18-Dec-2005

TrickyDicky in Zenit Translations posts and article, A Tactic, a translation of Una Táctica by Julián Marías, first published in ABC on 27-Mar-2003 and now available on conoZe.com. Julián Marías died in Madrid on Thursday 15 December 2005 at the age of 91. He was one of Spain´s most important philosophers, a successor to José Ortega y Gasset. His son, Javier Marías is also a well known novelist and writes a column in the weekly, El País Semanal.

Reflection by Jonathan Schwartz about free software

jbravo in Programando... posts a link to an article by Jonathan Schwartz, Free Grows Revenue - Just Ask Your Carrier. Jonathan is president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems and posted his blog entry following the announcement that Java Enterprise System, Developer Tools and N1 Software will be available at no cost. This key quote from the article explains the philosophy of free software and why “betting against free software is like betting against gravity”:

“Because no Fortune 2000 customer on earth is going to run the heart of their enterprise with products that don't have someone's home number on the other end. And no developer or developing nation, presented with an equivalent or better free and open source product, is going to opt for a proprietary alternative.”

What is Web 2.0, according to Tim O'Reilly

jbravo in Programando... posts a link to an article by Tim O'Reilly, What Is Web 2.0. This is a great summary of the latest trends in providing computer services.

Agility and company processes

Juan Palacio in Navegapolis posts a link to the slides he presented at the “Master de Dirección de Sistemas del Instituto de Empresa”: Visión ejecutiva de procesos y prácticas para desarrollo de software (Executive vision of processes and practices for software development). This is a very interesting and useful set of slides covering the major methodologies, both tradition and formal, for the development of software, and many are easily understood without knowing any Spanish.