2005 October | .:: a few thoughts on the subject by rob wright ::.

October 26, 2005

IBM takes on JBoss

October 26th 2005 Posted to Variety

Announcing IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
This is an important announcement (along along with others) as it furthers the committment of big companies to open source products with support. Linux is mainstream with support from Novell, Red Hat, IBM, etc., but in an enterprise with a small IT staff, it’s difficult to build your business on software that’s free of commercial support. Having the source code is a big plus, but most of the guys holding the IT organization together don’t have time to dig through source to explain to the business side why a retail store or warehouse system is down.

The real question now is why does IBM provide so many application server options? It’s confusing.

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October 24, 2005

links for 2005-10-24

October 24th 2005 Posted to Variety

Unix for Advanced Users

(tags: unix linux)
Howto … remaster a KNOPPIX like LiveCD

(tags: knoppix)
VMware Player FAQs

(tags: vmware)

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October 23, 2005

links for 2005-10-23

October 23rd 2005 Posted to Technology

Programming For Hackers

(tags: hacks c)
alisdair: http://itunes.stanford.edu/

(tags: podcast itunes)

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October 21, 2005

links for 2005-10-21

October 21st 2005 Posted to Variety

Constructing Web Services with the Globus Toolkit Version 4

(tags: grid java)

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Bruce Tate on the Future of Java

October 21st 2005 Posted to Technology

Technologies to Watch: A Look at Four That May Challenge Java’s Development Dominance
Good insight, and definately the “party line” with the development press. My thoughts…

Dynamic Languages - There has to be some benefit to static typing. In my experience, everyone’s QA is just not that good, and it’s hard for me to believe that someone won’t discover a bug in a production deployment due to dynamic typing. The exception is probably application’s dominated by string manipulation such as web based applications. Just don’t think that dynamic typing is the best solution to every problem.
Continuation Servers - I completely agree.
Convention Over Configuration - I even more completely agree. I’m sick of “XML programming” so that I can have a fully configurable system. The configuration is as complicated as the runtime.
Metaprogramming - Sounds nice, but won’t I have the same problem that I have with existing O-R mapping frameworks? How do I handle complex joins?

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