Vacation? What's that?

In contrast to my winter vacation of two years ago, this year's 'vacation' has been largely unfulfilling. Rather, I really haven't had any time to relax as I've been just swamped with stuff.

"May we live in interesting times." is rumored to be a Chinese curse. I know what they mean.

However, a number of things of interest have happened recently that I thought would be good to highlight.

Our ICSE'07 submission was rejected, but we received a number of excellent and helpful reviews (thanks to our anonymous reviewers!). Since this is our first attempt at documenting the ideas we're playing with, we're not surprised that it got rejected (disappointed sure). None of the feedback was critical of the approach - but rather some of the details behind it (partly, limited to 10 pages makes this a really tough call to decide what goes in and what does not). Regardless, we've decided to publish what we submitted as a tech report and reorganize and cogitate some on the feedback to make it that much stronger and coherent of a story. You can read Harmonizing Architectural Dissonance in REST-based Architectures. It's meant to capture our thoughts as they were in August and September (when we wrote it) - but there are substantial differences and expansions since then. For those, you'll have to wait for the next talk or paper we give.

Google Code finally launched its download service (yay), so Serf now has an official release - Serf 0.1.0. Combined with trunk of Subversion (i.e. 1.5+), this is now the client that I use everyday with Subversion. Woo-hoo. A few downstream packagers are starting to pick it up - so serf may come to an OS near you. And, we're still needing to finish the discussion about switching Subversion's default to 1.5 (which we more or less agreed to do at the Subversion Summit in October).

Lastly, Apache's main web server ran out of disk space this morning (and who was it that wanted backups of Maven? boo-hiss). So, today, Paul (on his birthday! wow! he volunteered though on IRC, so...well...), finally got mod_mbox moved over to the T2000 we've been prepping for the last 3 months. Yay. Apache Mailing Lists archives are now moved and on a spiffy 32-way Niagara box. Thanks Paul! Woo-hoo! (We've got some core dumps we need to fix up, but getting it off that lousy Itanium is very very worth it.)

And, there's a big piece of news coming soon. Stay tuned.

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