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By jettro, on September 30th, 2008
 From monday to wednesday I am attending JAOO in Denmark with 6 other colleagues. I am not going to give an extensive report, but some notes and remarks might interest you guys. Therefore a brief summary of what I have seen, the presentations I attended and the most interesting things I remember.
The first day in just a few words, not necessarily in order: Linq (why don’t we have this is java?), performance and scalability (still important), programming the cloud (gives new things to think about), google apis (wow there is really a lot you can do), scala (just not my thing), beer (there is enough here)
Read on if you also want to read more details
Continue reading Doing JAOO day 1
By jettro, on September 27th, 2008
 Some time a go I was talking to Freddie. We were talking about my previous article discussing open source : Open source, fashion or commodity. He asked what has changed in the last two years in open source landscape. One of the things that came to my mind is that I got the feeling that open source is becoming more professional. Together we started thinking whether this was good for open source in general or not.
The result of that conversation is this blog item, read on if you are curious …
Continue reading Does professionalization kill open source?
By Ben, on September 23rd, 2008
An opinion on SpringSource’s new maintenance policy
Introduction
On September 17, 2008 SpringSource announced a new Maintenance Policy regarding its software offerings, particularly its primary product (the Spring Framework) both in its open source and Enterprise editions. The new policy reads as follows:
Customers who are using SpringSource Enterprise, available under a subscription, will receive maintenance releases for three years from the general availability of a major new version. These customers receive ongoing, rapid patches as well as regular maintenance releases to address bugs, security vulnerabilities and usability issues, making SpringSource Enterprise the best option for production systems.
Continue reading When good guys start looking like bullies….
By jettro, on September 23rd, 2008
This is one of the smallest blog posts I have created. Still it is an interesting one if you are interested in google web toolkit or if you are a dutch reader looking for a vision to open source.
First I want to give a bit of attention to the book written by three [...]
By jettro, on September 20th, 2008
 Everyday I hear the words open source coming by more than once. Alright, I admit, open source is a big part of my work. In the ICT world talking about open source is very fashionable at the moment. If I am thinking about my situation at home or with my friends, it’s different. Open source, my wife does not have a clue and she does not care. Maybe I should talk in the past. A few months a go things changed. I moved from my previous employer to a small software company (jteam). The bigger company provided software like MS Office for use on one pc at home. Therefore my wife got used to having MS Word around. Now that I left that firm I had to de-install that software. Of course I had to give her an alternative. We could have bought a license of at least a 00 euros. At work I was using OpenOffice more and more. Therefore I suggested my wife to install it at home as well. Immediately my wife had questions like:
Isn’t that open office thing a lot harder to use?
Can I still open the sam documents at home as I can at work?
 This uncertainty was not surprising me, and I was prepared. I had open office installed on my machine so I could easily show it to her. I also explained to her that we use open office on a lot of different computers using windows, linux and of course my Mac. Another thing is that I am around on a daily bases, so I can always help her if she has problems. We downloaded the complete suit and within a few minutes (Yes I have a pretty fast internet connection) her laptop was prepared for first use. Now, after she has been using it for a few weeks, she had no complaints, so everything is working. Now I can proudly say that my wife is using open source software.
So can we concluded open source is becoming mainstream? Not just yet, read on to learn why.
Continue reading Open source, fashion or commodity
By Ben, on September 16th, 2008
That sounds unnecessarily uncomfortable
I was surfing the Web this evening and stumbled upon a rather uncomfortable-sounding suggestion by Samuel Hart regarding the disposition of Test-driven Development (TDD). Not wanting to spend my working hours squirming around on my seat, I felt that this blog deserves something of a reply in an attempt to address some of Hart’s objections to the practice.
Continue reading That sounds unnecessarily uncomfortable
By Allard, on September 1st, 2008
 OSGi has been around for a while, and it has been moving rapidly towards the enterprise java development. There are still some miles to be covered before the mainstream enterprise development will move to OSGi, but the first steps have been made.
I don’t believe any developer will be prepared to package the entire code base as OSGi bundles and deploy it in some OSGi container. The chance of running into class loading problems is too big for that. There is, however, a road in the middle, that will allow you to adopt OSGi in your project in a reasonable, controlled, but truthful way.
Continue reading Getting started with OSGi, for real
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