May 21st, 2007
Tom Baeyens has written a nice blog introduction to a technical article on the Process Virtual Machine.
Tom’s blog is great, because it gives you an understanding of the problems and commonalities between various process/workflow/orchestration technologies. I faffed about with Werkflow though a few revisions, all failing miserably.
I think workflow (and rules) will ultimately be [...]
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April 24th, 2007
While you sit down to enjoy that turkey or tofurkey sandwich at your desk, perhaps you could surf over to JBoss.ORG and marvel at the new design, organization and layout.
The team that pulled this together includes Adam Warski, Tomek Szymanski, Rysiek Kozmik, Przemek Dej, Pawel Wrzeszcz, Mark Newton, James Cobb and Meriah Garrett. Assists [...]
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April 18th, 2007
Today, my Canadian friend Jason van Zyl announced his new company based around all things maven.
Jason, as you may know, is the founder of both Maven and the first maven-centric company, Mergere. For some history, Mergere was a child of Simula Labs. Simula started life as a VC-ish incubator, but now seems to [...]
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March 26th, 2007
JBoss.ORG represents the opensource side of the house. Though, for some reason, we look just like the commercial side of the house.
You also end up at labs.jboss.com even though you typed jboss.org into your browser. Quite odd.
No really, we are kinda sorta separate from the mothership.
To help differentiate between the two, and try [...]
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March 26th, 2007
As noted previously, many of our projects are capable of sustaining a vibrant sub-community. This includes portlets, ESB connectors, side-projects like Drools.NET, things to jack into JCA, or even our growing collection of JSF things.
There’s activity related to these communities that .ORG needs to support. We’ll be making it easier for these friendly [...]
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March 26th, 2007
If you don’t measure, you can’t tell if you’re doing things right or wrong.
You can measure downloads (accounting for spiders, bots and attacks), site visits, RSS subscriptions, site registrations, forum posts. All sorts of things.
You can measure how many issues are opening in JIRA versus those that were closed in the last week. [...]
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March 26th, 2007
There’s people out there talking about us and our projects. They’re blogging. They’re writing articles. They’re speaking at conferences.
And we don’t necessarily promote them on JBoss.ORG very well yet.
We need to start pointing out to our community when others in the community are speaking.
Del.icio.us can help.
Every day, JBoss developers and community members [...]
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March 26th, 2007
Tomek and Mark are working together to figure out our wiki/CMS strategy. Ultimately, we have the use-cases of
Easy-to-use for developers & community members
Freakin’ pretty to look at
Browsable through a portlet on jboss.org
Versioned (just like the code it matches)
Multiple formats (HTML, PDF)
Multiple languages
We’re not sure what form this will all take, but it’s the goal.
We [...]
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March 26th, 2007
To say that “blogging” at JBoss has been contentious would be an understatement. There’s currently two different places/ways of blogging at JBoss. And one of them allows blog posts to go missing without a trace. (Thanks Blojsom!)
Ultimately, software to allow humans to blog isn’t overly interesting, until you get to the point of [...]
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March 24th, 2007
Just got back from Vegas, where I participated on a panel about opensource and business at TheServerSide Java Symposium. It involved five of us from businesses that were related to opensource in some form. It did not include Geir Magnusson, who apparently had better things to do.
Alfresco, John Newton
JBoss, some guy with a [...]
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