Sunday, March 29, 2009

From The Economist Entrepreneurship Special Report

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In the March 14 2009 Economist Special Report on Entrepreneurship , one choice snippet to cut out (emphasis added by yours truly): The Eu...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Recruiter Tip #1: Don't Block Your Phone Number

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(Part of a series I'm starting on how to be a better technical recruiter). One of the things that's most annoying about dealing wi...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Best Effort Delivery Fails At The Worst Time

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In an early post in the blog, I discussed the two fundamental types of MOM infrastructure: broker-based and distributed . A particular thing...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

AMQP: Community, Patents, Openness

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(Background: My initial rant on the Red Hat patent situation ; my rant on the Red Hat press release ). There's been a lot of public dis...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

AMQP: Why Do I Care?

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UPDATE 2009-08-18: I've been told that I signed an AMQP Reviewer Agreement, which is a different document from full licensees. I've ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Red Hat's AMQP+XML Patent Press Release

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Red Hat has finally come out with a statement on the AMQP Patent ( USPTO 20090063418 ) application. I have written about this already , pri...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Red Hat's AMQP+XML Patent Application: Stupid, Shifty, Short-Sighted

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UPDATE at bottom of post I've finally gotten word back from my moles that Red Hat has essentially stated that Patent Application 200900...