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May 05 2008
The New York Times quotes Laura Martin of Soleil Securities, as saying "This is management putting its employees and its job security ahead of current Yahoo shareholders' interest." The sense of horror here--that management could actually put the interests of employees ahead of the interests of investors--is interesting, to say… read moreApril 16 2008
It's been good to watch the use of OpenID spread. It's great to see that ma.gnolia.com has dropped "traditional login" in favor of OpenID. And I was encouraged to read about Yahoo's support of OpenID. Granted, it took me a while to get around to trying it. But when I… read moreApril 10 2008
It's been good to watch the use of OpenID spread. It's great to see that ma.gnolia.com has dropped "traditional login" in favor of OpenID. And I was encouraged to read about Yahoo's support of OpenID. Granted, it took me a while to get around to trying it. But when I… read moreDomain-Specific Social Applications
February 22 2008
I haven't heard a whole lot about domain-specific social applications; most of the ones we're familiar with attempt to serve a very broad audience. Most of the talk at SG FOO was about the world's Facebooks, Flickrs, and LInkedIns--who of... read moreDomain-Specific Social Applications
February 20 2008
I haven't heard a whole lot about domain-specific social applications; most of the ones we're familiar with attempt to serve a very broad audience. Most of the talk at SG FOO was about the world's Facebooks, Flickrs, and LInkedIns--who of... read moreAnother Invitation: Community Patent Review
January 25 2007
Andy Oram has been talking to some people who are interested in hiring Ruby developers for work on a patent reform project. Perhaps we should have a separate forum for job and project postings. read moreTranslations: Invitation to a Project
January 23 2007
I just received this message from Brian McConnell. Brian is an O’Reilly author and blogger, and generally a smart guy. I didn’t know he was working in Rails–I’ve always thought of him as a Pythonista. Anyway, if you’re interested in this project, let him know. Description follows… > I am writing… read moreTranslations: Invitation to a Project
January 23 2007
I just received this message from Brian McConnell. Brian is an O’Reilly author and blogger, and generally a smart guy. I didn’t know he was working in Rails–I’ve always thought of him as a Pythonista. Anyway, if you’re interested in this project, let him know. > I am writing to… read moreNovember 13 2006
It’s finally happened! Sun has released Java under an open source license. Not only that, they did it in the best possible way: using GPL version 2, not some bizarre concoction of their own. Congratulations to Jonathan Schwartz, James Gosling, and everyone else involved with this decision. What’s surprising, of course,… read moreOctober 01 2006
Steve Yegge has a provocative blog about Agile methodologies. It’s vintage Steve: fun to read, cutting, opinionated; and, in many ways, largely right, I think. A couple of quick reactions: The one component of “agile programming” that’s very much part of Google’s culture is unit testing, and that’s always seemed… read moreRidiculously Easy Distributed Computing
September 06 2006
I was going to write some more about DSLs, but I realized I had something more important to say. And nowhere near as verbose. Lucas Carlson (author of the Ruby Cookbook) has been doing some great stuff. Check out starfish. It’s a simple, easy-to-use, implementation of Google’s MapReduce for Ruby. It’s… read moreAugust 30 2006
About a month ago, there was a flurry of blogs and articles on what is, and what isn’t, a domain-specific language. I’m not sure who started it, but articles include Martin Fowler’s, Nutrun’s, and Jeremy Voorhis’. At the same time, I was having some interesting conversations about DSLs with Terence… read moreAugust 11 2006
We’ve just published Getting Started with Hibernate 3, by Jim Elliott. It’s the latest entry in our new series of Short Cuts: short PDFs that get you up and running quickly. Jim is a great author–he works fast, he’s easy to get along with, and he writes really well. Getting… read more
