Book on "the human side" of open source development.

Check out the live transcript during conference thing. That sounds great for blog-generation conference attendees.

Release notes for latest OS X version.

"The idea of a suit claiming $30m in damages for being caught snogging illicitly could probably only be taken seriously in America."

Use your bluetooth phone as a remote for your Mac. Says it only works with these, though: Ericsson t39m, t68, t610, t616 and Palm and Nokia 3650/7650 via Veta Universal.

Another "use your cellphone as a remote" app for OS X. This one works with a much wider pool of devices, including razrs.

Once again, Verizon crippling and lock in prevent me from (a.) getting more value out of my phone, and, (b.) wanting to keep paying Verizon. I would love to subscribe and stay with a telco that was open and easy to leave.

"It's like a bunch of eighth graders trying to sort out whose ball it is and who's going to play with it."

Microsoft and growth.

Good enough programming from msft.

"We're shining a light on a part of the industry that's been dormant for a couple of decades."

Check it out, he managed to get a kyak on the cover.

Becoming part of an ecosystem is a better long term bet than selling or exploiting the ecosystem.

WSDL fo analysis.

Yuh! Check out the screencast. I'll admit I had no idea about webjay being used for that...

RSS enabled version of Udell's summer listening list. Now you can subscribe to it.

Spinning up some Web 2.0, data pack-rat stuff (del.icio.us), with a dash of RIA at MSFT.

Write-up of considering doing an enterprise app in rails.

"I have been hard on Semantic Web based approaches to CMDB standards. I still have profound concerns about the learning curve and cultural issues we are going to run into on this path, but the more I think about the problem the more I am inclined to say t

"an open source cluster monitoring technology.... Ganglia has quietly gathered a ton of momentum for its cluster monitoring capabilities. Ganglia has been downloaded over 110,000 times."

"Script silos" and using open source to bring value to your platform...hrm...the old "sell the valuable stuff, give away the infrastructure part." But, what if you just want, or only know how to, build infrastructure. Tough love?

"ITIL is about fixing the people and the processes, and only then implementing pragmatic tools to help them. How such an idealistic, bloated, infeasible, technology-will-solve-all-our-problems concept as CMDB got in there is beyond me."

More on the CMDB standard work that HP, IBM, BMC, Fujitsu, and CA are said to be working on.

"[W]hy cant i get a decent performing sever for $5k."

"Nobody makes any money in open source, so I don't know how you declare that a success."