What if there was a Python library version of Apache Project?

The main draw to java for me was how rich the open source libraries especially the Apache libraries were. I have used them successfully for quite a number of years now. What would happen if there were Python equivalents of the Java projects at Apache? What would happen if Apache decided to use another language for the libraries and projects in their repository. What if Google switched what they use for GWT? What if good dependency injection like Guice and Spring used a whole different language? 

Apple was not crazy after all staying with Objective-C. This way they are beholden to no one. Time for the other groups to decouple. Isn't it what we are striving to do when we design systems?

World Cup 2014 Java, Scala showcase?

You think the JVM is big now. The JVM will be HUGE in 2014.

Why?

The largest and most passionate of the Java users with some of the most active user groups and most vociferous flag carrying Java One participants come from the host of the WORLD CUP 2014!

The largest sporting event  in the world, soccer, World Cup 2014, in Brazil....

One wonders what all applications built to support such an endeavor will be built in.SCALA, JAVA or no real benefit...

Your guess is as good as mine.

Microsoft readying Hadoop for Windows Azure

Good news for Apache Haddoop!

Microsoft will be using the java framework for Azure.

http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34319

Stories of Java's demise exaggerated

Quite frankly there is not a day that passes without somebody mouthing off and blogging that java is dead. To be honest people you will be dead and Java will still be around. I couldn't care less how cool it is to build an HTML page, in the end it is all a web page. Groovy and grails are already solving the problem of complexity. Try it for yourself and see.

Here are steps to build a sample app:

1) download grails from http://www.grails.org
2) Unzip file that you downloaded to some directory
3) point your GRAILS_HOME environment variable to the directory to which you unzipped the file
4) $GRAILS_HOME/bin/grails create-app myApp
5) CD to directory myApp
6) Execute grails run-app
7) open your browser navigate to http://localhost:8080/myApp


How hard can it be? Seriously.

You don't even need to configure a database if you are in a hurry a lightweight database is supplied.

Upgraded Ubuntu Feisty to Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy Gibon)

True to Ubuntu Linux form, this was painless as usual.

The following are the steps at the command line:

sudo sed -i 's/feisty/gutsy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -f install

And thats it! You're done!

Macbook Pro - wireless hell

After applying a security update for Mac OS X on my Macbook Pro my wireless has become absolutely unreliable. This is frustrating, my over the three years I have run Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, I never ever had problems like this.....and the operating system is free too :-(

What if JBOSS created an Opensource ERP?

With the current moves by Oracle and Microsoft to strangle Red Hat.
I wonder what would happen if they moved up the stack and started offering an opensource ERP.

It makes so much sense with all the Middleware pieces in place it is just a matter of tie I believe before we see something like that.
They would throw their hat in the ring to compete with the likes of Oracle Financials, SAP and Microsoft Dynamics or Navision. This is the
missing piece of the puzzle in my view.

JBoss already has a respectable standing in organizations and I think they could use the same service model for a truly open, reliable, robust and fully supported ERP.