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For all those, who like me looked up SOA in a dictionary and still didn’t get wise, there is a litte roundup of when to care about it and when not.

Personally, I’m sold on SOA as a concept but still wait to see it in action.

In a very obscure post titled Constraints and Software Development chromatic gives a state of the union address about the Perl 6 project: far from ready, far from perfect but progressing.

Bet put in his words Sometimes you have to stop to build your tools before you can build your machines.

No surprise: OpenDarwin has shut down.

On august 16th 1993 at 13:05:37 (GMT) Ian Murdock announced the first Debian release:

Fellow Linuxers,

This is just to announce the imminent completion of a brand-new Linux release, which I’m calling the Debian Linux Release. This is a release that I have put together basically from scratch; in other words, I didn’t simply make some changes to SLS and call it a new release. I was inspired to put together this release after running SLS and generally being dissatisfied with much of it, and after much altering of SLS I decided that it would be easier to start from scratch. The base system is now virtually complete (though I’m still looking around to make sure that I grabbed the most recent sources for everything), and I’d like to get some feedback before I add the “fancy” stuff.

What is more influential for future programming trends? The multicore processors or the exponential growth of the data waiting to be processed? This post opts for the first while this post argues for the latter.

In the end, it’s all about handling more data throughput.

A nice story about database design. Too often databases are looked at as mere data dumps without any inner logic. So overcoming this preconception and including business rules into the database should lead to better designed programs.
But heed the warnings in the comments that this is only true for invariant rules (those that are always true).

The problem is there: how to connect several social networks and managing all contacts as a user?
The solution too: OpenID.

Unfortunately, it’s not likely to coming soon.

It’s sad but true. For most users, passwords are just another bureaucratic annoyance.

No, it’s a really bad idea to use unencrypted wireless communication. Especially if it’s in a public place.

And no, sensitive information should not be accessed from public networks even if it’s “encrypted”.

Linux gets the Completely Fair Scheduler of Ingo Molnár merged into its 2.6 branch before the release of 2.6.23.

Meanwhile Jeff Robertson is working on the SCHED_ULE to replace SCHED_4BSD as the standard scheduler of FreeBSD. His thoughts on the CFS can be found here.