WatTF? – Jim Murphy

As of Saturday June 28th here is what I’ve been able to collect:

Mindreef acquired by Progress Software (Jeff Scheider)

Progress makes another SOA acquisition: Mindreef (ZDNet)
Progress Software Acquires Mindreef, Inc (Webservices.Org)
Progress Software Announced Its Acquisition of Mindreef at SOA World Conference (SOA World Magazine)
Progress makes another SOA buy (NetworkWorld)
Progress now eats Mindreef … must be hungry [...]

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As Jeff Schneider rightly mentioned Mindreef has been acquired by Progress Software.  Much more information will be forthcoming in the weeks ahead. For now we’ve setup a FAQ page to handle some of the basics.  I’m excited to see Mindreef in its new home and now fully to realize what a great new home it [...]

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OK This on is a serious PIMA.  Why doesn’t ruby’s require involve the requiring files directory int he LOAD_PATH

1 require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + ‘/../foo’)

You see this all the time at the top of Ruby source files? This is the Ruby Way?
I would expect to write:

1 require “../foo”

and have require – try matching against the requiring [...]

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Progress Software (NASDAQ:PRGS) announced today their intentions to acquire IONA Technologies plc (NASDAQ: ADR) for $162M.  Its clear Progress is going for a SOA industry roll-up and I’m excited to see the breakout from among the non-mega platform vendors: IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Sun.
IONA has struggled to redefine themselves in the post CORBA, SOA world and [...]

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Just caught the TC post launching TechCrunchIT.  It will be nice to have TC style energy in this space – the encumbant news sources seem so formulaic and still not quite adapted to a non-print media way of life.  Subscribed.

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I love Ali’s customer service framework used at Well.ca.  I think customer service is a very misunderstood concept.  I’m amazed how common the push back I get from people in service roles (which is EVERYONE) thinking customer service is about ass kissing – and that’s something they don’t like to do.  Thinking that good customer [...]

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So this in ancient history at this point but I’ve been sitting on a draft post for months and I need to “clear the pipes” so I’ll post it into the archives.
I attended Comunitech’s CEO Dinner last March and was hauled on stage for a lesson in humility by Marshall Goldsmith (along with Jeff Fedor [...]

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I just read Randall Howard’s post: Early Adopters versus Business Models: Shooting Yourself in the Foot?
My liked the end when Randall raises the issue of mobile data rates and the inevitable dampening effect it has on Canadian (and American) mobile software development companies – startups especially.
The problem is more pronounced in Canada but the US [...]

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Java is an enterprise software language and almost never used “out in the wild” where Web 2.0 style sites and services live. At least that’s what I keep hearing. Most web types think in terms of PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby it seems.
One thing I’ve come to realize is that there is remarkably [...]

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The fine folks at AideRSS have made their GoogleReader integration available today. Its no hoax – the real deal. I’ve been running versions over the last month or so and its changed the way I manage my ~300 (and growing) feeds.
Here’s to our evolution to better subscription management!
1. In the beginning, I would [...]

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