tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14256015188524381572011-10-13T02:51:17.963-07:00Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.comBlogger971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-42738992327007273332010-03-16T11:10:00.000-07:002010-03-16T12:18:10.740-07:00

I had a great time at Qcon London last week, it really is one of the more forward thinking conferences out there for the enterprise. I gave two talks on ESBs and Enterprise Mashups so I figured I'd share the slides.ESB or not to ESBThe ESB has become synonymous with integration. While the ESB grew from the needs of enterprise integration, the landscape has changed and not every project that

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Before I get into the new stuff, here is a quick introduction. iBeans is a project I've been working on that aims to make integration for web applications much easier than it is today. It does this by focusing on simplicity and task-based integration and avoids technical jargon and new concepts wherever possible. In a nutshell iBeans offers –Easy to use integration for doing things like -

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I have been busy the last few months with the MuleSoft team working on a new project called iBeans that aims to greatly simplify integration for applications on the web. Today we're pleased to announce the 1.0-beta-8 release of iBeans. What is iBeans?iBeans is a service that simplifies integration for web applications. iBeans exposes its API as a small collection of Annotations which can be used

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Many of us have had to ponder this question. Technology selection is notoriously difficult in the enterprise space since the criteria and complexity of the problem is often not fully understood until later in the development process.There is an interesting post from ThoughtWorker Erik Dörnenburg with the unfortunate title “Making the ESB pain Visible”. Erik provides a real-world example of when

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-82709939613470102732009-06-01T07:38:00.001-07:002009-06-01T08:04:38.043-07:00

My wife and I became parents for the first time a couple of months ago. It’s been an amazing experience so far and has changed our lives beyond recognition - mostly in a good way. Part of me wants to pour all over this, but I’ll leave that to the blogging dads that have the emotional maturity to describe their feelings above and beyond “a kinda fuzzy, cuddly sensation”. Instead I thought I’d

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Today I attended the morning session of Sun’s open source day in Malta. I was pretty disappointed by the quality of the sessions. These sorts of events cost time and money, doing them badly can do more harm than good. I don’t think Sun did themselves any favours today.I thought I’d share some tips that I have picked up over the years that would have made today a better experience for the

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While I don't go to the MotleyFool for my tech news, they ran an article this week about the Gmail Fail (or #gfail on Twitter). The Fool was in praise of Gmail because even though the service was down for a few hours some interfaces such as IMAP for the iPhone kept working (though this wasn't true for me). To me the fact that Gmail went down and affected people in Europe and the US was a big blow

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Though some think SOA failed and others see it only as a partial success, this has been because of the approach to SOA not its underlying principles. SOA (or what I’d rather call Service Orientation, but that doesn’t fit our obsession with TLAs) is responsible for beginning a new evolution in the way we build software. This change is as fundamental as the shift to OO programming but essentially a

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-61192245433891846612009-02-24T01:38:00.000-08:002009-02-24T02:21:19.487-08:00

It seems the mirco-blogging platform is being used for a lot more than just posting links and banal commentary on the days events. I am an avid user of TripIt for organizing my frequent travel schedules. TripIt works by allowing users to forward their travel arrangement emails to TripIt, which will then parse the emails and create a travel schedule for you. Genius. A couple of weeks ago I booked

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It’s been an exciting couple of months for MuleSource. We began the year with 2 blowout quarters behind us. Last week we announced that Mark Burton, the former executive vice president of Sales from MySQL has joined the MuleSource board of directors. Mark brings a wealth of sales operating experience from one of the most successful open source companies to date. Mark has an excellent

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-32588209400801782282009-02-20T09:47:00.000-08:002009-02-20T10:10:51.208-08:00

I recently wrote an article that appeared in eBizQ on the topic of SOA governance. In this article, I argue that the primary reason that many pundits have declared “SOA is dead” is that the traditional “top-down” approach to SOA and governance have failed. Vendors have for too long evangelized a “big bang” re-architecture of development processes, using their tools to enforce new behaviors from

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Android is getting momentum with more phone vendors gearing up to release Android phones this year. While I don’t think Android is at par with the iPhone yet, it is a much more compelling platform for innovation. The openness of Android is a blessing and a curse. The community around Android will flourish since developers and startups will be more comfortable investing in an open platform.

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-52409075845296028192009-02-06T02:39:00.000-08:002009-02-06T06:37:05.274-08:00

Given that the definition of cloud is still somewhat fuzzy and the terminology is already spiraling (yes we have Private clouds, federated clouds and heavenly cloud cakes), I decided (for my own understanding), to map out where IaaS, PaaS and SaaS sit. The bit I was struggling with was that PaaS has multiple layers. Big thanks to Alexis for helping to organize my thoughts on this.The cloud

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-84205068916455248202009-02-06T02:01:00.000-08:002009-02-06T02:17:56.900-08:00

I’m watching the rise of the cloud with some disappointment. It was inevitable but still I hoped that we would take a more pragmatic approach to defining the cloud. The term cloud is being bounded around by almost all vendors, analysts and many technologists, but following the forums and blogs it’s clear we have very different views what the cloud means. I do find it amazing that so many

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-14144508226978789552009-01-26T02:55:00.000-08:002009-01-26T03:18:59.229-08:00

I just posted about Twitter and then just found a link from @Scobleizer on Twitter showing and interview with Stephen Fry about why he uses Twitter.Stephen Fry is not the only celebrity on Twitter, many others including Barack Obama was on twitter (until his account got hacked). Check out CelebTwitter for a full list folks you might know. I am currently following Johnathan Ross (@wossy), William

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-89435196280991824042009-01-26T02:19:00.000-08:002009-01-26T02:53:16.870-08:00

I started using Twitter around the middle of last year as an experiment to see what the fuss was about. The idea of micro-blogging seemed banal to me, I couldn't understand the popularity of Twitter so decided to give it a go. Needless to say I have been sucked in by it for the same reason most other people. It provides a platform for effortless communication. I can ask things and get real

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-78660990422788712382009-01-23T03:36:00.000-08:002009-01-23T03:53:30.341-08:00

Heineken does it again!What goes through your mind when someone says "lets go for a drink?"

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-2658927591688642042009-01-21T06:07:00.000-08:002009-01-21T06:29:37.085-08:00

I recently got my hands on a shiny new G1 phone. Despite being a little jaded by all the promises made by phone providers in the past, I was excited about getting this phone. I am a fan of the iPhone for the most part and I had high hopes because the iPhone has been out for a while now giving vendors time to replicate and improve. However, the G1 is a completely different experience. The G1 has a

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I was in the pub the other night discussing Sun’s innate ability to confuse its customers. Sun has just announced that they are releasing a version of the Sun Java System Web Server version 7 as open source software under a BSD license, which is a shining example of a confusing product strategy. For those who aren’t watching carefully, or just don’t care this server has had more name changes

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-11064936615345286642009-01-12T00:59:00.001-08:002009-01-12T01:43:14.190-08:00

Defining what constitutes a service when building service-orientated applications seems to be a common problem for developers and architects who are new to building services. The main issue seems to be the scope, i.e. what is the granularity of the service. This is actually quite difficult since the granularity of a service can vary depending on the application. The trick with any fuzzy problem

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-18143016256852125622009-01-11T10:16:00.001-08:002009-01-11T12:41:27.683-08:00

I finally got my kiteboarding stuff yesterday after a TNT mix-up between New Zealand and here. I'm proud owner of 2 Slingshot Rev 2 kites and and an Underground FLX 35 board. What I need now is a App for the iPhone and/or Android for tracking the wind. Everyone I know uses WindFinder. They have good mobile browser support and there is a great OS X Dashboard widget, but alas I haven't found any

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-26943468995454489462009-01-08T07:58:00.000-08:002009-01-08T12:10:50.449-08:00

There is an interesting post by Anne Thomas Maines from Burton Group exclaiming that SOA has gone the way of the Dodo: Once thought to be the savior of IT, SOA instead turned into a great failed experiment—at least for most organizations. SOA was supposed to reduce costs and increase agility on a massive scale. Except in rare situations, SOA has failed to deliver its promised benefits. After

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-42809369859937717172008-12-16T06:13:00.000-08:002008-12-16T06:34:26.532-08:00

Thought it couldn't be done? Apparently, Dell have had some success with their Twitter feed and report they made one million dollars through Twitter. That's not a huge amount of cash for Dell, but its a glimmer of hope that there some viable business models for Twitter and, more importantly, the consumer market might be ready for them. Looking at the followers on Twitter for Dell tweets, there

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-7188258774615888422008-12-16T02:38:00.000-08:002008-12-16T03:42:48.710-08:00

There have been numerous reports of the demise of Java ever since the language gained popularity. However with SUN's market cap at $3 billion there have been renewed speculations that because SUN is in trouble Java is too. First off, Java is a lot bigger than SUN, its out in the ethyr. Nobody controls Java (except the Java community) is its own entity. This is obviously a good thing for companies

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-61014908546351044942008-12-12T05:22:00.000-08:002008-12-12T05:42:33.933-08:00

There is a great post by Mike Cannon-Brookes of Altassian, which talks about how they came up with the stellar business strategy that has that has driven the iconic company from strength to strength. Mike raises some interesting points, which are relevant to any tech start-up or indeed any industry that deals with progressive change, which are almost all industries. I believe open source

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-36109304848720402002008-12-05T06:59:00.000-08:002008-12-05T07:08:06.482-08:00

Those who know me know I like to get out to the mountains for snowboarding whenever I can. This year I started kiteboarding since Malta has some decent conditions for it (once you get past the rocks and crowded beaches). Ever since I went heli-boarding in New Zealand a few years back I really wanted to do more with my boarding. Now I think I've found the answer, Snow kiting! Check this out:

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-67243564966763322792008-12-04T01:50:00.000-08:002008-12-04T02:36:41.469-08:00

I've been asked a lot over the last couple of months, "What is the impact of the economic downturn on open source companies?" I'm sure most people have read the slew of articles on this subject and the response is pretty consistent. Organisations are still spending money in this climate but are looking for low cost alternatives over costly proprietary solutions. The commercial open source

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-450272593213250342008-11-26T07:23:00.000-08:002008-11-26T07:57:24.167-08:00

The are number of good things happening in the Mule community at the moment. We recently started a podcast series which you can subscribe to here or get it directly in iTunes. Each episode is about 5 minutes where we talk to members of the community about all things Mule. Let me know if you have any particular topics you'd like us to cover.Next, the team behind Mule are blogging! From the

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Combine poor market conditions, SUN's stock price free-falling, Microsoft's desire to break into the enterprise market and you can imagine this acquisition actually happening. The fact is there are some compelling arguments to buy SUN at this point. SUN is obviously in a bit of trouble right now, their market cap is currently less than their annual revenue. That is free money for an acquirer

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-20102781120353774442008-11-14T11:30:00.000-08:002008-11-14T12:08:47.346-08:00

So after my foray with Ubuntu, I switched back to Mac with an all new MBP. As always with Apple, with every improvement, there are always drawbacks and the new MBP is no exception.The GoodSolid design. It feels a lot more robust. The form factor is more sleek tooSSD hard drive is lightening fast, plus I hope it will not fail me like the older SATA modelsKeyboard feels great and I like the key

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-58226709285880620272008-11-10T11:15:00.000-08:002008-11-10T12:29:36.171-08:00

Its QCon time again in San Francisco. This is one of the conferences that I really enjoy and the line up for this year is looking better than ever. On Thursday, I will be doing a panel discussion with Bob Lee, Rod Johnson and Geir Magnusson discussing “How does the Open Source trend in Java affect your design and development process”, which should be a very interesting discussion.On Friday I am

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I wish I could say switching to Ubuntu was a breeze, but in fact it left me uneasy and in need of a hug. In the end my resolved faltered and now I'm writing this post from my restored Mac. Migration to Ubuntu is not impossible but its not an easy path either, my problem was that I just don't have the time right now to make a cold turkey switch. The major barriers I hit are -No support for WebEx

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-29308075093051291012008-10-31T08:50:00.000-07:002008-10-31T09:36:05.631-07:00

We all love ascii art and what could be better than an donkey! Ken, our Director of Engineering just sent me this as a possible start-up slash screen for Mule. This one seems to be sneezing xml...

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-32108037372292237162008-10-27T13:52:00.000-07:002008-10-27T14:37:30.092-07:00

As some of you know we released Mule 2.1 Community and Enterprise last week. Tomorrow (Tuesday) I will be hosting a webinar for folks interested in getting started with Mule 2.1.The session will cover:- Introduction to new features- Creating your first Mule project- Mule IDE- Example case studyYou can register here. Hope to see you tomorrow at 9am PST, 4pm GMT.

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-53091125155774063992008-10-23T00:14:00.000-07:002008-10-23T00:27:07.700-07:00

I cannot believe it but my Mac Book Pro has just died again. I am using an older one because my other one died about a month ago thanks to a faulty graphics chip. For those counting, that is three major outages for me this year (the first happening in June). While I have been a diehard fan of the PowerBook and MacBook Pro over the years, I think its time to find a new platform. My main concerns

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After a lot of sweat and beers Mule 2.1 Community and Enterprise editions have been released. Improvements on the Community version include-Component Interceptors have been re-introduced. We thought folks could get by on Spring AOP alone but it wasn't the case. Interceptors allows developers to intercept events before and/or after a componentExpression Support. Expressions allow developers to

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Recently, Zack Urlocker posted an entry on his Infoworld blog, High volume is key for open source. He put open source users into two categories -My view is that when open source products are most successful (and most disruptive), they serve two distinct markets: a nonpaying community and a paying enterprise market.I think these groups are more like different ends of a user spectrum. I believe

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-28146964412947615122008-10-15T01:53:00.000-07:002008-10-15T06:58:12.531-07:00

We're proud to announce the recent release of Mule Galaxy 1.5 Community and Enterprise Editions. It is a huge leap forward from our 1.0 release (hence the version jump). Some of the great new features include-Enterprise Edition FeaturesRemote Workspaces: Support for attaching workspaces from remote Galaxy instances. This provides simple federation since you can deploy multiple Galaxy instances in

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-61225729993465062102008-07-03T08:35:00.000-07:002008-07-03T08:42:00.819-07:00

I’m in Paris at the moment at the OCTO conference. I had the pleasure of meeting Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++ at Bell Labs some 20-something years ago. He gave a keynote about C++, which was actually very interesting. I like to hear about the origins of technologies that stick but even more I love to hear about what the inventor would have done differently. I found it amusing that

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-59906841508205827102008-06-20T02:43:00.000-07:002008-06-23T07:52:25.012-07:00

My MacBook Pro died on me last Thursday. This is a truly devastating moment where you start questioning your back up procedure and realise in a flash how royally screwed you are without your laptop. It turns out I had an "Invalid node Structure", but it took me a while to reach this conclusion. Then I figured out that this wasn't just a data integrity issue, rather my hard drive was hosed. I got

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-24950766569282553772008-06-20T02:38:00.000-07:002008-06-20T03:11:57.703-07:00

Following on from my Apple woes earlier this week, I think my MacBook Pro hard drive got corrupted last night. The issue has manifested itself by getting stuck at the grey Apple screen at startup and I'm struggling to get anything more out of it. On start up things whir and beep but the damn thing doesn't get past the Apple-grey-screen-of-indifference. It's as if my Apple devices are colluding

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-83277459433334490702008-06-18T07:08:00.000-07:002008-06-18T07:13:50.854-07:00

In a fit of passive-aggressive rage against Apple, I decided to crack open my recently faulty Mighty Mouse. It was surprisingly hard to open because the thing had been glued shut (a $80 mouse is disposable according to Apple). After much prying and poking I got it open. This gave me sense of satisfaction that took me back to my childhood when I used to open up every gadget in the house to the

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-23672678385257745202008-06-18T05:53:00.000-07:002008-06-18T06:11:33.849-07:00

JBoss have just announced a hosted offering on Amazon EC2. This is pretty similar to Sun’s announcement at JavaOne . JBoss are offering a monthly hosting plan plus a premium on the server time you use. I’ll be interested to see how this works out for them. My feeling right now is every OS and platform vendor will be offering a similar package in the next 6-12 months and then we'll realise that

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-61730788271877249232008-06-16T09:48:00.000-07:002008-06-16T09:52:24.536-07:00

I have been a Mac convert for over 4 years and bit-by-byte Apple have snuck their way into my home, office and pocket. I’ve always loved the fact that Apple have managed to marry function and form in away that makes me oblivious to spending money with them. Unfortunately, as I buy more Apple a nasty trend is emerging: their stuff breaks… a lot. I have been willing to ignore this trend because

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-53788243102333327012008-06-11T13:43:00.000-07:002008-06-12T00:20:12.567-07:00

As some may know, we are working on version 2.0 of our open source Mule IDE based on eclipse. However, with the new schema-based configuration in Mule, IntelliJ IDEA users (including me) get some great features to help them build mule applications quicker too.In the most recent IntelliJ 7.0.4 EAP release they have fixed the XML editor so the full benefits of the Mule schemas can be realised. I'd

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-20919424375841561462008-06-10T01:33:00.000-07:002008-06-10T09:02:40.081-07:00

Last week we had to give a demonstration of all MuleSource products working together. The requirements were open-ended and it required some planning to put the demo together. Like giving presentations, giving demonstrations is a skill that you learn only by doing. Ours went very well so I figured I would share some thoughts about it.1. Understand your audienceYou need to make sure that you know

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-22205101777241002372008-05-31T03:04:00.000-07:002008-05-31T03:13:19.695-07:00

I’ve been traveling all week hitting London, Bergen, Olso and Munich before landing back in Malta last night. One of the highlights of this trip was delivering a “Mule Unplugged” session in Bergen to a group of customer and users. While I always find the Norwegians to a good bunch to be around, the notable part of the day was the location of our meeting. It was a meeting room housed in a disused

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-76201289703083407712008-05-28T15:17:00.000-07:002008-06-12T00:21:10.849-07:00

I am not convinced about twitter, actually I think it's pointless. However, some people I respect rave about it. It seems to be one of those things you need to try for yourself, so I've decided to give it a two week trial to see what I get out of it (yep, it's all about me). If you are using twitter, look me up, my ID is 'rossmason'. It would be great to hear comments from other people about what

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-91152057705101910132008-05-28T14:50:00.000-07:002008-05-28T15:14:04.766-07:00

Oops, it’s been almost 2 weeks since I last posted. I have a lot of stuff going on but not enough time to gather my thoughts. In the mean time there has been some stuff happening in the Mule community since my last post so here are the highlights.We released Mule Community 2.0.1 and 1.4.4. For those waiting for 1.4.4 was a long time coming, but we had to focus our efforts on Mule 2.0. My “Mule

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-36689919673747831592008-05-16T04:55:00.001-07:002008-05-16T04:55:59.931-07:00

There is quite a bit of buzz around OSGi at the moment with every vendor and his dog announcing support for it in one way or another. When it comes to deployment, right now everyone is doing their own thing with OSGi. On the one hand this is good since OSGi bundles are compatible with each other so the more vendors support it the more we can do around bundling components. On the other hand,

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-71532957012141490832008-05-16T04:20:00.000-07:002008-05-16T13:37:10.656-07:00

I'm a big fan of super cars in that I dream of buying something outrageously expensive one day that will cripple me every time it needs a service.I stumbled upon a company today called Koenigsegg - a small, low volume super car manufacturer - who recently announced a version of their flagship CCX car, called CCXR. Apart from being a beautiful beast it's being touted as the first green super car.

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-6930930523717756162008-05-15T13:59:00.000-07:002008-05-15T14:14:47.821-07:00

Facebook is one of the fastest growing community in the world. So much so that they can report their numbers in terms of percentages of population. They announced Chat for FaceBook about a month ago, and now Eugene Letuchy, a FaceBook engineer posted this very informative post about the technologies used and how they released the service. Their real challenge was how do you go from zero to 70

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-39622807496025743282008-05-15T12:56:00.000-07:002008-05-15T13:03:50.480-07:00

I love the guys at LShift, they're always doing something interesting. If you are board of your wee Asus eee PC and not afraid to dust off your soldering iron then here is a great guide on how to give your Asus a touch screen. There is even a video of the result!

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-43309382098636995442008-05-13T00:46:00.000-07:002008-05-14T01:24:28.852-07:00

Even though I got Fringed the first time round, I find the idea of a universal chat client on my iPhone so appealing that I couldn’t resist trying it again. For Simpsons fans I felt like Bart when he repeatedly reaches for the electrified cupcake when Lisa devises the “is my brother dumber than a hamster” test.Anyway, Fring did delete my SMS messages again. Contrary to my last post, SMS messages

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-32186319184735446002008-05-13T00:31:00.000-07:002008-05-13T00:34:01.251-07:00

Atlassian should be known for their T-shirts. They always have some good ones at JavaOne and this year was no exception. I love the irony of Hani wearing this since he is on the JCP committee (unfortunately his is obscured by a feather boa).

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-91005472670094015142008-05-12T15:09:00.000-07:002008-05-13T03:45:09.192-07:00

By far the best part of JavaOne is the drinking. This is where all the Java kids converge and proceed to decimate their precious brain cells with copious amounts of booze. The only way to describe a good night out is with photos. My wife came out on the last night (though reluctant to join a group a guys “geeking out”) She was diligent enough to take some photos from the the Tangosol /

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-1278106521560125322008-05-12T14:03:00.000-07:002008-05-12T23:48:42.568-07:00

Walking away from JavaOne this year I don’t feel I learned about much new but there was definitely some good stuff around. JavaFX was high on the agenda, but since this was the hot topic of last year it didn’t create the buzz they had hoped for. Still the had some nice demos even if the sessions themselves were awful. There was some focus on cross language support in JDK 1.7, which is good new

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-62385606185232479392008-05-10T15:58:00.000-07:002008-05-10T16:09:28.210-07:00

I just got back from JavaOne and I had a great time (post to follow). A big part of that enjoyment was meeting an array of folks using or looking to use Mule and Galaxy for projects large and small. Of course we had our fair share of swag-baggers who were particularly enamoured by our squeezy Mules and "Don't be a dumb-ass" T-shirts. Though one of our visitors went one step further and made his

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-25500113447532746432008-05-02T17:27:00.000-07:002008-05-10T12:37:21.961-07:00

I wanted to send a quick note to those of you who will be in the San Francisco Bay Area next week, that MuleSource Architect Dan Diephouse and I will both be at JavaOne for the duration of the conference, from May 6 to May 9. If you are in the area, please come by and see us at the MuleSource booth, located in the SOA Pavilion. We all know the best part of JavaOne is the drinking (I still have

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-3139780744117694072008-04-28T23:42:00.000-07:002008-04-29T00:21:32.601-07:00

We’re currently taking Google Apps for a test drive and Dave had some fun trying out the Salesforce.com integration over the weekend. I was really surprised to hear today that when he filed support issues with Salesforce.com he got no response until this morning. Not even an automated reply! I find it very strange that a company that sells itself on being there when you need it wouldn’t have

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-91095901640414729902008-04-18T09:40:00.000-07:002008-04-18T09:48:47.906-07:00

With Amazon Web Services gaining a lot of attention and the recent announcement of Google’s AppEngine it begs the question “What is SUN doing?”.SUN has all the right ingredients to make a PaaS (Platform as a Service) play; They know hardwarethey have a great operating system, Solaristhey have the Java platform and mindshareThey even have a great database offering, MySQLGiven all this plus the

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-61899753500271104022008-04-16T12:43:00.000-07:002008-04-16T16:22:56.615-07:00

Fring deleted all my SMS messages. I know it was Fring because the same thing happened to Dan. Oh why doesn't iTunes back up my messages?UPDATE: I can no longer receive SMS messages on my phone! Sadly, I think it's time to scrub Fring off my phone for now.

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-64653208022326046632008-04-16T08:04:00.000-07:002008-04-16T08:12:59.178-07:00

Finally, Fring have released a VoIP/Chat application for the iPhone. You can connect using your Skype, GTalk, Twitter, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and generic SIP provider accounts and start talking. It even supports Skype Out. Fringing cool! We had some problems testing Skype voice yesterday but it's still a beta.

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-35448239097972136092008-04-14T06:00:00.000-07:002008-04-17T08:06:25.032-07:00

I must confess I didn’t fully get REST until recently. Given the amount of interest around REST most people understand the basics:It’s an architectural style. It’s not a technology itself, rather a set of well defined guidelines or rules for building scalable applications utilizing HTTP.HTTP verbs such as POST, GET, PUT and DELETE are used to communicate desired behaviour to the server.Each of

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-78189794233783760682008-04-13T23:35:00.000-07:002008-04-14T21:52:27.496-07:00

Amazon Web Services (AWS) amazes me. Not only have they built a fantastic platform but also it seems such an odd direction for a book and DVD company. I have often mused about how Amazon went in this direction by imagining the board meeting when the suggestion came up:Jeff: We’re doing great. Book sales are through the roof, our recently launched DVD service is taking off and we even have a

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-7887443499446561042008-04-13T22:57:00.000-07:002008-04-15T09:46:06.095-07:00

Every now and again I get into a discussions about why I decided not to adopt JBI for Mule. Admittedly, the topic has cropped up less and less over the past 2 years since people realize that just because something is called a standard doesn’t make it the best solution. However, now and again there is a die-hard fan that is there to push JBI as the only way. It’s been a few years since I read

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-41574459421040110792008-04-08T23:40:00.000-07:002008-04-08T08:48:48.296-07:00

There has been a lot of talk about OSGi in the last 18 months with many vendors and open source projects adopting OSGi at various levels. For many, OSGi is a new technology that is sometimes difficult to grasp since its applicability is not always obvious.OSGi stands for Open Services Gateway Initiative and was born out of efforts from the embedded Java world some 8-9 years ago. In a nutshell

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-82888225981168435382008-04-07T06:00:00.000-07:002008-04-07T10:17:39.193-07:00

At the recent OSGR event (yes, that’s Open Source Goat Rodeo), Zack from MySQL gave everyone a pair MySQL boxer shorts. These shorts, much like open source software, provided most of the functionality you’d want; elasticated waist, 2 leg holes, privacy. However, I noticed that there was no hole, you know… for frontal access. I was told that the hole was available in the enterprise version,

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-78156896778044363162008-04-06T22:46:00.000-07:002008-04-06T23:20:32.469-07:00

This is how conferences should be done. No AV problems, no PowerPoint slides to prepare, no panels, campfires or BOFs, and no sitting on corridor floors huddled around the power supply.Instead, this event was held in the mountains of Salt Lake City, with the focus on dialog and skiing. We were a small group with folks with big presence in the Open Source and greater business community. The

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-23710522503226681662008-04-04T22:23:00.000-07:002008-04-04T22:33:24.418-07:00

I just found some notes I made when I first got my iPhone for setting things like call forwarding and the voicemail number. I figured they may well be useful to others.Setting up call divert in Europe:DIAL: *61* 00 CALLFor example this will set up call divert to voice mail when the phone is off, busy or unanswered:*61* 00356909 CALL*62* 00356909 CALL*67* 00356909 CALLYou may also have like with

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-73738696729323465912008-04-04T21:53:00.000-07:002008-04-04T22:16:41.901-07:00

We held our second MuleCon in San Francisco and what an event! We had around 250 attendees from all over the globe with Norway, Turkey, Japan, UK, Argentina and Sweden, Kula Lumpur and Australia represented (that I can think of). Like last year we had customers presenting their experiences with Mule and MuleSource, technology partners talking about complimentary products and of course the

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-32283730251177348232008-04-01T11:09:00.000-07:002008-04-02T14:31:05.196-07:00

MuleCon has started and going very well so far, we have a great turn out of over 200 people. Rory de la Paz from Biogen is giving a presentation about his experiences with Mule and one of his slides is a pretty funny comparison of Mule and WLI. He uses the "sideways bike" versus the "single-speed bike" analogy. Before I go on you need to see the Sideways bike in motion.Here the Sideways bike is

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-17984703563379229872008-03-31T00:14:00.000-07:002008-03-31T00:19:33.763-07:00

There is a lot of noise right now around DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) and the notion that people can easily build new languages that are centered around a specific vocabulary that makes sense for the problem domain. While I think we’ll probably be in DSL hell in about 2 years where there thousands of new languages for doing everything and nothing, there is one DSL I would like to propose for

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-39110055932192883392008-03-30T11:51:00.000-07:002008-03-30T11:54:58.419-07:00

For those who missed our talk on Integration and SOA last week, the recorded session is now available here.

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-24181166121180246122008-03-30T11:44:00.000-07:002008-03-30T11:49:01.029-07:00

I didn’t get to see any sessions on day two of TSSJS partly because I gave two sessions myself and I was catching up with a bunch of people. First I gave my Building an ESB talk again since it seemed to be popular. I also made a realization that may be perfectly obvious to most people. When developers talk about their projects or areas of interest they almost always talk about what you can do

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-83593831263524170732008-03-26T21:10:00.000-07:002008-03-26T21:16:23.530-07:00

My talk about Building an ESB Solution using Mule seemed to go down really well. I had a packed room and the TSS folks have asked me to do the talk again tomorrow at 11:45, come along if you missed it.I promised today's listeners that I'd post the code and slides here, but since I'm making some changes to the presentation before tomorrow I figured I'd post everything afterwards.Also, I've been

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-991327744389493812008-03-26T21:05:00.000-07:002008-03-26T21:10:28.771-07:00

Geert Bevin provided a fast-paced introduction to some of the cool concepts in Terracotta, Rife continuations, GWT and Android. Terracotta provides a nice way of overlaying state distribution to your Java classes using bytecode manipulation. I can see this working really well for smaller app but becoming pretty complex for larger applications. The section on Rife continuations was interesting

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-537763789899274952008-03-26T20:58:00.000-07:002008-03-26T22:42:25.370-07:00

As you can guess this talk kicks off with the benefits of WS and REST. Early on Brian Sletten states that an ESB (or rather Message bus) should not be used before your architecture is ready for it. I couldn’t agree more. He then goes on to discuss other approaches. First is a “Pipe and Filters” approach to integration. I do see this style of topology being used with many Mule users.Second, he

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-15011428801116248562008-03-26T20:57:00.001-07:002008-03-26T20:58:52.454-07:00

I’ve always thought that Esper is a great project, and being in the SOA/ESB space Esper has a lot of applicability for the systems our company works on. Thomas did his best to describe what you can do with Esper, but it’s pretty tricky to describe useful Esper queries effectively in PowerPoint slide. The kind of stuff you can do with Esper is awesome and Thomas Bernhardt has done a great job on

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-17253578846580675092008-03-26T18:36:00.001-07:002008-03-26T21:22:21.479-07:00

I intend to blog about the session I sit in on at TSS, but I had such a nightmare getting to Vegas that I think its worthy of a mention. It was one of those days when everything went wrong. First I got our flight time wrong and an hour before the flight was to leave my wife and I were still packing. I called the airline who told me that I was in luck because my flight was canceled! - I liked the

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-76813888197552460682008-03-25T16:45:00.000-07:002008-03-25T16:59:34.435-07:00

I have just arrived in Las Vegas for TSSJS. I think you either love or hate this place, and I'm definitely in the love camp. Its just so over the top, bizarre and tacky that you just have to enjoy it for the experience. Plus I don't mind a game of Craps every once in a while.I am giving a talk tomorrow on called Building an ESB using Mule. This is very different structure to my previous talks,

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-75755613860449030272008-03-17T01:33:00.000-07:002008-03-17T01:39:42.041-07:00

I'm giving an online Webinar about SOA and Integration on Tuesday, March 18 (tomorrow), at 9 AM Pacific Time (17:00 GMT), I will be hosting a session entitled “Integration: SOA’s Dirty Little Secret.” During this hour-long talk, I’ll discuss the reality of integration in any SOA initiative, including integration planning and implementation checklists, some best practices around Web Services,

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-82424035565710045072008-03-12T07:01:00.000-07:002008-03-15T13:42:56.899-07:00

I was finally settling down to prepare my slides for my upcoming integration webinar when BOOM! Our whole apartment block shook violently. It felt like an earth quake. I heard some nearby cries outside our door and thought there must have been an explosion in the building. Then I caught a glimpse of a bellowing mushroom cloud out of our window. It was a huge blast and seemed to be close to our

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-76423830362872792852008-03-12T03:44:00.000-07:002008-03-12T04:19:56.352-07:00

David Dossot as been a long time community member and a great supporter of Mule. When we launched MuleForge back in September, he was one of the first to start a project - the JCR Connector for Mule. In a nutshell, it allows you to configure endpoints in Mule for listening for new content written to a repository, writing content to a repository and running queries on a repository. David has also

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-52664938121453808722008-03-12T03:25:00.000-07:002008-03-12T04:23:09.449-07:00

With all the commotion around the US Presidential elections this year, some of you may have missed that Malta were having their General elections. Shame on you if you missed it. What I didn't realise is that Malta turns in to crazy-ville around this time. In fact the day after the official announcement (Nationalists remain in power) the whole island shuts down and parties. Apparently it was

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-64095000006616619842008-03-09T12:09:00.000-07:002008-03-12T04:15:34.639-07:00

I've been out snowboarding for just under a week at Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. It was a really good to be up in the mountains for a few days.It was an all-out boys trip with 10 guys from Malta, Poland, US and me holding the the British flag. We got off to a bad start when our plane got diverted (RyanAir) to an airport further out of our way. Thankfully, we found some crazy Italian taxi drivers

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-23529537787683616142008-02-28T00:24:00.000-08:002008-02-28T00:47:14.205-08:00

For those of you who Ride the Mule or are thinking you might want to, We are holding our 2nd MuleCon in San Francisco. It's a two day event starting on the 1st April (a.k.a. April Mules Day :) ). Today is the last day for early bird registration.We already have registrants flying in from Japan, Europe (Norway is the furthest so far) and the US. It's a great chance to hear about what we have in

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-68092391245487775692008-02-27T14:51:00.000-08:002008-02-27T15:01:58.685-08:00

Dan and Andrew P. have done a great job on the latest release of Galaxy. For those who don’t know Galaxy is a SOA Governance platform and Registry. Up till now we’ve been focusing on Artifact management and design time governance, but we’ll be shifting gears now the core API is looking solid. In the latest release –Improved Atom Publishing Protocol API. You can now create/delete workspaces,

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-31210898288284723302008-02-27T14:26:00.000-08:002008-03-15T13:46:34.463-07:00

This has been a long time coming. I go through this with every phone; I buy it, I am blinded by its flashy gizmos then I start picking at it. The difference with the iPhone is that it’s taken me about 6 months to get to the point where I feel compelled to complain, whereas it usually takes about 6 days. If I’m honest, I’ve been fully aware of the limitations of the iPhone from day one, but I

Ross Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16687524504324116768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1425601518852438157.post-27819538627261588842008-02-19T10:10:00.000-08:002008-02-19T15:20:59.386-08:00

CohesiveFT have been busy building out an online infrastructure for building applications for virtualized environments. What does that mean? Well, you can jump on their Elastic Server On demand (ESOD) site and build an application from a growing list of components, then build a virtual image that can either be directly deployed to EC2 (very cool) or you can download the image and run it on

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If like me you travel a lot, you'll find TripIt.com invaluable. It's so simple, all you do is send your flight reservation details emails, hotel confirmation emails, car reservation emails, etc to plans@tripit.com and they create a full itinerary for you. You don't even need to sign up since you get an account created automatically based on you email address. Then you will be emailed back saying

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I've been meaning to take RabbitMQ for a drive. It's message broker that has been built around the AMQP standard. Oh, and its written in Erlang. I've been wanting to try it out for quite a while, but I always considered the extra hop of setting up Erlang a barrier that I'd need to set aside a chunk of time to get over. Well I'm happy to say I was wrong, and the set up is a breeze (thanks to some

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Mary J Foley at ZDNet recently announced Microsoft's plans for a new programming language 'D' that will be a key component to Microsoft's Olso technology strategy. She writes:D will be a declarative language aimed at non-developers, and will be based on eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML), sources, who asked not to be named, said.I cringe when I hear about solutions for difficult

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Prior to founding MuleSource, Ross Mason was Chief Executive Officer of SymphonySoft Limited, an EU-based company providing services and support for large-scale integration projects.Previously, Mason was Lead Architect for RaboBank and played a key role in developing one of the first large-scale ESB implementations in 2002. Mason has also had architect roles with NatWest Bank and Suisse Re.Mason

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First steps to SOA"What does it really mean to introduce SOA into an organization? Ross Mason, CTO and co-founder of MuleSource, explains how an enterprise service bus allows different applications to communicate with each other."Source: ZD Net featured videoMule 2 Tech BriefA Brief discussion of the new Mule 2 platform and it features.Source: TheServerSideMule 2 and Beyond - JavaPolis"This tech

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Like a rash, Twitter has really grown on me. Its one of those things you need to try before you understand it. If you are on Twitter follow me, otherwise go and sign up for it.

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Upcoming talksNone at the moment, my wife has baby on the way!Past talksQCon, SanFrancisco. November 19th-21st.How does the Open Source trend in Java affect your design and development processA panel discussion with Geir Magnusson, Bob Lee, Ross Mason and Rod JohnsonBringing the enterprise to the web with MuleCo-hosting with Dan DiephouseTODO

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