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Category Archives: ASF
NoSQL
NoSQL databases have been around for a while and they offer a lot of attractive features. I’ve been meaning to have a look at CouchDB for a while and having some time I’ve spent some time over the last few … Continue reading
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looking back, looking forward
I’ve been a member of the ASF for a while now. During my time as a member the foundation has changed and I find myself wondering where it’s going and how much the ride will cost. No organisation can afford … Continue reading
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people.apache.org goes live
After a reasonable amount of time and effort by several people the community site is now live and available at http://people.apache.org/. I’m very glad it’s made it to, what should be, it’s final resting place. The automatic generation script seems … Continue reading
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committer information
I’ve been spending a bit of time recently getting the committers information on asylum working correctly in preperation for it’s move. Sebb has been keeping me honest by catching a lot of minor problems and pointing out IE issues that … Continue reading
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event pictures
After advertising the committers site a little more it now has details for over 100 ASf committers. Not bad, but there are still over 1,100 who haven’t added their details yet. Somehow I suspect the current layout and organisation won’t … Continue reading
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asf committers information
A while ago I started looking at using foaf files to allow ASF committers to add their information to a web site. All too often committers to the ASF go unnoticed and I felt it was about time we had … Continue reading
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projects.apache.org
After a couple of days of hacking on XSLT the site is now back in (almost) full working order and is updating on a regular basis. The reasons why this hasn’t been the case are boring and long winded, and … Continue reading
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apachecon us round up
I’m home again after completing the journey home from Austin. The conference was good fun and quite unbelievably I think I managed to complete my entire ToDo list! Rich and I worked really hard to achieve the goal of releasing … Continue reading
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apachecon todo list
As I’m almost done with my packing and it seems as though todo lists are the “in” thing this time around… record a feathercast a day record some material for future feathercasts work on moving mod_sparql towards a filter and … Continue reading
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community information
One of the projects I’ve been interested in working on for quite a while now has been gathering and sisplaying information from all the committers involved with the ASF. The number is over 1200 now and keeps growing, so it’s … Continue reading
ASF Calendar
A while back I spent some time and wrote some scripts and XSL that handle RDF calendars. The idea is the same as the other RDF stuff I’ve been doing – allow people to maintain their own data and have … Continue reading
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calendaring for the asf
I’ve been playing more and more with RDF technologies over the past 6 months and have started to see a lot of potential uses for the technology within the ASF. I’ve created a few demonstrations in the site-dev sandbox I … Continue reading
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letting go
One trait that I’ve found most of the people working on open source share is that they find it hard to let go. I’m guilty of this myself, but have, over the years, found that it’s a neccesity if sanity … Continue reading
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if it’s broke, don’t fix it
One thing that Apache does very poorly is news and announcements. I’ve written before about the problems and issues around the topic and since then nothing has changed. Chatting with Ben the other day around this subject he suggested we … Continue reading
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