book: “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt...

Doris Kearns Goodwin On Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Era | On Point with Tom Ashbrook:
"...historian is telling the story of Teddy Roosevelt and the transformation of the Progressive Era."



Bully pulpit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 
A bully pulpit is a position sufficiently conspicuous to provide an opportunity to speak out and be listened to.
This term was coined by President Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to the White House as a "bully pulpit", by which he meant a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda. 

Roosevelt famously used the word bully as an adjective meaning "superb" or "wonderful", a more common usage in his time than it is today. (Another expression which survives from this era is "bully for you", synonymous with "good for you".)

a bully pulpit - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

"an important job or position that someone can use to persuade other people to accept their ideas"

i.e. "The presidency is a wonderful bully pulpit to convince the country of the need for a balanced budget."

Dart 1.0 released

Dart 1.0 interview with Lars Bak and Kasper Lund at Devoxx 2013 - YouTube:

Dart 1.0 Released - Slashdot

release of Dart SDK 1.0, a cross-browser, open source toolkit for structured web applications. The Dart SDK 1.0 includes everything you need to write structured web applications: a simple yet powerful programming language, robust tools, and comprehensive core libraries. The language has been somewhat controversial, but Google continues to move it forward."

Chromium Blog: Dart 1.0: A stable SDK for structured web apps

ServiceStack goes commecial

Demis Bellot @ Google+:
"To ensure its long-term sustainability, ServiceStack will transition to an annually-supported paid product similar to Xamarin's products. Starting from the next major v4.0 release of ServiceStack.* on NuGet, which will be the first commercial-only binary distribution (with an exception for OSS projects and a "free-tier" for small projects)."

Home · ServiceStack/ServiceStack Wiki · GitHub  (V3)

They also changed the logo, from green leaf to (shark?) fin. 

Pricing Snapshot of 12/4/2013 9:56:21 PM

And while I was checking the price, got and error 

"Error Code: NullReferenceException"

at least the error was available in various formats: json xml csv jsv  :)

$199 - $1899 / developer / year... read "Enterprise" price.
It could make sense when developer productivity is measured...

(free open source) ASP.NET Web API is starting to look more interesting... 

Spanner - Google's Distributed Database

Spanner - Google's Distributed Database: @ InfoQ
"Spanner relies on GPS and atomic clocks to provide two of its most innovative features: Lock-free strong (current) reads and global snapshots that are consistent with external events."

Spanner (database) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Google Research Publication: Spanner

no async, to avoid complexity.
evolution of Big Table
ACID

Interesting concept of paxos and requirement for monotonic time

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Map-Reduce concept was revealed in a similar paper by Google engineers,
and soon after Hadoop was created, and whole BigData (and NoSQL) movement...
Are the time-sync concepts also ready to become open-source tool / feature?