My Cup Of Java

Models of Open Source

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Controversy arose in several open source projects last week: ExtJS, SpringSource App Platform, and the SWF/FLV specs. Dion has a good summary and concludes with a reminder that most people could care less:

Finally,…

links for 2008-05-06

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Live from CommunityOne, Sun Introduces OpenSolaris - Free, Open, Easy-to-Integrate With World-Class Support and Unique Features to Fuel Innovation
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techno.blog(”Dion”): The River: A strange dream and the death of repeated friend requests

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I sometimes have strange tech-related dreams that stick with me. At first I ponder them, and then normally I curse myself for not dreaming about something more interesting.

A couple of nights ago I dreamed about…

techno.blog(”Dion”): Facebook changes I would like to see

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Everyone is buzzing on Facebook. I think their inside out opening is a stroke of genius. Richard McManamus has been talking Facebook all week, culminating with a piece on The impact of Facebook.

There are some things I…

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“Facebook needs to be more personal”

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Someone at MashupCamp was saying that Myspace wins over Facebook due to personalization. They meant theming. I wanted to show them this:

The new attack on the RDBMS

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Remember when the Object database was going to kill the Relational database?
OOP was the sexy programming model, and relational set theory seemed so quaint. Once you are using Objects, why wouldn’t you just want to…

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Gears Future APIs: OpenID and OAuth on Dion Almaer’s Blog

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When I was looking over Brad Neuberg’s Paper Airplane thought experiment I noticed the single sign on feature, where you login to the browser, and then you are done.
I realized that this is what I actually want.…

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