So, I’ve now been at my new workplace (opensourceriskmanagement) for a week.  Well, not quite.  I was only *there* (in Durham) for 2.5 days last week.  Since last Wednesday evening, I’ve been in San Jose, CA, attending meetings with current and prospective clients, and doing code audits.  My Black Duck experience today was less than [...]

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for the social web to evolve to the next level.  Is that at all controversial?  I hope at least the title is, as I’d like to provoke a bit of thought in you, the reader, about the topic of DRM.
I’ve been mulling this and related topics for some time, but not quite in these words.  [...]

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This is one I wish I’d just recorded straight from the board.  This testing framework looks pretty awesome, and one that may have a big impact on how people do AJAX/web testing in the coming months.  While it’s been ‘out’ for awhile, this was basically a public launch here at OSCON.  I’m going to see [...]

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I had a quick interview with Prashant Deva from Placid Systems, talking about the upcoming Virtual Ant product.  Hopefully I will have this up on webdevradio.com in the next week.  It was about 15 minutes, with a couple fluff/testing minutes at the beginning  :)  Prashant was a pretty cool guy, and I wish we’d had [...]

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I gave my first public run through of my SOLR presentation last night to the tripug group last night. Whew! It was pretty darn rough. My first runs through had timed out at only 10-12 minutes. I was really worried about how I’d fill the time. What happened, however, was [...]

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UGC - User Generated Content - has been all the rage the last year or so.  Actually, it’s been the rage since probably 1996 or 97 or whenever GeoCities made it easier to have URLs with the word “TheTropics” in them with homages to pets rendered on animated rainbow GIF backgrounds.  However, big media and [...]

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Whew!  The last several months have brought a flurry of web tech activity, the likes of which I haven’t seen in years.
Apollo/Silverlight/JavaFX all are aiming at reinventing in-browser development.
Yahoo Pipes, Ning, Coghead and some other platforms are giving us new ways to think about web-based development.
The YUI/Dojo/Scriptaculous/Atlas/jQuery/GWT AJAX toolkits - what can I say?  They [...]

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This is a general question, but possibly aimed at the PHP crowd more because it’s often easier to cut corners when doing development than in other languages.
“Cutting corners” can mean almost anything from skipping unit tests to skipping documentation to lax variable names to almost anything that you know isn’t optimal but you skip for [...]

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I just found this tool today - http://ganttproject.biz/ - which seems to be quite a usable gantt chart tool. Not ‘web based’ but instead a java-based desktop tool. I was in need of a gantt tool this morning (or thought I was!) and found this while searching around. It’s certainly one of [...]

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