DJ’s Weblog

Some thoughts on improving the OSS experience.
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Is the InfoTag on WAS going to be worth it?
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Our talk on SAP R/3 and Open Source went down well at OSCON this year. Especially of interest was the section on producing RSS from R/3 to carry business data.
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I don’t think I mentioned it directly here (perhaps partly a cause and effect of the recent blogging hiatus) but the Google Pocket Guide has recently been released. Hurrah! It’s a book I worked on with Rael and Tara (nice work, you two!). Talking to people at O’Reilly last week at OSCON, it seems the [...]

Well, OSCON 2003 is over, and I guess all the attendees are more or less home by now. I got home on Monday night, after a detour to work in London. Tons of ideas and inspiration came forth during and between sessions this year, like the last two years I’ve attended. It’s a double-whammy — [...]

I’m sitting here in a wonderful arcade of 80s arcade games, listening to Rush, arguably the best rock band ever, drinking beer, and enjoying WiFi, all courtesy of Stonehenge, and in particular Randal Schwartz, the maverick entrepreneur who happens to be a great teacher of Perl.
Stonehenge is hosting a post-OSCON free beer and [...]

Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman were keynoting at OSCON this morning. It was a great talk about the Mono project and a cool demo of Dashboard. I managed to convey some of the presentation to the #dashboard folks who couldn’t be present. It was also really refreshing to see source code, system [...]

On each occasion I’ve travelled to the USA, either on business or for pleasure, I’ve entered the country with a rather bitter taste in my mouth. Each and every time I’ve been grilled by rather demeaning and unfriendly customs and security employees. I landed and went through security and customs in Minneapolis, and yet again [...]

Birds Of a Feather session on SAP and Open Source
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In the past, I’ve mentioned to friends some of the thinking I’ve had about the Semantic Web, RDF, and related stuff (FOAF, RSS, and so on). Yesterday’s stuff, for example. On more than one occasion the response has been along the lines of “where are the apps — why are you thinking instead of doing?”. [...]