Well, I went to dinner here in Bathurst with the folks from Charles Sturt and Nathan Bailey of Monash showed up for a meeting tomorrow and James Dalziel of LAMS and MacQuarie fame was there as well.
Here is a cool picture of Nathan Bailey, Mike RIbecci, and James Dalziel – Matt is just to the left out of the picture.
http://www.dr-chuck.com/images/2006/10/index.php?img=31-10-06_054806_01.jpg
What a trip – San Francisco, New Zealand and Australia. Tomorrow morning – back to San Francicso and then home :)
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Open Source – “Free like a Puppy”
Brad Wheeler send around the following excerpt from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1632/a-marriage-of-open-source-and-commercial-software.
It is a nice article about how there is often a place for a blending of commercial and open source products at an institution.
It also invented the phrase “Open Source Software is Free – as in Free Puppy”.
Should one use Service Location or Service Injection
This is just one opinion – Sakai deeply loves both Location and Injection – both will be around for a *long* time.
My rough rule of thumb actually is to use Location in tool code and Injection in Service code. Although my personal example code (Presentaion tool) uses Injection for the tool jsut to show how cool I am.
Rain in Phoenix
Yesterday I saw rain in Phoenix. I never thought I would ever see rain in Phoenix.
Here is a video of rain in Phoenix that I offer as proof:
http://www.dr-chuck.com/images/2006/10/index.php?img=05-10-06_180104_01.3gp
Cool thing – it is raining again today!
Which Language To Use
A friend asked me to comment on which language to use and which was better. I whipped up this response.
I also was at the bookstore and skimmed a idtiotic book called From Java to Ruby written by Bruce A. Tate. It is a fun read but the guy is a moron. it got me thinking.
Don’t get me wrong – I like Ruby and see it as a neat point on the evolution of languages and explores neat space blending framework and language – but it is only a point solution and the book suggests that Ruby is a whole new species and will be LAMP – Hah!
There are a lot of contenders for the “What will be next after C# and Java burn out”. Ruby is cool but does not raise its head above the crowd.
How does Sakai Work – How do Decisions get made
I wrote this up in an E-Mail discusison and figured that it was kind of cool so I figured I would blog it. Feel free to disagree.