Blogging RollerDave Johnson on blogging, open source and JavaEvans Data Corp. Web 2.0 survey- February 28, 2008 Evans Data Corp. is doing a survey on Web 2.0 development and they've included some interesting questions on social networking: How is your organization using Social Networking What is keeping your organization from using Social Networking now Why are you planning to use Social Networking technology Which of these Social Networking APIs are you most interested in developing with What are your plans for OpenSocial What are your plans for developing Facebook applicationshttp://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/evans_social_network_survey Social Software for Glassfish screencast- February 21, 2008 I mentioned the Social Software for Glassfish (SSG) EA2 release before the winter break, but I never got around to posting any details. Since then some documentation has appeared, Manveen Kaur blogged it, The Aquarium too and now screen-cast master Arun Gupta has created an excellent Social Software for Glassfish screencast that walks you through the features in this very early access release. Now I don't have to say nearly as much.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/social_software_glassfish_screencast Blackbox tour coming to the Triangle- February 21, 2008 In case you're not following the Blackbox blog, the Sun Modular Data Center is coming to the Triangle on March 12, 2008. The event will be hosted at the SAS Institute campus in Cary, NC. Here's the blurb: Join us and enjoy presentations and tours throughout the day of Sun's Modular Datacenter, the world's first datacenter in a box - a 6.1 meter (20 foot) shipping container. Also known as Project Blackbox, this is a virtualized datacenter optimized for extreme energy, space, and performance...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/blackbox_in_the_triangle Latest Links: JSF vs. REST- February 18, 2008 I've been very happy with the choice of Struts 2 for Roller, but I still follow JSF because it's the Java standard. A couple of articles by Ryan Lubke about what's coming in JSF 2.0 got me thinking about JSF again. Ryan Lubke's Blog: JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series, pt. 2.1: Resources"Previous versions of JSF had no facility for serving resources" Ryan Lubke's Blog: JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview, pt. 1: ProjectStage"the JSF 2.0 EG has given a nod to Ruby on Rails' RAILS_ENV...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/latest_links22 Godless hackers- February 18, 2008 Michael Kimsal did an informal survey of computer language use and religion on his blog a couple of weeks ago. The results don't seem very surprising to me. Like Alan Turing, Linus Torvolds and Richard Stallman, most developers are either atheists or agnostics. Here's Michael's pie chart for Java:http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/godless_hackers Latest Links: Feb. 16, 2008- February 16, 2008 More on MySpaces Open Development Platform - GigaOM"made up of three APIs primarily Open Social and extensions weve added" ZDNet.com: Progress report on the OpenSocial Web Summary of latest OpenSocial news and hackathons from Dan Farber Facebook to Punish Stupid Applications, Reward Good Ones - ReadWriteWeb"Metered messaging based on user engagement could save the Facebook Platform from a growing sense of app fatigue" Roumen's Weblog: Android plug-in for NetBeans"the screenshots look...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/latest_links27 wwwin-blogs.cisco.com- February 13, 2008 Apparently, CISCO has a pretty active internal blog server and it's running Roller. I can tell from my referrer logs. If any CISCO folks are reading this, drop me a line. I'd love to know how Roller and internal blogging in general is working out for you.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/wwwin_blogs_cisco_com Thumbs up for Persepolis- February 11, 2008 Yesterday, I saw Persepolis. I thought it was great. The artwork was beautiful, the characters Marjane and her grandmother were wonderful and the story really took hold. I dragged the older boys (10 and 11) along and that was probably mistake, not because of the occasional bad language and a couple violent images -- but simply because of the subtitles. The whole thing is in French and they had a hard time following along, especially at the start. I wonder why the Galaxy didn't show the...http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/thumbs_up_for_persepolis Project Kenai: social networking place for developers- February 6, 2008 Kenai was announced yesterday at the Sun Analyst Summit (SAS 2008): It was mentioned in Software VP Rich Green's presentation. I think that's just about all I can say on the topic. And by the way, the audio and slides for all of the SAS 2008 presentations are online now. Ian Murdock's presentation is especially good, as Redmonk's James Governor tweeted yesterday "Ian Murdoch (the ian of debian) is doing a phenomenal job of explaining what Linux, and distributions are. A great education for.http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/project_kenai_social_networking_place AtomPub in OpenSocial 0.7- February 5, 2008 I missed this one in my social networking API link-fest yesterday: Google announced version 0.7 of the OpenSocial API, some of the data APIs are outlined in the spec and they're still using AtomPub protocol (just like GData). I had heard there was some push-back against AtomPub, but I really don't know what is going on because there is no transparency at all in the specification development process. So, who knows, but I really don't think they have time to invent an all new protocol. In fact,..http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/opensocial_0_7 |