Spam count. Travelling for four days with limited Internet access, I came back to clear 1385 pieces of spam from my e-mail, and 1883 pieces of comment spam from the blog(s). That’s more e-mail/comments than I read in a year. No one has free time to weed through all this crap, so either you’re not effective with your e-mail/blog, or it’s turning into a technological barrier. And I’m not seeing anything that will fix that.
Regular expression cheat sheet. Another good one from ILoveJackDaniels.
Don’t slow down. From an upcoming research about open source development: “Open source defies conventional wisdom about collaborative projects. For example, most office workers know that the slowest member of the team sets the pace for everybody else. But in open source projects, work moves at the speed of the fastest member of the team, and adding more hands speeds things up rather than slowing them down, Devanbu said.”
Damn the details. Rob Levy, BEA’s CTO: “Well, sure. A lot of the products, the ESB (enterprise service bus), require some of the Java container services but dos not require a full JVM (Java Virtual Machine)…. If you’re really building full-scale applications on Java, you need [the] full WebLogic Server. But if you only need the Java container, but not the JVM that’s run underneath that, then why not just take that and package that with the ESB?” There’s a lot more hand waving and technical snafus in that InfoWorld interview. Four days later, InfoWorld follows with another article calling the BEA product strategy: fuzzy. I’m anxious to see how BEA will innovate around SOA, but I guess I’ll have to wait a longer for the product line to catch on the buzz.
Be wary of clumsy incentives. From a presentation by Tom Coates. (Via Michael Meiser)