Apache is 10 years old

Yesterday was the 10th Anniversary of the signing of Apache's incorporation papers. Congratulations to everyone who has helped make Apache what it is!

Three SOA Case Studies

I presented about three SOA case studies to the QCon London 2009 conference yesterday. Here are the slides.

Three SOA Case Studies

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Google Reader is adding spam to my blog!

I've been contacted by two people saying my blog has been hacked. If you subscribe directly to this blog it looks like this:I've deliberately scaled it down and cropped it because its not exactly salubrious.

Basically if you look at my blog through Google Reader you get a bunch of YouTube videos of women oil wrestling. I've tried to contact the Google Reader team through the forums but no reply so far. I have checked my feed through Firefox, FeedReader and by directly analyzing the Atom and RSS and I can't see what is going on. I've come to the conclusion its a bug in Google Reader and I'm hoping they'll fix it soon. (If you can see that it is my fault please let me know as I'd love to fix it.)

Carbon 1.5.1 and Feature Packs

On Friday, we published the updated Carbon 1.5.1 based products:

WSO2 ESB 2.0.1
WSO2 WSAS 3.0.1
WSO2 Business Process Server 1.0.1
WSo2 Registry 2.0.1

Download here: http://wso2.org/downloads

In addition, the Carbon Core is now available. This isn't much use on its own, but this allows you to add other feature packs in as necessary. You can also add the feature packs into the main products.

So far there is just the one feature pack: Service Mediation. The others will be available this week. In the meantime, check out this article and this screencast.

Weekend metalworking

I spent the weekend at West Dean college hitting metal. And rivetting, welding, annealing, raising, drilling and lots more. Highly recommended!

And the results?

A spot welded steel bowl with copper rivets

Abstract form in beaten, rivetted copper

Large segmented copper shell