Bill de hOra6862 9C3A FB23 47C7 BFE0 E1BB 53B9 7EED 599F 30C2Time to market- June 25, 2008 Jim Meyer and Ikai Lan:"One of the best things about working for LinkedIn is the constant exposure to new technologies and challenges. While the majority of the LinkedIn infrastructure runs on Java, it’s no secret that we don’t shy away from other interesting languages and frameworks – we’re always looking for ways to make better software faster. This is the spirit that launched the LED group with the charter to see how quickly it could prototype new ideas and features...http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/06/25/time-to-market/ Conservation of attractive profits- June 24, 2008 Arstechnica: "Nokia announced plans today to transform the Symbian mobile phone operating system into an open source platform. Nokia, which already owns roughly half of all shares of Symbian, is in the process of obtaining the other half from various holders for €264 million. The company has partnered with several other major handset makers to launch the new nonprofit Symbian Foundation, which will facilitate the liberation of the platform." Clayton M Christensen - "Companies make...http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/06/24/conservation-of-attractive-profits/ Plugin pros and cons- June 24, 2008 Stephen O'Grady has a nice post about the Gnome Do plugin model. So I thought I'd write down some thoughts on the pros and cons of plugin software architectures. When I say plugins here, I'm overloaded the word as a general concept to include things like Zope products, OSGi bundles, EclipseJiraIDEA plugins, XPIs, Apache modules, and even javascript in browser (yeah, that's a stretch - it's more a comment on how the modern browser fails as a platform for code on demand). So apologies in advance..http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/06/24/plugin-pros-and-cons/ Controlled semantic vocabularies tool- June 24, 2008 Peter Krantz: "Hence, there is a need for a simple vocabulary editor that allows domain experts to create a vocabulary without knowing the innards of semantic web technologies. I had a discussion with an IT-strategist from a large government authority today and we agreed that a tool like this would greatly benefit the use of controlled vocabularies in the public sector." (A patched) PloneOntology is used to back vocabularies on this site. Requires Plone, not MySQL. Uses a form to fill out...http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/06/24/controlled-semantic-vocabularies-tool/ Salesforce.com and Google integration: AtomPub- June 24, 2008 Salesforce integrate with Google Data via GDataAtom Protocol: "The metadata APIs from Google Apps means you can read the APIs directly from Google and Salesforce servers into your own developer tools, most notably Eclipse. During his presentation at the developer conference, Benioff showed a demo in which all of the Google definitions, such as its calendar, could be read into the Eclipse IDE and then used to build Force.com apps. The Google data APIs are built on top of the Atom publishing...http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/06/24/salesforcecom-and-google-integration-atompub/ |