In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Stefan Tilkov introduces the audience to REST seen as an architectural style. He thinks that REST is not an alternative to SOA but it can serve SOA to reach its goals. Stefan also covers other related topics: HTTP, WS-*, SOAP, CORBA, RPC, enterprise, in an attempt to make the listeners understand what REST is and what is not and how it helps.
Watch: REST: A Pragmatic Introduction to the Web’s Architecture (1h)
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
Linus Torvalds is a regular visitor to Australia in January. He comes out for some sunshine and to attend the annual Linux.conf.au organized by Linux Australia. He took some time out to speak to Rodney Gedda about a host of topics, including point releases, file systems and what it’s like switching to GNOME. He also puts Windows 7 in perspective.
Q&A: Linux founder Linus Torvalds talks about open-source identity
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
They came from all over the world, sporting many of the usual signs of software mercenaries: jeans, ponytails, unruly facial hair and bloodshot eyes.
All the fuss at the meeting centered on something called Ubuntu and a man named Mark Shuttleworth, the charismatic 35-year-old billionaire from South Africa who functions as the spiritual and financial leader of this coding clan.
Created just over four years ago, Ubuntu (pronounced oo-BOON-too) has emerged as the fastest-growing and most celebrated version of the Linux operating system, which competes with Windows primarily through its low, low price: $0.
Continue reading A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows on New York Times.
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
I was looking for an e-commerce solutions based on Java.
First all I searched on google and I found the article on TechNewsWorld regarding Is E-Commerce Ready for Open Source?.
After that I read about KonaKart: Free Java-based online shopping cart on InfoQ. Thefore so far, KonaKart looks like the best e-commerce solution using java platform or the only one.
If you know any other open source Java solution for e-commerce, leave a comment here.
I will be testing KonaKart soon and I’ll sharing my experience here.
Thanks
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho