Technologies
IMS Learning Impact
Last week I was at IMS Learning Impact 2008 just up the road in Austin. The Sakai Foundation generously sponsored me to go, since I have been involved with Sakai’s support for IMS Common Cartridge for a couple of years. Michael Korcuska’s blog post about the event is here.
I have been guilty of moving exclusively [...]
The Winding Journey of Java DB
Java SE 6 has finally arrived on the Mac with a recent update, so I was over on Sun’s website reading about all the new stuff and Java DB caught my eye. This is a small, all-Java database that can be embedded in applications on a desktop, a server, or a mobile device. The reason [...]
The Business Value of SOA
Having heard about SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) for a long time without having any idea what it is, I was happy to discover this talk by Anne Thomas Manes which finally sheds light on the subject for me.
Key points for me:
SOA aims to tackle the problem of too much cost and redundancy in enterprise IT If [...]
WordPress 2.5 coming soon
Matt Mullenweg gives us a preview of the soon-to-be-released WordPress 2.5.
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/
They’ve been working with the web geniuses at Happy Cog and the results look awesome.
WordPress is seriously firing on all cylinders. It’s a Good Thing.
Interface21 now SpringSource
I guess this happened late last year, but it escaped my notice: Interface21, the company behind the Spring Framework, has changed its name to SpringSource and has a spiffy new website to go with it.
The Spring Framework has come to be synonymous with enterprise Java. It’s a great example of the cream rising to the [...]
IMS Common Cartridge Alliance
I just signed up as a dues-paying member of the IMS Common Cartridge Alliance. IMS CC is a standard that has been evolving for several years, with the ultimate aim of creating a single format for publishers to create course materials that can be loaded into any learning management system.
I wrote the underpinnings of IMS [...]