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The Five Wisdoms of Open Development 15 Feb 2013 | 04:22 pm
Preparing my Open Development in the Enterprise talk for ApacheCon NA 2013 in Portland the week after, I’ve tried to capture the basic wisdoms of day-to-day work in an Open Development environment: If...
Ten years of blogging! 9 Nov 2012 | 03:49 pm
Although I had marked the date in my calendar, a great ApacheCon kept me busy and I missed Tuesday’s date for announcing that it’s been ten years now since I started blogging. Not that you’d care…thou...
Open Source Communites are like gardens, says Leslie Hawthorn 4 Jun 2012 | 07:41 pm
Great keynote by Leslie Hawthorn at Berlin Buzzwords today – here are my quick notes. As with a garden, you need to cultivate your community, it doesn’t just happen. You need to define the landscape...
RESTful services as intelligent websites 28 Mar 2012 | 02:16 am
Thinking of RESTful services as intelligent websites helps drive our architecture decisions towards simplicity, discoverability and maximum use of the HTTP protocol. That should help us design service...
Stefano’s Mazzocchi’s Busy List Pattern 7 Dec 2011 | 12:27 am
Since being part of a larger company, I’m hearing people saying “we need a new mailing list for that” way too often. People are afraid of busy mailing lists sometimes, but in terms of fostering open ...
MANIFEST.MF must be the first resource in a jar file – here’s how to fix broken jars 16 Nov 2011 | 05:22 am
Some tools, like the Sling OSGi Installer, require the MANIFEST.MF to be the first file in a jar file, or they won’t find it. This happens when using the java.util.jar.JarInputStream class to read a ...
Quick notes from Mark O’Neill’s Transfer Summit 2011 talk 8 Sep 2011 | 09:08 pm
Here’s my quick on-the-spot notes of Mark O’Neill’s (@marxculture) excellent presentation, on how a government’s IT can innovate. Citing Andrew Savory, never thought I’d see govt. spokesperson be ent...
Turning 42, and why I love my job 25 Aug 2011 | 09:46 am
I’ll be turning 42 in a few months (counting in base 12 of course) and it feels like a good time to reflect on what it is that makes my job enjoyable. My father was a carpenter, and both my brothers s...
How to fix your project collaboration model? 5 Aug 2011 | 10:32 pm
I’ve been studying the collaboration processes of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for a while [1], by observing and practicing the successful collaboration model that we use in ASF projects. Tak...
Becoming an Apache project is a process, not just a decision 2 Jun 2011 | 12:09 am
Zdnet.com is talking about the ASF accepting or rejecting a new project – let me mention that this is not exactly how things work. The only way to create new projects at Apache is through the Incubat...
