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Daily Links 12-10-07

By Mark on Dec 10, 2007 in Links

This is funny, Jeff Barr, Amazon’s Web Services Evanagelist couldn’t recall his college GPA and Google turned him down. I’ll take someone’s verifiable work success over a cum laude Ivy leaguer with none any day.

Tags: Google, Jeff Barr, Amazon, employment

LinkedIn Updates

LinkedIn launches developer’s platform trying to stay ahead of FaceBook. Personally, I am a bigger fan of LinkedIn for business and am impressed by Plaxo Pulse. I still don’t grasp Facebook’s usefulness as a business tool.

Tags: LinkedIn, Plaxo Pulse, FaceBook

Comparing �open source� projects? Start by asking why does the project exist

Lots of good stuff, interesting to me is the relatively small amount of outside code that makes it into OpenSolaris.

"I can confidently state there is no outside development of any significant substance directing the architecture of Solaris / OpenSolaris different from what Sun the company would have done anyway. Two �community developers� (Juergen Keil and Richard Lowe) account for nearly 40% of all accepted contributions - just two developers. Only 84 developers have contributed anything at all - ever (including small typos fixes, accepted or not). Outside contributors must have a Sun employee review, approve and integrate their code. And after two years, it seems some are starting to just realize, this Sun controlled model may not be the best approach."

(via Matt)

Tags: OpenSolaris, Mike Dolan, IBM

OpenID Becomes Enterprising

Glynn has a good article on OpenID and its commercial uses.

Tags: Identity, OpenID, Single Sign-On

Digging Deeper: Systems Management

Very interesting post, I think the thing that hits home is that there is the desire to combine the following into a single application. That’s one of the goals of Zenoss.

Monitoring makes us omni-present.It allows us to be constantly aware of change in our environment to which we should be aware and to record data points over a period of time to allow for trend analysis, capacity planning, and fault isolation down the road. Thus, we can divide monitoring applications into 2 categories: