London meetup?

I'm in UK for Publishing 2.0 on Wed 25th April and will be overnighting in London on Wednesday, back to Dublin Thursday p.m. If anyone out there wants to meet up in London on Wed night or on Thursday morning/lunch, get in touch.

I'll push and you pull. The mashup approach to application integration

"...If you are thinking that this makes REST look more and more attractive, especially the plain-old-GET bits, then I'm right behind you.

If you are thinking that all the loud barking from the Web Services standards world to solve the problems of push-centric design might be barking up the wrong tree, I'm right behind you there too."--
I'll push and you pull. The mashup approach to application integration

Re-purposing: the new king of content?

"Since the dawn of time people have used their higher order faculties to creatively re-use the content created by others. Also since the dawn of time, people have used their higher order faculties to spot such re-use and take whatever action they deem necessary.Re-purposing: the new king of content?

Barcamp Dublin Jython Talk

So yes. Ehm. Where was I?...

Oh yes, I will be talking about Jython at the barcamp in Dublin. I will be talking about how Jython can make some of those pondorous enterprisey applications out there get up on their pretty little tippy-toes and dance around like sprightly, gamboling, agile, 21st century web apps. Odd isn't it...that glue languages unstick things so well...

Open Source, Open data, Process Models

A while back I argued that Open data is more important than open source.

Dave Megginson has posted that your data is the next big battle. This is a key point. Its good to see the debate moving to this important question.

I'm hoping that as part of this, folks will begin to think about how process models - as opposed to traditional source code - might provide a better way of "open sourcing" key information about how open data is processed to produce particular results e.g. WYSIWYG renderings of documents.
ODF, I think is a good forum for this. As ODF grows and grows, the gap between what any ODF compliant application does interpreting the data, and what is explicit in the data - will need to be filled.

Traditionally, reference implementations (i.e. traditional source code) has been the way to do this. "Running code" is the final arbiter.

Maybe this is as good as it gets? Unfortunately, a fully blown word processor runs to many, many thousands of lines of code and the semantic devil is buried way down in the details...

Linux pre-installed on a Dell laptop

I'm currently a very, very happy Lenovo Thinkpad user but if Dell
offer me Linux pre-installed on one of their boxes, I would be very inclined to go back to Dells.

Application Research

"As a sanity preservation device, I have devised a little litmus test that I use when evaluating software applications..." -- A simple litmus test for where to spend your application research time