So Long Apple. The Party’s Over

JavaLobby.org has a pretty long thread on this recent blogosphere topic. Apple did not ship a Java 6 with Leopard. Everyone is up in arms. One of the questions I haven’t seen address anywhere is why it’s Apple’s job to spend time putting together a Java runtime [...]

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Actually, the ‘upgrade’ wasn’t an upgrade so much as a switch back.  I’ve been on ubuntu from dapper through fiesty, and switched over to mandriva 2008 yesterday.  I thought I’d backed everything up, but I’d forgot a few things.

Everything in /var

doesn’t sound like much, except that’s where my development php code was, as well as [...]

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I’ve been with Open Source Risk Management for about 2 months now, and it’s been quite interesting so far.  The issues and risks that the integration of open source code raises, and how different companies respond to these risks, is probably the crux of the interesting stuff, at least for me.  It doesn’t necessarily seem [...]

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I just stumbled on Zotero, a fantastic firefox plugin for archiving, annotating and searching stuff you find on the web.  There’s very little I can say about it that they don’t say better on their site.  I’ve only been using it today, but it’s simply amazing.  I’ve been looking for something like this for a [...]

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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 [...]

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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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