As my dear colleagues Simon Johnston and James Branigan have mentioned in various blog posts, on the Jazz project that I work on, we’ve (finally) fallen in love with the web/REST story. Because of this, we spend a lot of time in technical conversations using the standard REST alphabet soup vocabulary you’d expect – HTTP, [...]
Tagged funny, people, rest, webWell, as we mentioned over on the Jazz Team Blog, my Jazz teammates and I just shipped Rational Team Concert 1.0, the first GA product built on the Jazz Platform. More on that later. Since I’ve been working on what became Rational Team Concert for the last three years, I’ve gotten into quite a groove [...]
Tagged linux, windowsOn Monday there were two notable changes at the Jazz.net web site I manage: We opened up registration to everyone (previously it had only been to Rational customers and business partners) We made the Jazz Team Blog public I wrote the first entry on the Jazz team blog, and it outlines the sorts of things [...]
I had an insight a few weeks ago that I thought was worth sharing. First some context. On the Jazz project, one of my jobs is leading the software development for our platform-level web UI stuff [1]. Erich Gamma is the overall Jazz technology lead. Twice a month we have a sync up meeting where [...]
As I mentioned on Twitter, as of this week I’ve got a new job of managing the Jazz.net community site. I’ll continue to lead the development on the framework-y pieces of the Jazz Platform web UI stack. This is going to be a fun job since we’re trying something relatively new with the Jazz Project [...]
Update: Changed title; original one sounded too presumptuous (was “what development tools do you need besides Jazz?”) Aaron Cohen of Rational asked an interesting question in the Jazz.net forum the other day. I’ve reprinted his question and my answer here verbatim, with permission from Aaron and the Jazz Project. Question (Cohen): Right now Jazz.net uses [...]
I’ll be in Beijing, China next week giving a couple of talks on the Jazz Platform and Rational Team Concert: Rational Team Concert: Agile Team Development with Jazz When? Thursday, 30 Aug 2007 (Time TBD) Where? The Rational Software Development Conference (RSDC) China, Beijing Landmark Towers What? A product-focused presentation on the Jazz Platform, the [...]
ACM Queue – A Conversation with Werner Vogels: Amazon’s CTO explains what’s behind its growth from online bookstore to e-commerce juggernaut. Werner Vogels, Amazon.com CTO, on scaling up and the relationship between dev and ops. (tags: scalability amazon wernervogels) Pat Mueller: modelled serialization Pat talking about modeled serialization, as we use on Jazz. No mention [...]
I have a three year-old son named Alexander who’s one hundred percent boy. The other night I was getting him ready for his bath. As soon as I took off his last piece of clothing, he ran away, waving his arms madly and yelling “Look everybody, I’m a naked boy!” He ran to where his [...]