10 html tags you realy should know about
March 24th, 2009 • Comments Off on 10 html tags you realy should know aboutGreat post: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/10-rare-html-tags-you-really-should-know/
ModuleFusion – OSGi Service Platform
March 24th, 2009 • Comments Off on ModuleFusion – OSGi Service PlatformModuleFusion 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 internetNice 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