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Darrel Miller: Was the idea to call the REST workshop WS-REST designed to be as inflammatory as possible? http://www.ws-rest.org [via Don Box]

Oh, cool, a conference with a topic I’m interested in in my back yard!

It’s a shame it is too late to submit a talk proposal.  Guess I’ll get to enjoy it as a civilian.

Just noticed a new addition to Ubuntu: PowerNap.  I have a server that I use to offload running some tests from my primary development machine.  I start jobs via a web interface, and they retrieve the sources to test using git and svn.  The net result is that there is no keyboard or mouse activity, not even ssh.

PowerNap’s value proposition is that it monitors processes, looking for arbitrary regular expressions, and considers the presence of matching processes as activity.  Simple and effective.

PowerWake determines and caches MAC addresses, simplifying wakeup.

Monthly, the Apache Software Foundation has a board meeting, and the work flow that leads up to this is that a rotating selection of Officers prepare written reports and either commit them directly to subversion or email them to a mailing list where they will be picked up. 
It is an unfortunate truth that a number of these officers are still using proprietary operating systems and tools.  The end result is predictable: a file which contains a number of encoding errors.

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Joe Armstrong: After a small amount of experimentation I was able to make Erlang talk to a web page using pure asynchronous message passing.  I think this means the death of the following technologies:

• comet
• long-poll
• AJAX
• keep-alive sockets

I see the appeal for a single node Erlang or Eventmachine or node.js server.  (Can sockets be passed between servers?)

I’m less clear about how this could work with request/response servers like PHP or Rails.  Event loops on the server are not typically application patterns for applications using such frameworks — shared nothing is more of the norm.

Damien Katz: I, Jan, and Chris are building a startup around Apache CouchDB

CouchDB crossed my radar just over two years ago, a few months later, Damien was at IBM, it entered incubation at the ASF a little over a month later.  It has been an exciting project to watch.

My role was simply as a catalyst at a few junctures.

Lately I’ve been moving around more between my netbook, laptop, and desktops, so having any single machine being designated as my mail portal at the moment often means that I often don’t have convenient access to my email.

I figured it was time to investigate running my own mail server.

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