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Open Source in a SaaS World
About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open source "mean" in a Sa
Testing Velocity Part 2 - Why do we test?
A couple weeks ago, I began a series on keeping your test suite fast and effective. I now am going
Aptana Jaxer: ser ver-side Ajax
Aptana released Jaxer: the first ever Ajax server... you got that right, ser ver-side Ajax ... the co
App Engine and Java
The world is now split into Python pro grammers, making funny 'Goo' noises over App Engine, and every
GoogleAppE ngine -Not Delivering On the Promise So Far
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Open Source in a SaaS World
About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?" came up in conversation. A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT industry's move to Software-as-a-Se
The Third Order of Order
I'm thoroughly enjoying David Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous (The Power of the New Digital Disorder). Weinberger has a canny knack for taking a subject matter I feel I'm already familiar with and yet illuminating and expressing facets of it
Classic Raymond Chen
Here's some classic Raymond Chen: "Apparently I've been promoted by mistake all these years".
Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE
I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson, discussing FREE. The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy; the Attention E
Designing Web APIs - Twitter Learnings
Although I made it to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I didn't make it to a session Matt McAlister blogged about by Twitter’s Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API provider. B
The Efficiency of (the) American English Language
As I've come to learn while living in the US, the American English language is more efficient than its British English cousin. The difference between the two languages is more than just fonetic phonetic simplification - the general rule seems to be a
So...what?
About four years ago I wrote a post (on my old blog) about some of the verbal tics and language use I encountered at Microsoft (memetic habits I inevitably picked up myself). My observations centered around the use of the word "so", example: "So, h
Bungee Connect news x3 to share with you this morning
Three big pieces of Bungee Connect news to share with you this morning: 1. Bungee Grid now running on Amazon EC2 and accessible to Bungee Developers Bungee-powered application hosting on Bungee Grid-EC2 using Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) i
So what is this Platform as a Service thing?
The "platform-as-a-service", or PaaS meme is getting more air play the last 24 hours as news of Google App Engine makes its way through the tech media and blogs. ReadWriteWeb has a good write up and Phil Wainewright's summation by declaring "Let the
See Results of Bungee Connect's Intern DevFest 2008
In late 2007, fifty Computer Science university students applied for 2008 internships at Bungee Labs. We flew nine of the most promising applicants from around the US to join Bungee Labs for our first “Intern DevFest”. Over a 24 hour period the stude
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Microsoft, IBM, SAP To Discontinue UDDI Web Services Registry Effort
Misiek wrote: While public UDDI registries are no longer supported by such vendors as Microsoft, IBM or SAP, there are several efforts in place to still provide search facilities for publicly available Web Services. One of them, namely seekda (http://seekda.com), while not ba...
Sun Backs Postgres House Right After MySQL Buy
Sun News Desk wrote: Sun turned around and put money in the high-end open source Postgres company Greenplum
Old Oracle Mafia to Run Salesforce Unit
SaaS News Desk wrote: Salesforce.com has hired Polly Sumner, one of the old Oracle mafia, as president, platform, alliances and services, responsible for the technology and marketing of the company's Force.com platform. Sumner was recently president of global services for Tel...
The Newfangled Holy Grail of SaaS Has Come to OpenOffice
Duell Grams wrote: It's great like tools are emerging nowadays! I guess next year there will be even more of them and those that we're already using will be even more efficient! As for me, I can't wait till the release of the next version of Wrike http://www.wrike.com/
SAP Backs SUSE
JP wrote: About time this was picked up. SAP has said this for MONTHS now.
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