What Sun Should Do
"So I’d like Sun to set the JCP free, turn it over to the community, and when we develop some cool Java-based technology in-house, take it to market, try to make some money with it, and after it’s caught on and the bugs are shaken out, consider whether or not it ought to be taken to the JCP."
Goodbye mouseover, hello mouseenter
"I decided that mouseo...... [Show More]
what sun should do Post Source: feeds.the451group.com Posted: Nov 27 2008 13:43:34
…is the title of this post written by Tim Bray a few days ago in which he outlined the directions he would like to see his employer take to improve its fortunes.
He also invited others to continue the thought process. Many have already done so (I’ll include the best in tomorrow’s CAOS Links post) and given my recent constructive criticism of Sun’s open source ...... [Show More]
This is a response to What Sun Should Do by Tim Bray
What Sun should do is making sell Sun products easy. Maybe in the US it’s easy to buy Sun through the reseller/VAR channel but it’s not in other countries.
For instance, in Spain none of the major wholesalers ( Ingram Micro , Techdata and Esprinet ) sell Sun products (they are not even in their product catalog!...... [Show More]
eggplants Post Source: www.uvox.us Posted: Nov 26 2008 09:11:25
I actually don’t like hardly anything made with eggplant, butI’m glad other people do so that there are baskets of them at themarket to take pictures of. This is at the Granville Island Market a month or two back. And now the United States checks out for the rest of the week togive thanks. Generally I’m in favor, but it means Canadianemployees of US companies are pretty paralyzed....... [Show More]
Patrick Logan throws some cold water on Tim Bray’s web triumphalism:
In the history of the web, it’s still the Stone Age. We have not even discovered metal yet. We’re just beginning to maybe glimpse what the Bronze Age might be like....... [Show More]
A few years ago I heard programming language people talk about
the "Nuclear Winter" in languages caused by Java. The feeling was
that everyone had so converged on Java’s computational model (C# at
that point seen as little more than a rip-off) that creativity in
programming languages had disappeared. That feeling is now abating,
but perhaps a more important t...... [Show More]
In case you’re still not convinced about the caliber of presenters and presentations you can experience at CUSEC, here is the first in our video series showcasing the keynote speakers from the CUSEC 2008 conference.
Tim Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada in 1987–1989, co-founded Open Text Corporation in 1989, launched on...... [Show More]
My final presentation for the week is up on SlideShare .
At first I was worried this might be a bit too "out there" , but feedback has indicated the presentation was well received and provocative in the right ways, particularly in getting people working on REST to talk more about areas that have been usually punted, particularly the design of "inte raction-or iented&quo t; in...... [Show More]
Tim Bray of Sun explains, on his ongoing blog, how he uses his Mac . He’s a real nerd, but with a gift for communication. You’ll learn something about making your Mac more productive if you read this....... [Show More]
links for 20081115 Post Source: gfmorris.com Posted: Nov 16 2008 02:30:11
ongoing · How I Use My Mac
It's always interesting to see how others use their machines.
(tags: Mac OS_X )
Path Finder 5.0.2 | Mac Gems | Macworld
Alex is always after me to use this.
(tags: Mac OS_X Finder software )
Mail's random and sequential signatures | Mac 911 | Macworld
Nifty!
(tags: mail.app signatures )
solecist....... [Show More]
byebye ab Post Source: www.uvox.us Posted: Nov 15 2008 04:11:04
Not unexpectedly, A&B Sound has gone out of business . This one hits me pretty hard. For a while there in the Nineties, Vancouver was more or less the world headquarters of decent cheap music retailing, and A&B was the big dog. I didn’t go in that often, but just about every time I did I’d drop a couple hundred dollars, which went a long way at an average price of around $12. The selecti...... [Show More]
Character encodings are a necessary evil for programmers. It something that I wish I could forget, but to be competent I need to know about them.
I’ve read Tim Bray’s writings on the subject . I’ve read Joel’s writings on the subject .
And it still bit me in perhaps the simplest form possible, when I wasn’t paying attention. I didn’t even have to swi...... [Show More]
And so the Ole filter makes its daily pass, from Salvador , and this time well rested...
Brad Feld has a few requests for President-elect Obama :
Appoint Some High Profile Republicans to Your Cabinet.
Veto The First Pork Laden Bill.
Continue Being Confident But Not Certain.
It’s a good list, I agree with all of them. It will be interesting to see who he does appo...... [Show More]
Worldwide economic concerns are not the usual fodder for the FBS Blog, which is focused on the narrow vertical of the MLS industry. However, another topic of interest here is employee ownership, as FBS is a 100% employee-owned company. We’re a small company, with just 40 employees. Fortunately, we’re also a successful company. So it is with detached concern that I, as the C...... [Show More]
I received this gem in my feed reader today from Tim Bray’s Ongoing, as the opening of his description of what regulations he thinks should be implemented in wake of the financial crisis:
Oh, and if any right-wing fundamentalists or Randroids want to explain how if government just gets out of the way the market will protect us, please first read this and then go away. Thank you.
Ra...... [Show More]
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