Inchoate Curmudgeon

Zed Shaw is ranting about Rails. The effects are palpable. People are talking about the post. I’ve seen no less than a dozen tweets on Twitter in the last hour or so, and it has been by far the vast majority of the tweets about Rails. The post is clearly consistent with a theme of healthy […]

Oracle Mix may be the first production deployment of JRuby, and is certainly the first deployment of JRuby in an Oracle Application Server. I got a chance to meet and talk with Rich Manalang and Jake Kuramoto who have been working on getting the site up. It took a mere two weeks to put the […]

Robert Scoble just posted an entry titled “Steve Ballmer Doesn’t Understand Social Networking“. The article provides a reasoned perspective on the inability of some business people, notably Microsoft in this case, to understand the full implications of the social networking evolution.

The larger truth to the story is really about trust and how we converse. We […]

I agree with Hugh that Web 2.0 is for everyone, although blogging may not be. Frankly, I really need it to be, since these tools are becoming the primary mechanisms for social interactions in my daily workday world. I think we face the same kinds of barriers our great-grandparents did when the telephone was introduced […]

While browsing James McGovern’s blog entry, “Links for 5-12,” I ran across a link to a post by Bex Huff, “What is an Architect?” Talking about this is a bit of self absorbed navel-gazing that makes the rounds where I work every once in a while. Nonetheless, I will throw in a couple of […]

I was on a staff call this morning where the subject of red-shift came up. Its a hot topic with the Sun Executive, promoted to help balance our focus between bread-and-butter data center solutions and supporting atypical, non-traditional, hyper-growth markets requiring massively scaled, extreme-availability solutions. Of course, it’s easy to pick a heated discussion in relation […]

There are 11,399 blog entries Technorati tagged zooomr, must be at least 100 in the last 24 hours. I’ll leave it to the reader to sift through these to get a blow-by-blow of what’s going on. Basically, it seems like the entire blogosphere is watching “the little photo sharing site that could” pull from the […]

A month or so ago I stumbled across a sad blog post by Jason Hoffman at Joyent. It described the utter apathy Joyent ran into trying to purchase some Sun kit about a year and a half ago. I know things have changed in our relationship; Sun shared a booth with Joyent at the recent […]