Bertrand's brain grep

An Anonymous Coward (as they call them) on Slashdot provides the clearest explanation I've seen so far.

In RESTful apps, it is often useful to create hard to guess URLs, as a simple privacy device.

Earlier this week at the IKS general assembly I was asked to present a set of industrial validation metrics for the open source software components that IKS is producing.

When I was a kid, Citizen Band Radio (aka "CB") was all the rage if you could afford it.

My esteemed colleague Michael Duerig posts about Scala code being simpler than java.

What does the acquisition of Day by Adobe mean for Day's open source activities?

If you support this request, please vote for it in the comments below and/or on twitter using the #E17476 hashtag!

I just had to (re-)explain how the Apache way of working makes a difference by enabling a continuous flow of information between developers.

Here's a one-liner (well, two) that neatly lists all the Maven dependencies from your project.

Here's a "reprint" of an article that I wrote recently for the H, to introduce my talk at TransferSummit last week.

I recently bought a new Flyer electric bike, got a faster T8 HS ex-demo for a good price.

How many people today still think information is only valid or "serious" when represented on an A4 piece of paper?

I'm giving a talk today at the Open Source, Open Development, Open Innovation workshop in Oxford: Open source software is more than just a licence, it is also a software development methodology that allows companies to share resources and collaborate on n…

Looking at the diversity of Apache Software Foundation communities, one can see a recipe for failure: people from different cultural backgrounds, different mother tongues, different employers, different timezones...all working together to create some of t…

People thinking about creating an open source project might rightly consider hosting on one of the various hosting services available: Google Code, SourceForge, kenai, bitbucket and github come to mind.

We had a great NoSQL meeting yesterday evening colocated with ApacheCon.

I have just finished my slides for next week at ApacheCon.

I was at OpenWorldForum in Paris a few weeks ago, together with fellow Apache members Sander Striker and Emmanuel Lécharny.

For me the major IKS project event this quarter is without a doubt the Workshop in Salzburg at the end of May that I blogged about before.

Well, not exactly dead, but today the Apache Software Foundation elected a new board of directors: 2009 board: Shane Curcuru, Doug Cutting, Justin Erenkrantz, Roy T.

The ASF uses a (way too) large number of mailing lists for all its internal and project communications.

I'm on my way back from Salzburg where the Salzburg Research team organized a great meeting for the IKS project.

Although it's not that new, I discovered Don Brown's Maven CLI plugin only this morning, and played with mojavelinux' s enhanced version which supports -D parameters and profiles, among other things.

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, Korg, Oberheim (I've got a Matrix 6 to sell BTW ;-), may…

Lots of noise (and some gems) about the acquisition of Sun by Oracle on Twitter today.

Ok...so I got tagged by Irina Guseva on this one, started by Kas Thomas.

Swiss tourism's mountain cleaners movie by far my favorite April's fools / marketing gimmick for 2009.

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.

By popular demand (two people - that's about 100% of my readership!)

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.

I'll be giving three talks next week at ApacheCon, on OSGi, Apache Sling and Open Source collaboration tools.

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.

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.

The 2009 logo is fantastic, isn't it?

The program for OpenExpo 2009 Bern is just out, I'll be giving my Open Source Collaboration Tools are Good For You!

I'm looking for additional input for my Tales from the OSGi trenches talk, at ApacheCon EU 2009 next month in Amsterdam.

Just sent the explanation below to the newly created Server-side Javascript discussion group (thanks Lars for the ping).

I had a look at a few microblogging APIs, hoping to find one that's extensible and RESTful.

From the blogging this to remember next time department: find src -type f \\ | grep -v svn \\ | while read f do echo "FILE:$f" svn log -q done \\ | egrep 'FILE|bob' Additional svn log options like -r can be used to restrict the range.

Here's how to configure the JCR-Explorer tool under Tomcat, to use it with Sling.

The Apache Tika and Apache Pig podlings where I was mentor, have graduated a few weeks ago, both in the "galaxy" of Lucene-related projects.

Thanks to Renaud Richardet, who contributed a Python scripting engine for Sling, based on Jython.

That's the topic of my first post at dev.day.com.

Congrats to the Jackrabbit team on their 1.5 release!

Stadt-zuerich.ch is the first public website to run on Day's new CQ5 Web Content Management System (aka The Big Release).

Sling allows you to forget about the "J" in "JCR" - I love that quote from Adam Constabaris's excellent Apache Sling Overview slides.

As a fan of well delivered presentations (who cannot afford forklifts when speaking unfortunately) I find the girl effect's use of kinetic typography incredibly efficient.

I love cartoons - proud owner of Tex Avery's collection on DVD.

Let's talk about non-controversial subjects for a change: how do I find out in which svn revision a branch was created?

It's about the filters.