“One of the biggest reasons for the SOA is change management for inter-company business processes”.. says Rob Barrett, VP of solution engineering at E2open, quoted at Line56 . Couldnt have said it better. (via Phil Wainewright)
The Bangalore Linux User Group’s monthly meeting had a screening of Revolution-OS . Very good of them, considering that this is not something I would expect to find in my friendly neighborhood rental shop.
Favourite quotes:
Bruce Perens on the criticism that Free Software/ Open Source is similar to communism - “Karl Marx did not invent the concept of sharing with your neighbour”.
Linus Torvalds on the VA Linux IPO, and the fact that he’s not cashing in on the billions people are making on Linux - “If I hadn’t given it away, I wouldn’t have made any money on it”.
Just recieved this from a friend. Go read this . Amazing!
WS-I has announced the public availability of the Basic Profile 1.0 . I think this is a big step forward for the WebServices world… these are exciting times! As members of WS-I, we are of course comitted to this standard, and so are very happy to say that Wisiba is already compliant.
For a long time, I have been reading blogs directly on the web. Recently decided to look for a desktop aggregator to run.
While NetNewsWire and NewsGator seem to be the most polished products, us users of an higher operating system :) have to struggle a bit.
Spaces wouldnt correctly go through a proxy, and didnt seem to handle links within stories too well. AmphetaDesk worked for a while, but then started throwing perl errors. Its probably something wrong with my perl installation, but i didnt have the will to debug! Peerkat has problems with almost half the feeds I gave it. Straw , using Mark Pilgrim’s Ultra Liberal Feed Parser would presumably have been able to read any feed, but the ultra long list of requirements scared me off, particularly since I use KDE. BottomFeeder was interesting, if only for the reason that its written in Smalltalk, but i couldnt get it to save my proxy settings. Also it seemed slightly klunky.
So I finally settled on NewsMonster. Though the docs suggest you not try this with Firebird, it seems to be OK. It (or possibly the Java plugin) cant handle proxy configuration files, and I am not to sure how to get the three paned view working… but other than that, it seems to its job reasonably well.
If you spend a lot of time reading other people’s weblogs, each talking about the other, you picture a very large and vibrant community. That may be so, but given the state of aggregator products, are weblogs going to make a difference outside geekdom?
Been thinking about getting on the bandwagon for quite some time.. so here goes. Will anyone read this? Lets see… :)