Weekend reading

A few things surprised me this week. I’m putting together a talk for my colleagues about
GForge groupware, so mentions of Coefficient, a project built on Java/J2EE, caught my attention. Coefficient
led me to the JIRA issue tracker. An interesting allegation about the connection between the two came up on TheServerSide.

Some participants accused the Coefficient developers of borrowing (stealing) graphics from JIRA. It got to the point where
TSS officially distanced itself. In the end, the Coefficient project took down its homepage and replaced it with the following statement.

Site temporarily down

The coefficient demo site is currently undergoing maintenance, and is temporarily unavailable.

Some of the presentation elements for the issue tracker were borrowed (without permission) from jira. These are currently being replaced with original artwork and html. The site will be available again as soon as this task is complete.

There was another row. Old rivals JBoss Group and the Apache Software Foundation went at it again. On a happier note, people here were blogging about language-oriented programming and domain-specific languages.

• (November 18, 2004, Rubicon) Filemon — Language Oriented Programming
• (November 11, 2004, Michael Juřek’s BonzBlog) Corona Is More Than a Beer. It’s a Modeling Tool for Anything (I recommend reading the discussion.)
• (November 19, 2004, Yuhů’s Web Blog) Where I Look for Books
• (November 16, 2004, TheServerSide) Dylan Etkin — Coefficient 0.9.5 released: Open Source Collaboration Platform
• (November 15, 2004, Jablok) Pavel Kolesnikov — JBoss vs. ASF — The Legal Wrangling Continues
• (November 8, 2004, Petr Lazecký’s blog) How I Discovered Windows