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ModuleFusion – OSGi Service Platform

March 24th, 2009 • Comments Off on ModuleFusion – OSGi Service Platform

ModuleFusion won one of the awards at EclipseCon 2009. ModuleFusion describes itself as:

The goal of ModuleFusion is to help programmers to use the OSGi Service
Platform as their underlying runtime environment. ModuleFusion contains
a full stack typical for Java enterprise applications. This stack
currently consists of best-of-breed open source frameworks from the
Java ecosystem. Additionally, ModuleFusion contains the necessary glue
code to easily use these frameworks within OSGi.

It currently consists of the Equinox as well as the Apache Felix OSGi framework. nice work & congratulations!

P.S. another award winner was: http://directory.apache.org/studio/

Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data

March 20th, 2009 • Comments Off on Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data

Tim Berners-Lee gave a great talk at TED2009 conference (I have mentioned TED some time ago 🙂). He mentions DBpedia which aggregates data from all kind of source…Very interesting! Besides tht also Openstreetmap ist mentioned another great tool.

A video of his talk can be found here.

So do not forget: Tim Berners-Lee needs your raw data!

The slides Tim presented can be found here (Click the screen to get to the next slide)…

Cloudera annouces commercial support for Hadoop

March 17th, 2009 • Comments Off on Cloudera annouces commercial support for Hadoop

Cloudera annouced that they would offer support for Apache Hadoop on their website. Apache Hadoop is inspired by the Google technologies MapReduce and Google Filesystem. Nice detail: Hadoop is named after the stuffed elephant of one of the engineers kid.

Michael Olson is stated as the current CEO of Cloudera. He formly worked for Sleepycat who created Berkeley DB. They where later bought by Oracle. Nevertheless the idea to bring enterprise support to Hadoop sounds nice.

BTW another interesting posting about Sun Grid Engine and Hadoop: http://blogs.sun.com/ravee/entry/creating_hadoop_pe_under_sge

Who protects the internet

March 17th, 2009 • Comments Off on Who protects the internet

Nice article on popsci.com about undersea cables, repairing them, and how the Internet works: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-03/who-protects-intrnet

Totally worth a read!

Are you a developer? Have you read these books?

March 11th, 2009 • Comments Off on Are you a developer? Have you read these books?

So you are a software developer? The next list is a set of books which I would recommend to read 🙂 Might not be complete so feel free to add some more!

CodeCraft – Pete Goodliffe
Beautiful Code – Andy Oram; Greg Wilson
Code Complete – Steve McConnell
The Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
The Mythical Man Month – Frederick P. Brooks
The Productive Programmer – Neil Ford
Practical Development Environments – Matthew Doar
Head First Design Patterns – Eric, Elisabeth Freeman
The Art of Agile Development – James Shore, Shane Warden
Managing Software Requirements – Dean Leffingwell, Don Widrig
Managing Iterative Software Development Projects – Kurt Bittner, Ian Spence
Refactoring – Martin Fowler
Testing and Quality Assurance for Component-Based Software – Jerry Zeyu Gao
A Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software – John D. McGregor, David A. Sykes

Beside all these nice books there are plenty of other books around which are great. For example books about programming languages, getting things done, presentations, etc…So grap a book and start to read 🙂 In my opinion good code quality starts with the developer. And a developer who is informed, up-to-date and knows what he is doing writes quality code!