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The latest word from Sun on open sourcing Java: some code will be released later this year, more in 2007, and they’ll use some OSI-approved license.
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MotherJones piece about IBM Linux graffiti in 2001.
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More distraction free/clean up your clutter apps for OS X.
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More discusion of JavaScript and AppleScript, this one in favor of AppleScript.
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PR’s about IBM’s announcements at LinuxWorld.
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“M Institute is a new organisation, with the objective of being the trusted information source and support infrastructure for mid-size businesses.”
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“A lot of people just don’t ‘get’ MySpace. Why is it so popular? A product manager tackles this question by asking, ‘What problem does it solve?'”
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As one of the commenters asks/says: “Why does it take so long to get a big-corporate IT person to do anything useful? Because big-corporate IT people have horrible incentives.”
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“You can’t simply show up with your laptop and hack together some database-backed web application that does 90% of what our corporate systems do in front of our CEO. She doesn’t understand all of the complexity behind our process and we don’t have time to
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“I especially enjoyed the many examples of how controls, business models, and information technology come together.”
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Looks worth looking into if you’re into PowerShell.
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Interesting clarifications and related typing-out-loud on *-2.0 stuff, esp. re: MSM.
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“Never pick a name that you have to spell every time you speak it, and/or have to explain how to pronounce every time you write it.”
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Tom Marble already laid out some tags for open sourcing Java. Great!
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“In a mini-talk from the java.net Community Corner at JavaOne 2006, Fernando Lozano shows how F/OSS projects have substantially duplicated all of the functionality of the JDK, even in the absence of an F/OSS Java implementation from Sun.”
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I’m always forgetting LGPL, which is a dandy licnese in my opinion. The rest of the post is good stuff as well 😉
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Mustang and Dolphin renamed to JDK 6 and JDK 7…that is, what everyone already calls them 😉
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Nice overview of open sourcing considerations and MSFT diff.
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“The bottom line is traditional solutions just aren’t making the process of buying easier for employees – instead it’s just one more burdensome chore.” Also, another Rails app.
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Looks like a nice way to dig around in the Java heap for memory leaks.
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Like I been tellin’ people: seems like it.
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“IDM is the proactive management of remote devices in real time over the Internet.”
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Hmm…monitor “devices” remotely. Looks interesting: “Questra SmartMonitor™ helps solve these problems by monitoring, generating alerts, and executing diagnostics on devices deployed at customer sites via a secure Internet connection.”
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On starting up tech consulting, with a good list of services.
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From $5-25/month. Worth checking out?
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The mega-round-up of DTrace in Leopard posts.
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Toigo never disappoints with the zinger: “[SOA] which I see as a desperate effort to make IT somehow relevant and meaningful to the Front Office.” The main topic is good too.
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“The Collax Business Server is a Linux-based OS that combines security, networking, and communications software. It is available with a free software license for up to five noncommercial users; prices for a 10-user, one-year subscription to the package st
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Tooling and management around SOA with Tivoli.
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Ingres as a database appliance.
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“Now, as we near the fiftieth anniversary of the hard drive, Hitachi is promising the release of the first terabyte hard drive—a 1,000 GB model—by the end of this year.”
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Survey about Agile use.
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Hrm. Something is wrong with these pictures.
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“Fighting the facilities battle is still a losing battle many places.”
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Hmm, I wonder if I still have my Blogger.com hoodie. I’d have been dumb to throw it out, but who knows.
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Negative reaction to long-tail think.
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“The decline, which pushed the index down seven points to 32, was blamed on growing unease among builders about record levels of unsold new and existing homes and increased cancellations of contracts for new homes. It was the seventh consecutive drop.”
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