November 19th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, oss
Lots of news on Chrome OS today, but nothing to suprising as far as i can tell. Chrome OS is basically just an operating system than boots straight into a (full screen) browser. All your apps will be web apps.
Seems logical. Most of the time i just boot my computer to get online: read news, [...]
October 24th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
Stefan Tilkov blogged on the recently created SOA manifesto. He’s a big proponent of using REST(ful HTTP) for achieving SOA goals. One of the reactions he got on a previous post on this topic states that REST and SOA are incompatible, as REST is not about services but about resources or documents (with a standardized [...]
July 10th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, web
I’m convinced that open webtechnologies are suited for more than just web page development. I don’t see why you can’t write desktop applications using open webtechnologies. So, I’m also pretty optimistic about what Google is trying to do with Chrome OS.
Many of the problems people currently see with Chrome OS are in my opinion [...]
June 30th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, web
Firefox 3.5 has been released. Not everybody is excited about this release, but most reviews are quite positive. In my opinion, the enhanced javascript performance is the most important improvement, but features like the html 5 video and audio tags, offline support, @font-face, geolocation support and cross site XHR are not to be underestimated.
As far [...]
May 30th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, web
I’ve just been watching the google wave presentation. Pretty amazing application, it’ll probably scare the hell out of a number of communication software providers. But what’s even more amazing is that it’s almost entirely build using HTML 5. Just one feature needs the Google Gears plugin: drag and drop of desktop resources to the web-page. [...]
April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
I just uploaded the slides of our JSpring presentation to slideshare: “REST, het internet als database“.
Like most of my presentations, there’s not much text on the slides, so i’ll summarize here:
We start with one slide of JAX-RS code, just to mention that we’re not going to talk about code.
Next, we mention Stefan Tilkovs summary of [...]
April 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, soa
Just read Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?. The article argues that LinkedData, aka the Semantic Web, aka Web 3.0, might be a threat to Googles dominating position.
I was actually thinking the opposite. To me, Web 2.0 and SOA seem a bigger issue for Google. Web 2.0 interfaces are mostly [...]
February 18th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, open standards, oss
I wrote a small Python program today, to see if a could create a workaround for a problem i have in Java. I’ve written a couple of Java applications that use OpenOffice’s API to create ODF and MS-Word documents. The OpenOffice API that i used in Java is pretty horrible: very verbose, not intuitive. You [...]
February 17th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, oss
One important aspect of open source is often overlooked: collaboration. Open source enables organizations to collaborate on building the software they need. Too often open source is just consumed: downloaded and installed because it’s free.
To my surprise, the report i mentioned earlier, Ranking OS and OSS: NOIV monitor does reward organizations that release their own [...]
February 17th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, oss
A study by a dutch government agency (ICTU) was just released which discusses the current results of implementing open standards and open source by dutch government agencies: Verbinding in het vizier (dutch, pdf).
What is interesting is that the results are not just discussed, but all agencies are ranked by their results to implement the [...]