I called him, we talked for a bit. But, the interview was never published. This was during the whole PACER controversy, before the events at MIT. IIRC I talked to Aaron for a few minutes and we both came to the conclusion that it wasn’t the right time for him to talk to […]
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This Strata trip was a 20 hour voyage through Silly Valley. I was working on zero sleep, here’s my rambling, sleep-deprived report. This is less a blog post and more an interminable mini-book full of non sequitur. My Strata 2013 Experience == Surgical Strike (on no Sleep) The original plan was to fly out Tuesday […]
James Turner’s post “Developer Week in Review: The overhead of insecure infrastructure” captures the hubris with which many developers approach not only security issues but a number of issues like performance or deployment. Here’s the paragraph Turner uses to hammer home his point: “Personally, I’m tired of wasting time playing mall security guard, rather than […]
Mike Loukides sums up the end of this phase of the Oracle v. Google trial in the title of his piece on Radar: “The End of a Fishing Expedition”. First, Mike is right, as he very often is, but this sentence gives me pause: The winner in the case isn’t just Google; it’s all software […]
As promised, I’m opening up the license for the cj-cookbook. I’m starting out with Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives-Non-commercial 3.0 US. So, I think that this license is a bit Draconian. It essentially means: “Can’t sell it, don’t use it for training, don’t change it, and tell everyone I wrote it.” Doesn’t that seem a bit […]
First, I wrote a quick piece pointing people to the Personal Genome Project. Church’s experiment is expanding beyond the initial group of 10 luminaries and is starting to invite more participants. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, from some discussions at last year’s Scifoo, I’m convinced that aggregating everyone’s Genetic sequence […]
This is a follow-up to the two O’Reilly articles from yesterday “Twittering the Swine Flu” and “Tracking and Graphing the Swin Flu with Twitter”. I’ve been using Twist to graph Twitter trends, here’s an interesting graph of the impact of Swine Flu on Twitter. What I find interesting about Twist is that it shows you […]
O’Reilly Tools of Change 2009: Tim O’Reilly makes the argument for Open Publishing from Open Publishing Lab @ RIT on Vimeo.
I did a quick pass to Common Java Cookbook to update some of the version numbers. Current release version is now 0.12, and you can expect a 0.13 release on Monday that is going to remove most of the references to “Jakarta”. This book uses the following versions of components: Component Version Notes Commons Beanutils […]
If you are just tuning in, Common Java Cookbook is an experiment in transparent, open writing. I’m trying to develop this book and make frequent releases every one to three days. The idea behind this book is that open source writing should be no different than open source software. This is the first post in […]
