--- title: links for 2007-03-19 date: 2007-03-19T23:30:17Z modified: 2007-03-19T23:30:17Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/links-for-2007-03-19/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 964 categories: - Uncategorized timestamp: 2007-03-19T23:30:17Z tags: - Uncategorized --- - [MySQL – is this database fit for the Enterprise? | Reg Developer](http://www.regdeveloper.com/2007/03/18/mysql_enterprise_fit/) MySQL addresses UK developers from the roots up – starting with the Reg. (tags: [MySQL](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/MySQL) [Register](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Register)) - [Nina Squire – Pastel portraits of pets, animals, dogs and horses -Terriers](http://www.thepastelartist.co.uk/kirbysquire.htm) wow. these silk weavings/dies are quite beautiful if muted . an intriguing composition method. (tags: [via:folknology](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/via:folknology) [art](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/art) [silk](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/silk)) - [A VC: New Music Monday](http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/03/new_music_monda.html) The British Are Coming. again. If you don’t know Amy Winehouse, but you like soul (I mean the real thing not todays anodyne bling/trill trill trill version) then give her a listen. first track from the new Arctic Mondays yesterday- *hard* drumming (tags: [music](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/music) [MP3](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/MP3)) - [Internet Outsider: Attention Web 2.0 Start-Ups: Party May Be Ending](http://www.internetoutsider.com/2007/03/attention_web_2.html) “For what it’s worth, I am calling for a real recession, in which the economy shrinks and the stock market tanks, regardless of what the Fed does. “ (tags: [via:annez](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/via:annez)) - [A VC: Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes](http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/03/chchchchchanges.html) Same deal when I was a kid. Always moving. moving. moving. “I learned how to make friends quickly. And I learned how to forget friends just as quickly. The former has been a huge asset. The latter has been a curse I have not yet learned how to kick.” (tags: [fredwilson](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/fredwilson) [via:fredwilson](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/via:fredwilson) [nurture](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/nurture)) - [JBoss Rules](http://markproctor.blogspot.com/) JBoss Rules people tell me I need to track their blog, rather than JBoss blogs, for something less dry. This isn’t announcement-based, but heavily best-practice led. I wlll subscribe to get a view but I may bank out later – too focused for my needs? (tags: [JBoss](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/JBoss) [Drools](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Drools) [blog](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/blog)) - [ongoing · Wobble and Laswell: Radioaxiom](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/03/16/Wobble-Laswell) Tim is a Jah Wobble fan. Who new? (tags: [declarativeliving](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/declarativeliving) [dub](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/dub)) - [IBM – Changes in Cloudscape Availability and Support](http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=636&uid=swg21256502) IBM drops Cloudscape support, so much for on-ramps. “Question: Is this the end of IBM involvement with Apache Derby On the contrary, IBM continues to participate in the Apache Derby community and make contributions to the project.” (tags: [Apache](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Apache) [Derby](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Derby) [Cloudscape](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Cloudscape)) - [del.icio.us/help/tagdescriptions](http://del.icio.us/help/tagdescriptions) Now we can work with the metadata describing a tag. well done del.icio.us. Tags describing tags. sounds like tag gardening to me (tags: [tags](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/tags) [tag-gardening](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/tag-gardening)) - [PHPDeveloper.org: Chris Hartjes’ Blog: Zend\_Service\_Audioscrobbler moves to Zend Framework Core](http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7449) Audioscrobbler comes to Zend Core. Last.fm meets Zend. Interesting. I know Last.FM itself uses PHP pretty extensively, so… (tags: [Zend](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Zend) [PHP](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/PHP) [Audioscrobbler](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Audioscrobbler) [Las.fm](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Las.fm) [via:nigeljames](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/via:nigeljames)) - [On My Watch](http://benbloch.blogspot.com/2007/03/main-takeways-from-eclipse-con-santa.html) In which I get some props for a minimalist presentation. stephen should get the credit – i based this presentation to eclipsecon on one of his. “some slides had one word on them – but stayed with me.” Ben- if you want to talk eclipse as runtime lemme know (tags: [Eclipsecon](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Eclipsecon) [sogrady](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/sogrady) [presentation](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/presentation)) - [rodcorp: links for 2007-03-17](http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2007/03/links_for_20070_10.html) Rod likes our business model. Cool thanks Rod. (tags: [RedMonkbusinessmodel](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/RedMonkbusinessmodel)) - [Schneier on Security: Privacy Law and Confidentiality](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/03/privacy_law_and.html) a different approach to privacy law. do we need to revisit the underpinnings of privacy law- taking confidentiality into greater account (tags: [privacy](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/privacy) [identity](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/identity) [to:theotherthomasotter](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/to:theotherthomasotter)) - [Enter The JBoss Matrix](http://blogs.jboss.com/blog/sconnolly/?permalink=Open_Source_Community_and_Barack_Obama.txt) That is more like it. Open source and race: an argument for non-binary. JBoss talking to a far wider context. “Definitions of open source community that focus on one way to do things or one way to interact and communicate are missing the bigger picture” (tags: [JBoss](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/JBoss) [blogs](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/blogs) [Obama](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Obama)) - [Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership: Shared Perspectives on Industry Analysts…](http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2007/03/shared-perspectives-on-industry.html) Part-time analysts is an interesting idea, from a user-generated business model perspective. The balance between occasional input and quality control is a tough one to finesse. the “representing” my last/current/future employer issue. client consistency? (tags: [analystbiz](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/analystbiz) [influence2.0](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/influence2.0)) - [ongoing · Ian Murdock](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/03/18/Ian-Murdock) Sun hires the Ian of Debian. Towards Solaris for Humans. Now i really need to write piece that up. What say you now SOG? Suffice to say this really is big news proving Sun let Ian do his thing. (tags: [debian](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/debian) [Sun](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Sun) [Solaris](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Solaris)) - [It wont happen — jerryleecooper’s comment on “Why Linux will not displace Windows” | TalkBack on ZDNet](http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12355-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31199&messageID=579073&start=48) But Microsoft recently announced support for XP til 2014, didnt it? (tags: [Vista](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Vista) [XP](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/XP)) - [Ian Murdock’s Weblog » Joining Sun](http://ianmurdock.com/2007/03/19/joining-sun/) “’ll be advocating that Solaris needs to close the usability gap with Linux to be competitive; I also believe deeply in the importance of backward compatibility; I’m pretty strongly of the opinion that Linux needs to play a clearer role.” (tags: [Debian](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Debian) [Sun](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Sun)) - [One for James, Ruby in Austin « Adventures in systems land](http://cathcam.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/one-for-james-ruby-in-austin/) IBM Austin’s Library is all about the Ruby, baby. Isn’t everyones? (tags: [IBM](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/IBM) [Ruby](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Ruby)) - [The best anti-war protest slogan | Clipmarks](http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/73971B47-2AAD-4076-9387-4501C583A503/) contains swear words. could appear on a future james mcgovern post. (tags: [f\*\*\*](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/f***) [war](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/war) [peace](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/peace) [politics](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/politics)) - [Targeting development for future hardware « Adventures in systems land](http://cathcam.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/targeting-development-for-future-hardware/) “Operationally we’ve seen way too many organisations follow the Amazon/Google/ebay server model without really examining why they started down this route, how they got there, the costs involved and why they persist with such an architecture.” (tags: [Scale](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Scale) [transactions](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/transactions) [Systems](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Systems) [Servers](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Servers) [Web](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Web)) - [Matusow’s Blog : FoxPro Going to CodePlex](http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/archive/2007/03/19/foxpro-going-to-codeplex.aspx) Microsoft shares source code older development environment… welcome to collaborative source code for escrow, Microsoft. (tags: [Foxpro](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Foxpro) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Microsoft)) - [Database Transactions Considered Harmful?](http://www.globelogger.com/item.php?id=912) You should have seen the reaction i got at QCON when i said two-phase commit could be useful in some contexts. It was like I stepped in something, and then wiped it all over my clothes. legacyboy indeed. eBay is sloppygood wth data, it can be… (tags: [database](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/database) [scale](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/scale) [eBay](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/eBay) [Google](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Google) [Scale2.0](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Scale2.0)) - [Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » It’s IPO’clock, European Time](http://sramanamitra.com/blog/710) news- i had not seen this IPO. A German social software company successfully listed (tags: [Germany](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Germany) [socialsoftware](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/socialsoftware) [2.0](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/2.0)) - [Art Rhyno’s science project « Jon Udell](http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/03/16/art-rhynos-science-project/) Jon is getting excited about on the fly transitions between say ODF and HTML. (tags: [ODF](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/ODF) [HTML](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/HTML)) - [Dabble DB » Blog Archive » Spread the Dabble DB word](http://dabbledb.com/blog/?p=83) Should RedMonk have an affiliate program for simple subscription service? (tags: [redmonkbusiness](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/redmonkbusiness) [redmonkbusinessmodel](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/redmonkbusinessmodel))