Google Summer Of Code 2009 – Real Soon Now!
The 2009 logo is fantastic, isn’t it? Flower power is not dead apparently. Google Summer Of Code 2009 starts soon, open source organizations can sign up starting March 9th (a very important date...
View ArticleLooking for use cases for a semantically enhanced CMS
Day is participating as an industrial partner in the Interactive Knowledge project, which aims to provide an open source technology platform for semantically enhanced content management systems. We are...
View ArticleThe CMS vendor meme
Yesterday my colleague Michal Marth launched a cool CMS vendor meme, challenging other vendors to self-evaluate their products according to the we-get-it-checklist suggested by Kas Thomas. Many vendors...
View ArticleReady for ApacheCon Europe 2009
I’ll be giving three talks next week at ApacheCon, on OSGi, Apache Sling and Open Source collaboration tools. Ruwan Linton‘s OSGi talk, which is scheduled after mine on Wednesday, also presents...
View ArticleTales from the OSGi trenches
My Tales from the OSGi trenches presentation today at ApacheCon went well, timing was surprisingly good given that I gave this talk for the first time. People can certainly relate to the issues that...
View ArticleOpen Source Collaboration Tools are Good for You – relooked and live tomorrow!
I have relooked and slightly expanded this presentation for tomorrow at OpenExpo in Bern – the main addition is a discussion of the fear of making mistakes in public. Talking to attendees last week at...
View ArticleOracle buys MySQL (as part of Sun) – a great time to have another look at...
Lots of noise (and some gems) about the acquisition of Sun by Oracle on Twitter today. But contrary to Oracle’s content servers, Twitter seems to be holding up quite well. I half-jokingly added my own...
View ArticleCMIS could be the MIDI interface of content management…
MIDI – the Musical Instrument Digital Interface – was created back in 1982 by a consortium of musical equipment manufacturers including, if I remember correctly, Roland, Yamaha, Sequential Circuits,...
View ArticleBack from a great IKS project meeting
I’m on my way back from Salzburg where the Salzburg Research team organized a great meeting for the IKS project. Flawless organization as usual, thanks and congrats! Today’s requirements workshop...
View ArticleJCR in 15 minutes
We had a great NoSQL meeting yesterday evening colocated with ApacheCon. Thanks Jukka for organizing! I was in track B for the second part, and found it very interesting to compare three different...
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