Archive for the “Technologies” category

Toward Real Extensibility in Sakai

0zach17th Jul 2009Conferences, For Developers, Sakai, Technologies

At the Sakai conference in Boston, I sat on a great panel with other developers and discussed what it would really take to More »

What if a Hard Drive is Only a Cache?

1zach25th Nov 2008For Developers, Technologies

When computers like the MacBook Air started coming equipped with solid state drives (SSDs), I thought the technology is cool, but it seemed More »

IMS Learning Impact

1zach22nd May 2008Conferences, IMS, Sakai, Technologies

Last week I was at IMS Learning Impact 2008 just up the road in Austin. The Sakai Foundation generously sponsored me to go, More »

The Winding Journey of Java DB

1zach1st May 2008For Developers, Technologies

Java SE 6 has finally arrived on the Mac with a recent update, so I was over on Sun’s website reading about all More »

The Business Value of SOA

2zach28th Apr 2008Found on the Web, Technologies

Having heard about SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) for a long time without having any idea what it is, I was happy to discover More »

WordPress 2.5 coming soon

0zach26th Mar 2008Technologies

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 More »

Interface21 now SpringSource

0zach28th Jan 2008Found on the Web, Technologies,

I guess this happened late last year, but it escaped my notice: Interface21, the company behind the Spring Framework, has changed its name More »

IMS Common Cartridge Alliance

1zach28th Jan 2008Sakai, Technologies

I just signed up as a dues-paying member of the IMS Common Cartridge Alliance. IMS CC is a standard that has been evolving More »