Josh Tankel

Someone left a nice Bern helmet in our reception area yesterday (395 Hudson Street)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/technology-video/9827327/Sir-Tim-Berners-Lee-computers-can-do-whatever-you-can-imagine.html

He also comments on Aaron Swartz

‘To spur creativity, Google management created the concept of “20 percent time,” the portion of employees’ schedules that they could commit to entirely self-directed projects. At Valve, it’s more like 100 percent […]

Just a week ago an appeals court reversed the conviction of Sergey Aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs programmer found guilty of stealing code from the bank

“His services were in demand at Goldman, which […]

Here’s a pretty good post on Oracle’s patent infringement case against Google.

http://blog.headius.com/2010/08/my-thoughts-on-oracle-v-google.html

If you’re impatient, you can skip the introductory remarks. But, if you are interested in the political economy (so to speak) of Java, they’re worth reading.

Check this out: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/06/18/the-software-behind-facebook/. I find it interesting that Facebook uses such a wide variety of different technologies (they use Erlang for their chat service!). I think this is characteristic of the 21st century computing environment. Here at CIS we use Tomcat and WebSphere, open source Apache,…[Read more]