The peering has been back since Friday according to Telia and idg.se (1, 2), and it really seems to be working fine now!
Andi Gutmans: “Java is losing the battle for the modern Web”
Andi Gutmans (of PHP fame) has written a very interesting blog post about Java’s future on the web. The article is called Java is losing the battle for the modern Web. Can the JVM save the vendors? He gives some good arguments for using a LAMP stack for web applications.
One of the interesting quotes is:
Project Zero’s Chief Architect is one of the first IBMers to admit in public that Java today can be considered as a system language and is not desirable for building RESTful Web applications […]
This was apparently a bit out of context, according to the comment by Jason McGee, but fun to read nevertheless.
He makes a prediction that shall be interesting to see if comes true:
It has taken over 10 years for the Java stronghold to admit Java’s poor ROI on the Web and with the current recession it is likely that many Java customers are going to be making more informed investments. As a result there will be considerable rise in uptake of dynamic languages.
My cape and sword
In the Walt Disney short animated movie Ferdinand The Bull the matador never get to show off his cape and sword. Sometimes I feel like the matador and want to show off my cape and sword (i.e. my programming skills), but for various reasons I can’t. The bull (i.e. the task at hand) might be too big, too small, or not even there…
Right now I’m pretty confident in writing custom Ant tasks and using HttpClient. It’s a pretty small bull, but not too bad.
SSL certificate anguish
Today I overcome my SSL certificate anguish. It used to be a bit of a mess to get it right, but it’s so simple on Ubuntu nowadays. It is almost only running the apache2-ssl-certificate command that is needed.
Øresund Agile 2008 conference program available
As promised, the conference program for Øresund Agile 2008 is now available. Both the workshops and the talks seem really great! See you June 9–11!
Mandriva synchronizes Windows Mobile devices out of the box!
I read Guido Diepen’s blog post Syncing WM5/WM6 made easy with new Mandriva and it seems like Mandriva has made SynCE and OpenSync work out the box with no pain whatsoever. It’s like a dream coming true! 🙂 Here is Adam Will’s video Synchronizing with Windows Mobile 5/6 made easy in Mandriva. Watch and enjoy!
No peering between TeliaSonera and Cogent Communications
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I noticed yesterday that I could not visit The Daily WTF or Podomatic. Today I started investigating and __henke__ in #data on irc.freenode.net told me that my ISP Telia and Cogent Communications had stopped peering.
Related links in approximately chronological order:
- The Telia-Cogent Spat Could Ruin the Web For Many (gigaom.com)
- Cogent depeer’er Telia (sunech.com)
- Amerikansk operatör stoppar Telia (idg.se, in Swedish)
- Update Telia och Cogent i uppgraderingsbråk (idg.se, in Swedish)
- Update Cogent: "Telia bröt mot kontraktet" (idg.se, in Swedish)
- Update Information om stängda förbindelser mellan Telia och Cogent (telia.se, in Swedish)
- Update Cogent CEO: Peering Breakdown Is Telia’s Fault (gigaom.com)
The networks affected are AS1299 (TeliaSonera International Carrier, TSIC) and AS174 (Cogent Communications).
Update It seems like www.webservertalk.com is unreachable for the same reason.
Unboxing the Softhouse Scrum Master Kit
I promised to show the Softhouse Scrum Master Kit and now I have selected a few images.
Either browse the slideshow or read more below!
Microsoft earns money from iPhone 2.0
The developer.apple.com server seems to be overloaded at the moment, but the iPhone Developer Program will probably be acccessible in a day or two. Mac Rumors are of course covering the story. Apple will add lot of enterprisey things to iPhone 2.0, so that Microsoft will get a few bucks for each iPhone.
By the way, Google released Android SDK m5-rc14 the other day…
Atom Publishing Protocol is the Web API standard
Google has used Atom and the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) as basis for its Google Data APIs (GData) for a while, and now Microsoft announced their support for Atom and APP. See also the InfoQ article.