Thursday, 3 July 2008

Another Mouth to Feed: Marcus Schaefer

After a sleepless night Marcus was born this morning 7/3/08 at 7:51. He weighted 8lb and was 21'' tall. He and his mother are feeling great and recover from the stress. I am sleeping a few minutes here and a few minutes there which does not really help to recover but that will take some time anyhow. Maybe the 4th of July will give a chance to sleep a few hours during the day even though I don't like to do that at all.

Beside a relative simple delivery we had the fortunate that Marcus was born in his amniotic sac which is rare and many see that as a sign of luck.

Next Stop: Joy keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 4:47 PM in Open-Source

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Thursday, 24 April 2008

Is OpenSolaris an Indicator for the OpenJDK Project?

Through Wired.com I ran into this blog entry talking about what Sun did since open-sourcing Solaris. Immediately this reminded me of the feelings I had even during last years JavaOne as Sun announced the open-sourcing of Java and especially afterwards when I tried to provide a little enhancement for the java.net.URLConnection class. I was part (before and/or after) in 4 projects that Sun open-sourced and all of them more or less had the same issues. Most of these issues are based, in my opinions, on two facts:

The open-source project was not organically grown but pushed out by Sun
Instead of coaching the open-source project Sun is still trying to maintain some control over it

keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 8:42 PM in Open-Source

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Wednesday, 26 October 2005

So Let's Clone JBoss: II

To clarify my previous blog when I said to Clone JBoss I meant to take the JBoss code base, replace every occurance of the name JBoss with another name and publish this as a new open-source project. This way there would be a project available with the same code underneath but not bound to the trademark of JBoss. I indentionally did not call it a Fork because I do not indent to develop this project like Geronimo did. Currently I do not believe that Geronimo does contain any code from JBoss anymore and so they are completely distinct. Of course, if developers would like to add keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 2:00 PM in Open-Source

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Tuesday, 18 October 2005

So Let's Clone JBoss

The JBoss Inc. is trying the carrot and stick tactics with the open-source community lately. After Rickard and Matthias bloged about the trademark problems the JBoss Inc. tried to ease the community by saying that anyone can give training about JBoss (sorry it is German) even when they are not a partner. Now, one would might think that everything is fine but anyone who knows them knows that this is not for real. A few days later B keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 9:42 PM in Open-Source

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Thursday, 13 October 2005

JBoss and Bushism or the Art of Covering Up a Mistake

What would you do when you made a mistake in the public eyes and should apoligize? Of course, you would revert back to engage in Bushism where you do not apoligize and keep your response so general that nobody can attack you or judge what happened. When that is not good enough then you would engage in personal attack undermining the opponents credibility and try to devert from your mistake. Now excatly that did JBoss Inc. when they had to respond to the JBoss Issue raised by Matthias and Rickard. As you can see in keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 1:14 PM in Open-Source

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Monday, 12 September 2005

Stealing the JBoss Way

Do you remember when some guys of the JBoss Group quit and started Geronimo by forking JBoss and then rewriting the content to create another open-source J2EE implemenation. In case you do not here is what happened. Marc Fleury and/or the jBoss Group removed them from CVS (no surprise), removed from the website and even threatened them with a lawsuite. And I do not want to talk about all the fud that was spreat.

Today I was checking out keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 5:17 PM in Open-Source

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Friday, 9 September 2005

JPodder in the News

jPodder gains some traction lately and seems to help us to grow a bigger audience and maybe in the process some desperately needed support on the coding side.

1) jPodder was listed as Duke's pick on java.com

2) Marcel Gagne made jPodder his Linux App of the Month on UnixReview.com

3) We were added a keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 12:19 PM in Open-Source

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JBoss slow on Linus: I don't think so!

A few days ago I started to look into a strange problem where JBoss seems to be quite slower on Linux than on Windows on certain occassions and on others not. After using JBoss AOP on the client and server side I could iron out that somehow the network seems to be slow but not the execution of the EJB. At the end it turned out that the DNS settings for the box where out of sync with the NIS settings and so the creation of the sockets seems to cause the performance hit. As far as I know and I am not a network expect Java's I keep on reading here

Posted by schaefera at 12:09 PM in Open-Source

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Thursday, 7 October 2004

Mozilla's Firefox Browser is Cool

Yesterday I downloaded and installed Get Firefox! Mozilla's Firefox Browser. It really looks neat and work relatively fine. So far I am impressed with the overall quality and looking forward to the final release. I also installed it on my Linux box and there it works fine as well.

Have fun - Andy