Cloud computing / SaaS shift

Good summary of the state, opportunities and threats of the cloud computing / SaaS shift.

A job in space and developing for Eclipse too

It doesn’t get much better than this!

The deal that never made sense now officially doesn’t make sense

eBay and Skype: bring on Wall St. to sort it out though.

A big vote for Scala then

This will do Scala the world of good.

GMF goes on a diet for Galileo

GMF has slimmed down for Galileo, this is good news. One of our key editors in Workday Integration Studio, our Assembly editor, is GMF based, and it is a bit of hog. It’ll be interesting to see what its like running under the slimmed down runtime.

To jar or not to jar (your Eclipse plugin / OSGi bundle)

That is the question, and it has been answered in Eclipse 3.5

Keep it close

Amazon seeing that people do care about where their stuff is hosted. I read technical and non-technical reasons for this.

JSR-277 is dead, but will it be a case of frying-pan to fire?

As widely reported, JSR-277 is pretty much dead, but as Neil Bartlett points out, will it be a case of from the frying-pan to the fire? I hope not, OSGi is the present and future of Java modularity. Lets all agree that now, and stick with it, and start reaping the benefits.

Will definitely give Clojure a look

Spotted via Bill de dOra’s post. Seem to be creating and using a lot of DSLs these days. And Lisp is not dead (sorry, inside joke).

“If you make a product enough times, consumers will learn to want it.”

I love this quote: “If you make a product enough times, consumers will learn to want it.“  Having the dubious honour of being part of one generation of this net/tv/book/phone/smart/small/web/thin/computer re-invention madness a few years back, I find this quite funny. Read The Register article here.