The Random Musings

Wink – [Homepage]
Tutorial and presentation software that is being included in OpenSuSE 10.2
(tags: tutorial presentation linux)

Getting Real
The site for the “Getting Real” book.
(tags: book 37signals)

Great news!  I am going on a Certified Scrum Master course in Bedford, MA on November 8/9.  Even more exhilarating is that the course is being taught by Ken Schwaber himself (the co-creator of Scrum).
Prerequisites for the course are to read the book that he authored, Agile Project Management with Scrum (which I already have), [...]

InfoQ: Presentation: The Role of the Enterprise Service Bus
A No fluff just stuff presentation on ESB’s.
(tags: mule jbi esb presentation)

bbum’s weblog-o-mat » Blog Archive » HOWTO: Adding an RSS feed to a Subversion Server
A howto for setting up an RSS feed on a Subversion server.
(tags: subversion rssfeed)

I heard a podcast where someone was described as a “slut” rather than a “whore” because they chose to jump into interactions with the latest glitzy software for free, rather than because some paid them to do it.
I feel like the equivalent of the RSS Reader Slut!  Jumping from product to product on the latest [...]

Home – Enterprise Integration Patterns
Great resource of patterns to apply to SOA and ESB solutions.
(tags: ESB patterns enterprise practices)

I have been using Smart for my package management on OpenSuSE 10.1 for a while now.  The primary reason was that the redcarpet or rug offering had too many issues in my environment.
Anyway, I recently found smart –shell the other day, and what a find.  This allows you to stack up a load of installs, [...]

Prodigen | Completing Identity Management
A company I have never heard of providing a role engineering solution, and possibly some other aspects of Identity management.
(tags: identity roles idm attestation)

KYOURadio – Open Source Radio
Seems to be some kind of streaming service with different stations and genres. Also allows you to register your own podcast to the [...]

Skype for Linux goes public
Article on the latest beta for the Linux version of Skype. I hope that it contains some way to perform recording of calls.
(tags: skype lynux voip)

Replacing my home backup server with Amazon’s S3 (by Jeremy Zawodny)
Article comparing the cost of providing a storage server at home, versus using Amazon’s S3 [...]