OpenSocial at Apache. It was bound to happen. I know most people will be interested in the open (?) and social (?) part of this proposal. I’m excited by something entirely different. It’s a JavaScript container with a PHP back-end. That brings the dynamic languages project count at Apache to three (along with Buildr and Log4PHP). I have it on good sources, that we’ll be seeing the first Rails app at Apache soon. And … Python anyone?
Eclipse gets REST. No, seriously. (Via Antoine Toulme)
Speaking of. The ApacheCon organizers were smart enough to schedule Fielding and Sanjiva back-to-back for the Ultimate wRESTling Match of 2007.
Money quote comes from James Snell (via Dare), and this one actually showed up in my feed reader as Sanjiva was talking smack about HTTPR (and rightfully so):
However, over the last two years I haven’t written a single line of code that has anything to do with WS-*. The reason for this change is simple: when I was working on WS-*, I never once worked on an application that solved a real business need. Everything I wrote back then were demos. Now that I’m working for IBM’s WebAhead group, building and supporting applications that are being used by tens of thousands of my fellow IBMers, I haven’t come across a single use case where WS-* would be a suitable fit.
Functional is the new Java. Or something to that effect.
And now, your moment of Zen. Dilbert responds to Andy Rubin’s ‘this time will be different‘:
Tech consortia for decades have been notorious for failing to live up to their promise. Google Director of Mobile Platforms Andy Rubin acknowledged the troubled history of previous consortia, but said that Android was different because “we’re actually releasing in one week this software.”
Matthew King
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