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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Embedded Lightness

I was out with a long-time friend and former co-worker last night. He's been working the last year or so on software for managing blade servers. Technically this is an "embedded system". Some veteran embedded system developers on his team have been learning just how much their field has changed.

Essentially the system consists of linux, lighttpd, php, and sqlite. Where the veterans were set on writing a lot of C and custom protocols for handling events in the server (blades coming and going, for example), they've been able to do everything using the web's architecture. They wrote some C to enhance the php interface to snmp.

They had some pre-existing C code that has a memory problem after some number of days. No problem, they just kill and restart the process well before that. When that code becomes the most important problem, they'll look at it.

Job Opportunity

Mike's got a job posting up at his new gig. You'd be working with a smart, funny, curious (in the good sense!) project manager/developer, on an interesting problem, and a high-powered executive team.

You don't have to live in Portland, although why would you want to live anywhere else?

Monday, December 03, 2007

Safety Dance

Douglas Crockford at XML Conference 2007. You can dance if you want to...

The current browser implementations have problems because they share all of the information between the current sessions (problems with cookie stealing, replay attacks, and chrome changes). That’s the dangerous web 1.0. Now, we’re trying to intentionally mashing stuff up (which we’d always tried to prevent when unintentional).

Meet the new Reg...

Paul Fremantle on WSO2's registry work...

For a while I've been thinking that the SOA registry space has been a little overcomplicated...

So fundamentally the approach we have taken is to build a registry/repository based on REST concepts. And as we looked at the REST space, we kept noticing how close the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is to our needs, so we've made that the public remote API to access the repository. Of course, if you are just browsing the registry, you only need a browser - APP is mainly there to support updating resources.

Of course, using Atom and APP gives some really nice benefits too - like being able to subscribe a feed of new resources that meet your search criteria.

Glen Daniels was talking about this registry in the hallway at QCon a few weeks ago. Nice. You could definitely see Glen's gears turning during the sessions and discussions.

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Reg

Some folks have been quoting Reg Braithwaite lately. (Steve Vinoski did just a bit ago.) Here's another...

I have never met someone who desperately wanted to be great but failed to be at least decent.
That's a good observation. And almost Goethe-like.

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