
Rules of Open Source Development: The user is always right unless proven otherwise by the developer.
Customer success is important, but hey, let's get real.

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One year ago yesterday: Roller goes live!

Ok, I've been a bit preoccupied recently and I missed the anniversary by one day, but what the heck. I've been running my blog on Roller for one year an a day. Yay!

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