May 2009 Blog Posts (7)

SOA Design Patterns

I'm looking into best practices for design-time governance of services. Does anyone have any links or whitepapers they can suggest? Thank you!

Added by Sunny Wear on May 21, 2009 at 5:19pm — 4 Comments

Open Source Bridge

I'm Attending Open Source Bridge - June 17–19, 2009 - Portland, OR



Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages, and backgrounds to explore how we do our work, and why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on May 20, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

JSR Watch: Here’s to Progress

Here's an update from the Chair of the JCP and director of the JCP Program office: Patrick Curran



http://java.ulitzer.com/node/965152





JSR Watch: Here’s to Progress



And here’s to the next 10 years!

By Patrick Curran



May 15, 2009 03:00 PM EDT

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The end of the year is an opportunity to review the past year's activity, and to present this to our Executive Committee (EC)… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on May 19, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

All About Scala



Thanks to Carol for pointing this… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on May 15, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

On breadth vs. depth of technical knowledge...

What language should you learn? How about operating systems? Wondering what framework to add to your bag of tricks? Check out Jeff Thalhammer's blog to read one man's view. What do you think?

Added by Michael Levin on May 14, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Grooveshark Internship

Grooveshark is arguably the coolest place to work in the Swamp.

Added by Michael Levin on May 8, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

The Instructables



I was talking with my friend Daniel at the McRorie Community Garden in Gainesville yesterday. He said that gardening sensors were all the rage. Pointed to the… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on May 8, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

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