Adobe CEO questions Microsoft Silverlight cross-platform commitment. Well I question Adobe's. The Mac plugin for Flash 9 has been a bit finicky at best (granted I don't use it regularly). The Linux plugin is only now stable. There is no "official" version of Flex Builder for Linux despite this being Eclipse and there being no technical obstacle to releasing one. Apollo was originally not listed to be released on Linux and now will be released (like Flash 9) some months after.

Steve Loughran writes: Contractual disputes between Apache and Sun notwithstanding, if you do get access to a JCP TCK, and the TCK is only available under NDA, then only a restricted subset of developers can see the tests. Those who have an access, have to keep it a secret. Although they can see the tests, they can't file bugreps that disclose public details of the test. That is, they could enter a bugrep that says "test 1032" failing, but not "test 1032 fails because https.

Shawn the Rock posts this awesome picture: of a fellow in China's response to a Microsoft chat at a local university. While we at Buni (uh hum) love ALL operating system vendors (for the record we do kinda think Exchange sucks, but who doesn't huh?), the message totally resonates with us man. First off, this would take balls to do in the US. In China it would take BRASS ones. Secondly, he isn't so infested with dogma that he only says Open Source or only Free Software...

Apparently I'm not the only one excited that this time next week I'll be on the LUG tour at Linuxfest Northwest. We'll be doing a meldware talk/demo on both days @ 10a. I hope to see you there.

Okay we have some sort of weirdness going on with CVS. It took some dirty hacking but now anonymous CVS access to Meldware works again. I'm not sure why the normal way of doing things did not work. Oh well. Anyhow...fresh open source...come and get it.

Congrats to my former JBoss coworkers Roy Russo and Tom Elrod on their new venture, LoopFuse. It is a pretty ballsy move to do this in open source and I'm sure won't be without controversy. Roy has posted a good introduction to "demand generation" here but basically it tracks clicks, ties it to customer records and helps you decide where the areas of interest are. Some may view this as the embodiment of "the man" but trust me this kind of tech can make a company.

Congrats to my former JBoss coworkers Roy Russo and Tom Elrod on their new venture, LoopFuse. It is a pretty ballsy move to do this in open source and I'm sure won't be without controversy. Roy has posted a good introduction to "demand generation" here but basically it tracks clicks, ties it to customer records and helps you decide where the areas of interest are. Some may view this as the embodiment of "the man" but trust me this kind of tech can make a company.

Hi all, we're working feverishly towards release and we could really use a hand in a number of areas. If you're a Java or Javascript developer and have been thinking about getting involved and haven't taken the plunge because you don't know where to start. Write me at acoliver -at- buni -dt- org. I'd love to hear from you.

Hi all, we're working feverishly towards release and we could really use a hand in a number of areas. If you're a Java or Javascript developer and have been thinking about getting involved and haven't taken the plunge because you don't know where to start. Write me at acoliver -at- buni -dt- org. I'd love to hear from you.

The TriLUG meeting went off without too much of a hitch. Though oddly, and this is the one last place that Linux truly blows, I got my projector to work after two days of twiddling with the help of the folks in the #trilug IRC room on freenode. However, I could NOT get it to work for the presentation. It did however work with Red Hat's projector (the meeting was at Red Hat HQ). My wife is testing out some cookie recipes for a business she may start.