This is quite astonishing: I am sitting in a public elementary school in Massachusetts, happily booting my laptop to finish reading some PDF document. After logging in I suddenly notice that my wireless adapter picks up a network: ‘linksys’. Amazed…
Author: Gerald Beuchelt
In order to go through some exercise here, I recently needed to create a few Java classes from XSD schema. “Well,” I thought, “JAXB with its integrated XJC is your friend!” And so it is, but you might have to…
… software, that is here the question. There have been quite a few comments for the leadership of my employer lately (GregP, JonathanS), and now Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu chimes in. His argument goes as follows: Microsoft (and in extension…
You can find some information on this at the “On The Record” blog, including a link to the official text of the NAC. Now let’s hope that more folks issue a similar covenant. This time, Eve was faster than me…
Drummond blogged about semantically meaningful identifiers – really interesting. I particularly like his example … and Drummond: I am perfectly happy for you to use my identifier in this example 😉 tag: identity, XRI, OpenID
Wow, sensible ideas *do* seem to spread by themselves … I just read in eWeek that more and more companies are using desktop virtualization. No kidding. I have been using desktop virtualization for more than 4 years now, with my…
Mike Jones has blogged about Microsoft’s latest OSP covered specification. Large chunks of the InfoCard protocols that appeared on Kim’s blog over time are now in this refatored version of the spec. I did not have the time yet to…
Last night’s untalend show was – as usual – quite interesting. Here is the lyrics of some of Eve’s andmy song (snippets): Twinkle, twinkle WS-StarHow I wonder what you are Architecture in the skyNow in part in WS-I Twinkle, twinkle…
Today, we (pre)-announced at the IIW 2007 a non-assertion covenant (NAC) for OpenID. What does this mean? First, the NAC is a short (three paragraphs) legally binding document that licenses all of Sun’s patents (and not only necessary claims) to…
Here are my slides to yesterday’s mini talk in the java.net community corner. OpenID JavaOne.pdf (380.11 KB) tag: identity, OpenID, sunopenid