May 2008
12 posts
“When you’ve been living in Ruby-land for a while, Java’s verbosity starts to...”
– Tim Bray talking about a RESTful JavaOne
“Turkish Delight” Some music that I...
“The victims will only notice it when they purchase a new computer… At that...”
– Mark Pilgrim on Microsoft pulling support for MSN Music. DRM truly does suck.
“Virtually every useful tutorial in the world was written by a...”
– Archive post on Why Specs Matter by Mark Pilgrim. Made me smile. I am, of course, a moron :-)
Adobe push Flash closer to the Open Web
Adobe are continuing their drive to open up some of their Flash related technologies by opening up the formats, removing licensing restrictions and dropping royalty fees - now being branded as the Open Screen Project. It will be interesting to see how this plays into the recent discussion about the Open Web but it can’t do the web development community any harm. Personally I still think that...
One Spring to rule them all... →
SpringSource have released their own proprietary application server based on Tomcat & OSGi. Their website announces the news with much fanfare - “SpringSource Redefines Application Server Market”. Well blow me down. Interesting that they’ve chosen to use the GPLv3 license rather than the Apache v2 license that the rest of the Spring framework is released under. Also ironic...
