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Posted by: Kirk Knoernschild on April 28, 2010
It seems my recent post on OSGi has ruffled a few feathers. I’ve also received a few personal e-mails suggesting that I have missed the mark because OSGi is a significant component of the next generation application platform. Major vendors such as more »
Curious about Groovy and Eclipse?
Posted by: Andres Almiray on April 28, 2010
If so (and if you have the time) then please consider the following webminar by yours truly: Groovy for Java Developers. The event date & time is May 11th at 3pm GMT. Here's the quick abstractGroovy is a dynamic language that runs on top of the JVM, pr more »
Like speaking at a conference in my bath robe
Posted by: Dave Klein on April 27, 2010
On April 27th at 11:00am Pacific time, Mike Allen and I will be holding a free webinar on clustering and scaling grails applications the easy way. A webinar is a cool thing. It's like a tech conference session where you can't see anybody more »
The Exciting Enterprise
Posted by: Kirk Knoernschild on April 26, 2010
Developing enterprise software is hard work. Bureaucracy. Large teams. more »
Another Wonderful Review of Manage Your Project Portfolio
Posted by: Johanna Rothman on April 25, 2010
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Granularity: Architecture’s Nemesis
Posted by: Kirk Knoernschild on April 22, 2010
Granularity is the extent to which a system is broken down into it’s behavioral entities. Coarse-grained entities tend to be richer in behavior than fine-grained entities. Because coarse-grained entities do more, they tend to be larger than fine-g more »
Complexity: Essence and Accidents
Posted by: Kirk Knoernschild on April 19, 2010
I’d like to take a short moment to offer an additional perspective to my discussion on OSGi: Complexity is NOT the Problem. I believe this perspective adds clarity to that previous discussion, as well. All initiated thanks to a tweet, which summed u more »
Adaptive Planning and the Personal Learning Curve
Posted by: Esther Derby on April 17, 2010
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OSGi: Complexity is NOT the Problem
Posted by: Kirk Knoernschild on April 15, 2010
The editors at SD Times have proclaimed that OSGi is too complex. Unfortunately, they miss the mark, and the following statement taken from the article is misleading. We believe that OSGi, rather than simplifying server application development, has actu more »
Upcoming Groovy/Griffon talks
Posted by: Andres Almiray on April 13, 2010
It's been a while since I last blogged here and that's because of a good reason: just relocated to Switzerland (Basel actually) to join an incredible team! There so great I can actually spend some time out of the office to attend a few conferences and loc more »
OSGi – Feast or Famine?
Posted by: Kirk Knoernschild on April 12, 2010
I want to be careful here, but also very clear – I advocate OSGi and modularity, though am concerned about its future. In some circles, OSGi is hailed as a disruptive technology; in others, it lives in relative obscurity. There are some indications more »
?berConf
Posted by: Dave Klein on April 8, 2010
I am very excited about the upcoming ÜberConf - June 14 - 17, Denver, CO. Even before I found out that I'd be speaking at it, I was planning to attend. I've been to a lot of conferences, and I think this is going to be the best one ever more »
Context + Semantics + Phones = Consumer-Oriented Semantic Applications
Posted by: Brian Sletten on April 5, 2010
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