Berkeley Bits

I’ve neither read Cooper’s books nor seen/heard him speak before today, when I found a this interview recorded at “Agile 2008″.  It’s a discussion of agile programming, why it came about, and what it’s popularity says about the converging motivations of programmers and interaction designers.  It’s long (~45 min), but I found it worthwhile.
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I did a bit of fiddling with RESTEasy yesterday.  Following the examples in the jboss source, I was able to resolve a URL via RESTEasy after about 30 min of pom and web.xml wrangling.  Not too bad.

RESTEasy pulled the following jars into my testing webapp (I chose the gradebook, since I’m familiar with its structure):

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Matterhorn must provide a mechanism to allow institutions to easily configure workflows that match their local business processes for capturing, processing, and distributing media.  I’ve been looking at some open source workflow engines, hoping that one of them will meet our needs.  This is a cursory review of the engines I’ve found to date:

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