Chilling in Vegas at ApacheCon. It’s doubly fun because Mel is in town for Comdex ;)
We’re here working on the FLOSS research project at Syracuse. We’re interested in what makes development teams effective but that means understanding what a successful project actually is.
It’s a gas seeing open source teams, usually working via email and IRC, working together around tables—-heady stuff for people interested in how co-ordination happens. It is happening, but how? And how to do it well? All good fun.
Lots of apple laptops—-after all Apache runs on many platforms and isn’t confined to Linux at all. Hoping to find someone to help me hack on THEMP at some point. Someone has to know how to edit the damn PDF document information fields!
Posted by james at November 16, 2003 09:03 PM | TrackBackYou should talk to the guys who are starting up the Geronimo project. It is going to be a new top level project at apache that is basically being built by developers from 4 or 5 other very large projects.
Funny that you should mention that. I spent most of the day with these guys who have a big table in the middle of the room and buckets of hacking going on.
Chatted with James Stratton who is working on that project, but also on somehting cool called “Groovy” which is bring the ease of perl/python/ruby scripting to produce fully Java code. I think it will be big.
$c = (1, 2, 3, “dog”)
would produce a Java.lang.collection of 4 objects, three Integers and one String …
More on this tomorrow.
Now back to the Rugby!