Patrick Chanezon: Open Source

Link: Best of Show. [Sam Ruby]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:36:50 GMT

Best of Show. [Sam Ruby]

About Alan Kay, Social Software and Chandler.

Link: Are Dynamic Languages Going to Replace Static Languages? [Ted Leung]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:37:51 GMT

Are Dynamic Languages Going to Replace Static Languages? [Ted Leung]

Link: Jabber or JXTA. [Welcome to the real world]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:31:58 GMT

Jabber or JXTA. [Welcome to the real world]

Don't know why Jabber has more adoption in the open source world than JXTA. Maybe because of the initial application: both are great infrastructures, but Jabber shipped with a useful IM client and server, while JXTA just shipped a useless sample application that is a shell.

Link: Open Source and Open Standards.[O'Reilly Network MacDevCenter.com]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:29:19 GMT

Open Source and Open Standards.[O'Reilly Network MacDevCenter.com]

Link: Sun evangelist yawns about new Windows server. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:25:28 GMT

Sun evangelist yawns about new Windows server. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Link: Opinion: Sun / JBoss Cold War Heats Up. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:24:22 GMT

Opinion: Sun / JBoss Cold War Heats Up. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Link: AOP in Python

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:29:56 GMT

David Mertz wrote ONLamp.com: A Primer on Python Metaclass Programming Metaclass Programming allows you to do AOP in Python.

This article seems to be a rehash of his february DeveloperWorks article Metaclass programming in Python

There's also a Python AOP module for Zope, called Transwarp that exploits these techniques.

Link: Notes from the Chandler Demo

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:17:20 GMT

Notes from the Chandler Demo is an excellent introduction to Chandler. I tried their release 0.1 and while rough it is very promising. The Notes explain why the platform they build is promising. Based on wxWindows, Python, RDF and jabber, the architecture looks great and very flexible.

I'm just disappointed that they did not chose to implement this on top of Mozilla, which I think had already all the required platform features. I guess that performance, the choice to have native widgets, and the decision to use Python is what triggered their choice.

It's a great opportunity for me to give a try to my new abilities in Python, which I begun to learn 2 months ago and find a very exciting language.

They use Twiki for their wiki site: a very tasteful choice shall I say :-)

Link: Brian Behlendorf on the air. [Sam Ruby]

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:53:25 GMT

Brian Behlendorf on the air. [Sam Ruby]

Link: The global advantage. [InfoWorld.com] [Jon's Radio]

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:43:13 GMT

The global advantage.

[Full story at InfoWorld.com]

... [Jon's Radio]

Very interesting article.

Eric, your company uses Collabnet. Very smart.

Link: JBoss 4 : JBoss Remoting framework documentation available. [Welcome to the real world]

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:41:01 GMT

JBoss 4 : JBoss Remoting framework documentation available. [Welcome to the real world]

Link: Characters vs. Bytes. [ongoing]

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:36:33 GMT

Characters vs. Bytes. [ongoing]

Link: Cascading Fisheye Menus in Mozilla.. [SurfMindMusings] [Jon Schull's Weblog]

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:36:08 GMT

Cascading Fisheye Menus.. [Surf*Mind*Musings] [Jon Schull's Weblog]

JDistro: a Java-only desktop [Java in France]

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:16:05 GMT

Jsh is no more. So I have found another project, JDistro
This project goes further than Jsh: It's purpose is to offer a Java-only desktop where you can run many java applications in the same JVM at the same time. The project is quite good now, and guillaume (the project leader) is a nice guy.

Gérard
[Java in France]

My friend Laurent Daynes needs to look at that.

Netbeans 3.5 rocks. [Java in France]

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:13:10 GMT

Netbeans 3.5 rocks. and Using Netbeans.... [Java in France]

Good to see some people still love Netbeans. I have not used it in a few years and I need to catch up... as soon as my new machine arrives.

Gérard programs in java, loves Netbeans and lives in France: I need to meet that guy !

Re: AOP - another small step

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:10:01 GMT

In AOP - another small step Anthony Eden calls for "a revolutionary change in the world of software development". He especialy puts the blame on the fact that we stiff write text.

"Programming right now is still remarkably similar to programming of 10 or 20 years ago, perhaps even further back. Specifically we are still writing text and I personally find this to be a big problem. "

I could not agree more, and as I explain in my previous post, The future of AOP ? Intentional Programming ! , I think Intentional Programming is a good candidate for this revolution. The only thing I worry about is that it's still vaporware today, but I look forward to see what IntentSoft willl release !

Anthony you should read about that: I'm sure it is right on track with the ideas you expressed in your post, and in general in your weblog (editing an Abstract Syntax Ttree instead of text, Visual Programming).

Twisted Python. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:06:53 GMT

Twisted Python. The Twisted application framework provides rocket-powered tools for your next network application. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

I need soon to create a new Python category in my weblog :-)

Sudhakar gets a little help from his new friends

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:58:10 GMT

Request for help from a Geek Volunteer. Over the years, we've donated books to many nonprofits and schools in developing countries. Last October, I received an email from Sudhakar Chandra, a self-described "geek volunteer," that got me thinking about how O'Reilly and other companies could do a better job of supporting the good works of people like Sudhakar. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

I'm glad that Tim's helping Sudhakar. I used to work with Sudhakar when he was at Netscape and he was both an extremely competent geek and a good guy (I till have his old email address in my Netscape addressbook Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@netscape.com> :-)

I had heard from friends at Netscape that he left the company to do some humanitarian work, and that was well before the dot bomb: I admired him a lot for making this choice then.

Good luck Sudhakar.

Marc Fleury's white paper

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:18:48 GMT

Marc Fleury's white paper. An important document. Could be as influential as Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Looking forward to reading the Red paper.

Introducing jAdvise SEQUENCE.. [crazybob.org - web log]

Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:14:34 GMT

Introducing jAdvise SEQUENCE.. [crazybob.org - web log]

Haven't played with Crazy Bob's new toy yet (I work exlusively in the context of app servers these days), but as soon as I can find some time to experiment I'll give it a try.

A conversation with MySQL's Mårten Mickos. [Jon's Radio]

Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:53:55 GMT

A conversation with MySQL's Mårten Mickos.

[Full story at InfoWorld.com]

[Jon's Radio]

A conversation with Brian Behlendorf [Jon's Radio]

Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:52:58 GMT

A conversation with Brian Behlendorf. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]. ... [Jon's Radio]

Would Sun be the most intelligent company in the world ? A rant against ad hominem attacks in weblogs

Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:32:37 GMT

In The Stupidest Sun Employee Fred Grott attacks Simon Phipps, Sun's chief technology evangelist about a quote from him in the CNET article Sun reaches out to JBoss, calling him stupid.

The quote is:

However, Phipps said he doubts that JBoss software will pass the compliance test. Basing his opinion on public information, he said, JBoss software does not appear to implement all of the J2EE specification.

"I predict that now that we're calling their bluff, they will make up another excuse for not doing the tests".

This quote and the whole JBoss/Sun story has been covered much more thoughtfully in other blogs and articles:

What Is The Root Problem Between Sun and JBoss? [Random Thoughts]

Sun Gets Tough with J2EE 1.4 Certification [Silicon Valley Internet.com]

Sun offerring JBoss J2EE tests [A cup of JOE]

Disclaimer: although this weblog is private, I also happen to be a Sun employee. My views do not reflect those of my employer. Blah, Blah, Blah..., like Chiara says :-)

I won't prononce myself on the Sun/JBoss story for 2 reasons:

It is more a marketing/legal story than technical, so I'm not very interested in it
I don't want any trouble with the company which pays my check: I'm not as open as Russel Beattie :-)

I will just say that I have some admiration for the technical achievements of the JBoss team: I have read Marc Fleury's 2 books and the Blue paper, (see Blue, Why Marc Fleury loves EJBs) and learnt much from them, and I follow the JBoss 4 new AOP framework with great interest.

Fred is free to make ad hominen attacks if it suits his desire, but I just won't read him anymore. Too bad because apart from that his weblog was interesting to read and I was considering adding him to my subscription list. Attacking a man instead of his ideas is always a bad strategy if you try to convince people with a minimum of critical sense.

Then he's attacking the wrong man: I don't know Simon Phipps personally but I find his Webmink blog a pleasure to read and so far he's the only other fellow weblogger I know at Sun. If Simon is "the stupidest Sun employee", Fred's post can be interpreted as a great compliment to our company :-)

Last, in his post Fred mispels Simon's last name, calling him "Mr Philips": this should expose Fred to his own disdain, if you believe the post he made the same day about Tim Bray's XML being hard for programmers:

Lets just say if you are a reader of the this blog for any length of time you know my disdain for those who fail to read and process what they read.

Eat your own dogfood Fred :-)

Would Netscape have been monopolist? [CNET News.com]

Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:08:09 GMT

Would Netscape have been monopolist? [CNET News.com]

At least I could enjoy a "well deserved" early retirement :-)

What did Carlos do to his life when he decided to start his own company ? Hilarious, sad and scary post.

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:33:24 GMT

What did you did to your life, dammit? Carlos' schizophrenic conversation with himself about starting his own company instead of "fooling yourself with this sucky job of coding EJBs everyday and knowing they'll not even be used, as the whole project your're working on will die a horrible death sooner or later", and the consequences after he makes the move: no contracts, no money.

His text is very rich. It is at the same time hilarious, his observations being very accurate, scary because it's exactly what most programmers-would-be-entrepreneur entertaining the idea of quitting their well paying boring day job to go create cool open source software and get money doing consulting around it, fear will happen if they take the step.

Then it is extremely sad that his efforts failed and he is obliged to go back to a normal day job: the people at JBoss Group who sustain the open source app server development with fees for consulting and documentation offered us all a ray of hope that a new business model is possible for software development. Carlos' story shows that it does not work for everyone.

Patrick Chanezon: Open Source

Link: Best of Show. [Sam Ruby]

Link: Are Dynamic Languages Going to Replace Static Languages? [Ted Leung]

Link: Jabber or JXTA. [Welcome to the real world]

Link: Open Source and Open Standards.[O'Reilly Network MacDevCenter.com]

Link: Sun evangelist yawns about new Windows server. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Link: Opinion: Sun / JBoss Cold War Heats Up. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community Forum]

Link: AOP in Python

Link: Notes from the Chandler Demo

Link: Brian Behlendorf on the air. [Sam Ruby]

Link: The global advantage. [InfoWorld.com] [Jon's Radio]

Link: JBoss 4 : JBoss Remoting framework documentation available. [Welcome to the real world]

Link: Characters vs. Bytes. [ongoing]

Link: Cascading Fisheye Menus in Mozilla.. [Surf*Mind*Musings] [Jon Schull's Weblog]

JDistro: a Java-only desktop [Java in France]

Netbeans 3.5 rocks. [Java in France]

Re: AOP - another small step

Twisted Python. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Sudhakar gets a little help from his new friends

Marc Fleury's white paper

Introducing jAdvise SEQUENCE.. [crazybob.org - web log]

A conversation with MySQL's Mårten Mickos. [Jon's Radio]

A conversation with Brian Behlendorf [Jon's Radio]

Would Sun be the most intelligent company in the world ? A rant against ad hominem attacks in weblogs

Would Netscape have been monopolist? [CNET News.com]

What did Carlos do to his life when he decided to start his own company ? Hilarious, sad and scary post.

Link: Cascading Fisheye Menus in Mozilla.. [SurfMindMusings] [Jon Schull's Weblog]