tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55767042011-04-21T18:36:13.489-07:00Byronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13598457069413257651noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5576704.post-1097376064514705762004-10-09T19:40:00.000-07:002004-10-09T19:41:04.516-07:00

Sourcelabs is my new company, the one I've been hinting at over the past few months, and my blog is now over there.

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I'm looking for a few good people to join me in a new venture. I won't say much here, but send me an email if you're interested. The venture will be focused in a very specific area that is tied to the overall mission of making computing cheap, easy, and ubiquitous. We're looking for people who are passionate about making software work (building it, testing it, supporting it) and know a thing or 3

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I have been playing around with editme.com. It's still has a way to go, but it makes basic wiki-style collaboraiton relatively easy and friendly - and it's a hosted service. My feature list: easier way to manage users out of the box templates - calendar would be very useful! revision history easy way to create tables of information, with views of that info There are more companies to come in

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Active Endpoints is first to open source a BPEL implementation. The word is that their tools are excellent. I haven't tried them. Has anyone? http://www.activeendpoints.com/newspr/pr_activebpel.html

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XML Beans is now a full-fledged Apache project, one of what is becoming a pretty comprehensive set of XML projects at the ASF. David Bau led the creation of XML beans, which you can read about here. Basically, they make it relatively easy and painless to deal with XML documents in Java. An intersection with SDO at some point seems likely. This seems to be a good example of a vendor (BEA) working

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Taking some time off is a good way to remind oneself of why work matters. In addition to paying the bills I mean . What I concluded was that 200 years from now, when historians summarize "our" generation, one of the most important points (the end of totalitarianism possibly being the only other contendor) will be "communications and computing became free, easy, and ubiquitous." And thinking of

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Lots of smart people are looking at these four problems right now. Managing personal information, rights, and preferences. In the Net world, we want to live across different machines - in our own home, when we're traveling, etc. Yahoo has not done much here, and Google's first forays seem rather tentative. Passport - enough said. Amazon Web Services are cool, but they haven't taken it further.

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Four months of reflection and inspection have led me to one overwhelming conclusion - the model for how server software is sold today will soon (2006-2008) die. Some of my developer friends will congratulate on catching up with Linus Torvalds and RedHat many years too late. But most folks I talk to seem to think I'm crazy. Maybe I am. But everything I've seen in this market over the past 18

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I left BEA a few weeks ago. I'm going to take a few months off and then find something that strikes me. It's been hard saying goodbye to so many great friends and people and I hope I will be able to stay in touch with them, which is one reason I'm going to try to update my blog a little more often than I have been . To that end, orkut also looks like it has a lot of potential. More soon.

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I went to the O'Reilly Foo Camp this weekend. It was a semi-structured conference where people show up and discuss what they want to discuss, with a wiki and bullitten board to facilitate. An interesting topic was "social software" (nearly all written in python it seems) - Friendster and MeetUp as well as the standards like eBay, Wikis, and Amazon. Much of the discussion was around community

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The Serverside has a lively thread going on about the Workshop extensibility announcement, here is a link to it, with a response from me. Mobileaware is an example of a company that has done wonders with Workshop extensibility. They have a very slick IDE integration - not just controls - and have a nice story for providing a platform to mobile operators with WebLogic Portal.

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Rod makes it easy.

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For those of you who think Workshop is fun, building a Workshop extension can be even more fun. Hot off the presses is the Workshop extensibility portal. We think Workshop is cool, but there are lots of things it doesn't do, or doesn't do well, and that's where people are building their own extensions. And it's completely SWT free!

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I spent a lot of my time thinking about developers and how to make java development easier. But I'm spending more and more time thinking about end users and what applications they need. It seems the Internet has woefully underserved them. Sure the Internet is cool. But it's still way too hard for a user to build or customize an Internet application, especially when compared to a 13 year old

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Eddie has a cool article on dev2dev about using the repeater tag. I'll try including it in the next version of my Google service.

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Carl is writing about this on his blog. I'll link to it just to give him incentive to keep it going .

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I'm not known for writing code. I shouldn't be, and I shouldn't. But I built a simple page flow for searching Google via their web service. Here's how you can do it in Workshop. 1) Follow Google's instructions to get a copy of their SDK (which includes their WSDL, which is all you'll need), and a key for using their service. 2) Import the WSDL into a Workshop web project in a folder called "

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Here's today's elbow grease: Rod and I had dinner and inevitably (as often happens with Rod) the conversation turned to open source and media. It turns out there's a SourceForge project called "Freevo" that like Tivo runs on Linux but unlike Tivo is open source. Sounds cool. Anyone tried it? Kyle and I spent part of the afternoon with Ispheres. They are all about event-based computing,

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(More on Marvin Gaye) I never, ever imagined I'd start a blog and then go a month without updating it. But lots of other people did :-). Anyway, my labor day resolution is to put some elbow grease into the blog. And for those of you who wonder when I'll add support for comments, ask Rod, he was going to let me host on his site once it was... finished. Update on the collaboration front: false

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(I discovered the concept of titles ) Gary Burd and Joel on Software both mentioned Mozilla's Firebird project and so I installed it an tried it out. For those who are curious, it's a small, fast browser that easily blocks pop-ups and provides a nice decompisition of the page elements. It runs on Linux and Windows. I'm already Tripod-immune thanks to my ZoneAlarm "firewall"... I don't know

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Are e-mail, IM, and reading the web really the most interesting things we can do while connected to virtually all the computers (and a large proportion of the people) in the world? Isn't it mildly ridiculous that although NCSA began work on Mosaic more than ten years ago, no one has seriously tackled the problem of connecting groups of people and applications together? Is e-mail destined for

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Today we shipped. Try it. It's free and good for you.

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Today I found an interesting new company that Bill Gurley at Benchmark Capital pointed me to... as Bill describes it, some companies try to make multiple apps run on a single server box, while Qlusters makes it easy to run a single instance across multiple servers. It's an interesting one-liner (Bill is good at that) and it seems like a good play on server consolidation and cost reduction in the

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This is my first post to my first blog. MySQL is very much on my mind these days. The company hit the Wall Street Journal this week. I've never used MySQL, and in fact I don't know anyone who has, but it seems like everyone I know is talking about it. Which might mean it's the next PointCast, or the next Netscape, or even the next.... you know. But what is most fascinating is that people don't

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