Pragmatic Dictator

• SwingLabs Release Philosophy
  Could be relevant to Apache River with all our separate projects, a core and a need for some kind of starter package.
  (tags: opensource projectmanagement)
• SwingLabs Roadmap
  More like a shopping list but it’s a start. Interesting that they want to focus on deployment…..a growing theme across Java-land.
  (tags: java swing gui roadmap)
• grizzly: Project Home Page
  (tags: java networking nio http)
• Making it stick: Transactional Memory Discussion
  Patrick’s right, shared nothing is the way to go. Retro-fitting database internals into a programming language? I don’t think so, it’s not friendly on SMP let alone multi-core or distributed processors.
  (tags: concurrency stm research)
• The critical importance of “beginner mind” when starting a business
  Good philosophy applicable to all sorts of things including martial arts.
  (tags: business businessmodel)
• Do entrepreneurs still need to write business plans?
  Shared vision, gooood.
  (tags: business startup Entrepreneurship)
• Beta of S3DFS for EC2
  (tags: storage amazon ec2 s3)
• Hotspot Calling Conventions
  (tags: hotspot java jit)

I really like this interview with DHH.

Just listen to what he has to say about mainstream and the compromises that brings. And then think about what’s happening to the Java platform and the prevailing attitudes that drive the likes of J2EE.

And then see if you still wonder why these “upstart technologies” are gaining ground. There’s a lot of good stuff in here around pragmatic thinking, design philosophy and industry behaviours.

Doesn’t matter what your favourite programming languages are, this interview stands watching a number of times.

Oh, and the secret to Rails’ success?  DHH, not Ruby not Web 2.0.

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I wrote something about parallels between distributed systems and real life which included some stuff on the bird flu’ outbreak here in the UK. Imagine my surprise when I saw this referral!

Made me smile anyways, not quite the readership I was expecting!

This really shouldn’t be difficult, it sounds like a repeat of the kind of issues we had with Applets. Didn’t we learn anything?

Once again, Java was built for this not monolithic, static applications, why is it so hard? Because we’ve not done anything to sort out issues with classloaders and remote code-loading or delivery of classes in .jars in a long, long time.

Sun, stop ignoring the core philosophy of your own software platform, please, it’s excruciating.

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…..has been worshipped for a long time but there are various barbarian enclaves that are not ready to kneel before him.

Enterprises certainly want the money saving opportunities of utility computing options such as EC2 but there is evidence to suggest that RDBMS’en aren’t cut out for this role.

And recent statements on TSS suggest some people are at least beginning to think that we are mis-using RDBMS’en ignoring it’s lack of suitability to a task because it’s an easy option.

Time to seek a new religion?

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