{"id":1757,"date":"2008-10-16T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2008-10-16T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T11:00:01","slug":"links-for-october-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/10\/16\/links-for-october-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for October 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"deliciousLinks\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tech.puredanger.com\/2008\/10\/11\/jsr-277-turning-point\/\">JSR 277 turning point?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmctv.com\/\">Front Page &mdash; BMCtv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com\/\">Hot Chicks with Douchebags<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/almaer.com\/blog\/the-next-big-language-theory-practice-and-the-killer-app\">The next big language; Theory, practice, and the killer app on Dion Almaer&#039;s Blog<\/a><br \/>There&#039;s an explosion of shiny objects on the field. Otters beware.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2008\/10\/15\/farewell-firewire\/\">Farewell FireWire?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desktoplinux.com\/news\/NS3225467354.html\">Linux an equal Flash player<\/a><br \/>&quot;Welcome to the future. Linux is now a first-class desktop operating system citizen. Adobe today released version 10 of its Adobe Flash Player, available now in a variety of convenient packaging formats for Linux, as well as other popular desktop operating systems.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13505_3-10067290-16.html\">Ah, the irony! SAP freezes internal IT purchases | The Open Road &#8211; The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay &#8211; CNET News<\/a><br \/>&quot;CIO.com&#039;s Thomas Wailgum wonders if SAP expects its customers to do the same, even as it raises maintenance pricing and it and other vendors talk up IT as a way to innovate through a downturn. He&#039;s got a point.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/fact-checker\/?hpid=topnews\">Fact Checker &#8211; Final Presidential Debate Fact Check<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/theplanetarium\/entry\/trouble_with_java_se_applications\">Trouble with Java SE applications : The Planetarium<\/a><br \/>Danny lists several tools for debugging, profiling, etc. Java.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ivankamenken.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/16\/there-will-be-no-itil-v4-says-sharon-taylor\/\">There will be no ITIL V4, says Sharon Taylor &laquo; Ivanka Menken<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/channel8.msdn.com\/Posts\/MSwebinstallers\/\">Microsoft Web Platform Installers&hellip; FREE!!! | Posts | Channel 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bytesized.labnotes.org\/post\/54756830\/very-simple-rule-to-live-by\">Very simple rule to live by.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2008\/10\/15\/a-big-bag-of-blu-ray-hurt-for-apple\/\">A big bag of Blu-Ray hurt for Apple &#8211; The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)<\/a><br \/>Point being: the fact that Apple, the Lexus of laptops didn&#039;t stick a Bluray in their new line means bad things for Bluray in the short term.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jessewarden.com\/2008\/10\/the-usa-economy-and-flex.html\">Flex and Flash Developer &#8211; Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; The USA Economy and Flex<\/a><br \/>&quot;What this means is, I&rsquo;m still seeing a lot of teams needing Flex developers who have backgrounds in Flash and\/or a more design centric background.  So, even if things tank, if you have this background you&rsquo;re still extremely valuable.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/development\/56179\/topcoder-eyeing-smb-market\">TopCoder eyeing SMB market | ITworld<\/a><br \/>&quot;The more you know what you want, the cheaper it is,&quot; Cot&eacute; added. &quot;You can imagine if you made a house without a blueprint. You&#039;d probably start over a few times.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/aboutadobe\/pressroom\/pressreleases\/pdfs\/200810\/101508AdobeCS4avail.pdf\">[PDF] Adobe Creative Suite 4 [CS4] Now Shipping<\/a><br \/>I should be getting a review copy in the mail soon. I&#039;ll have to compare and contrast, esp. Soundbooth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innotechconference.com\/austin\/Event\/Austin_Events\/Commercial_Advantages_of_Ruby_and_Rails.php\">The Next Wave: Strategies for High Developer Productivity with Ruby on Rails and the Ruby Eco-System<\/a><br \/>Meeting Room 11, 4th Floor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/biztech\/2008\/10\/14\/saps-big-freeze\/\">Business Technology : SAP&#039;s Big Freeze<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.opennms.org\/?p=361\">Adventures in Open Source &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; OpenNMS vs. Nethinks MONET 2.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gravitant.com\/\">Gravitant &#8211; Home<\/a><br \/>&quot;Gravitant&trade; offers next-generation performance management products and services to successfully enable and manage outsourced and on-demand enterprise initiatives. We believe business model innovation through these initiatives can provide medium and large enterprises with breakthrough performance improvements.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/hardware\/?p=2781\">Firefox 3.1 raises the browser bar &hellip; again | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2008\/10\/15\/t-mobiles-g1-could-hit-on-friday-after-all-reactions-already-mixed\/\">T-Mobile&rsquo;s G1 could hit on Friday after all, reactions already mixed &raquo; VentureBeat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/development\/56154\/former-google-yahoo-employees-behind-hadoop-startup\">Former Google, Yahoo employees behind Hadoop startup | ITworld<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boycottnovell.com\/2008\/10\/15\/irc-log-14102008\/\">Boycott Novell &raquo; IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: October 14th, 2008<\/a><br \/>&quot;The open source feeds are filled with the poison called Silverlight.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JSR 277 turning point? 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