#11: My PaaS lives in a yellow submarine

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Eldritch horrors of the Windows NT kernel, How Google Broke Gunnar’s Heart (again), Shameless self-promotion from Dave, Shawn vs. OpenShift: do we have an opening bid?, LMCO DCGS DIB DDF brought to you by the letters L, G, P, and L, a new PaaS provider, and Week 1 of the Meeting Jihad.

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• Anonymous MSFT developer admits Linux is faster than Windows
  • “Oh god, the NTFS code is a purple opium-fueled Victorian horror novel that uses global recursive locks and SEH [Structured Exception Handling] for flow control.”
• New segment: How Google makes Gunnar sad this week
  • With Hangouts, Singhal says Google had to make the difficult decision to drop the very “open” XMPP standard that it helped pioneer
• Google Reader deathwatch
  • Tiny Tiny RSS now as two click OpenShift quickstart
  • CommaFeed runs on OpenShift using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6
• If you’re a die hard Redskins fan like Gunnar: Saving Money with Open Source Solutions featuring Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins, sponsored by Red Hat and Carahsoft
• Dave on Richard Morrell’s most awesome Cloud Evangelist podcast this week talking OpenShift and DISA STAX
• Dave’s Miltary Embedded Systems article Deploy warfighter applications faster with open source Platform-as-a-Service discussing fast certification and accreditation times with OpenShift
• Autonomic Resources new OpenShift PaaS hosting offering ARC-P
• LMCO releases DDF, part of the DIB, under the LGPL
• Galapagos Syndrome
• Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint”

Cutting Room Floor

• Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles is mesmerizing
• NSA: We open sourced our cloud for security
• Little Gray Book Lectures
• A short introduction to TPMs by Matthew Garrett
• Dial 911 and your conference bridge using the right connections with CSipSimple filters
• Parkinson’s Law of Triviality aka bikeshedding

We Give Thanks

• Jan Wildeboer for the Google XMPP tip
• Gaël Chamoulaud for pointing us to Max Rydahl Andersen‘s CommaFeed post
• Matt Micene for warning us not to fall victim to Parkinson’s Law