Subscribe to this newsletter here Tweet of the Day Today, we're very happy to have "spied" on our users as we can now show you a whole Tweet Conversation of the Day It was initiated by Dan Woods who proposed a talk about RxJava, jOOQ and Reactive Streams at GR8Conf. https://twitter.com/danveloper/status/553370842948567040 Dan Woods then proposed … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: January 21, 2015 – Groovy and Open Source – jOOQ and the strong Swiss Franc
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Suis-je Groovy? No! What Pivotal’s Decision Means for Open Source Software
Today there was great news in the JVM ecosystem. Pivotal, the company who is committed to OSS has become a bit less committed: The reaction in the community were largely summarised by the hashtag #jesuisgroovy: https://twitter.com/jbaruch/status/557129532931469314 The interesting part in Pivotal's announcement is this one: The decision to conclude its sponsorship of Groovy and Grails … Continue reading Suis-je Groovy? No! What Pivotal’s Decision Means for Open Source Software
The “Free”, “Standard”, “Open” Software Heresy
There are those people that have a strong, dogmatic belief in what they call "Free" or "Standard" or "Open" software. One of those individuals is Jimmie (let's call him Jimmie in this article) who has responded to an article about Java persistence by Marco Behler on TheServerSide. Let me cite Jimmie's response here: JPA is … Continue reading The “Free”, “Standard”, “Open” Software Heresy
Free as in Beer has caused Heartbleed (and Much More)
Heartbleed is a bit over one month old now. A bug significant enough to have its own Wikipedia page. Today, we're going to look into how wrong we have been in assuming that Open Source software is more secure than commercial software, because of our thinking that source code is open and that many developers … Continue reading Free as in Beer has caused Heartbleed (and Much More)
jOOQ Newsletter: January 22, 2014
Subscribe to the newsletter here Tweet of the Day We are contributing this new section of the newsletter to our followers, users, and customers. Here are: Jose M. Arranz who has had plans to build jOOQ, when he happily discovered that jOOQ already exists https://twitter.com/jmarranz/status/417956223468982272 Majid Azimi who wishes for jOOQ to become the new de facto standard in all … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: January 22, 2014
The Open Source Bikeshed.
"Him" or "They"? English language aficionados haven't yet decided what to do with a singular pronoun of unknown (or irrelevant) sex. On Stack Exchange's English Language and Usage site you can find lots of questions like this one, explaining the context. Let's talk about code. When coding, we also write documentation. When writing documentation, we … Continue reading The Open Source Bikeshed.
Oracle GlassFish, or Why You Should Think About Open Source Again
Oracle's recent announcement about the discontinuation of commercial services for JEE's reference implementation GlassFish has caused many reactions in the community involved with JEE. The reactions reach from: Markus Eisele's rather pessimistic outlook on JEE's future in general Adam Bien's constructive (or cynical? With Adam Bien, you can never be sure) suggestions of moving GlassFish … Continue reading Oracle GlassFish, or Why You Should Think About Open Source Again
A Significant Difference Between Open Source and Commercial Software
A recent event has triggered a lot of interest in the debate about the good and the bad parts of Open Source. Oracle's attack on Open Source. For large corporations who aren't Red Hat, taking a stand on the topic is far from easy. Oracle used to sell only commercial software, but has since acquired … Continue reading A Significant Difference Between Open Source and Commercial Software
jOOQ™ 3.2 Offering Commercial Licensing and Support
Four years ago, the Java database middleware market was dominated by a variety of ORMs implementing JPA. This paradigm was hardly challenged by alternatives. There was a gap for an API making SQL a first-class citizen in the Java language ecosystem and jOOQ had come to fill this gap. With jOOQ, developers who engage heavily … Continue reading jOOQ™ 3.2 Offering Commercial Licensing and Support
10 Reasons not to Choose a Particular Open Source software
We're all Software Engineers of one type or another. Most of us have one thing in common, though: We're lazy. And we know that someone else was less lazy and has already solved that tedious problem that we're on. And because we're not only lazy but also stingy, we search for Free Open Source software. … Continue reading 10 Reasons not to Choose a Particular Open Source software