James Turner

James Turner

Biography

James Turner, contributing editor for oreilly.com, is a freelance journalist who has written for publications as diverse as the Christian Science Monitor, Processor, Linuxworld Magazine, Developer.com and WIRED Magazine. In addition to his shorter writing, he has also written two books on Java Web Development ("MySQL & JSP Web Applications" and "Struts: Kick Start"). He is the former Senior Editor of LinuxWorld Magazine and Senior Contributing Editor for Linux Today. He has also spent more than 25 years as a software engineer and system administrator, and currently works as a Senior Software Engineer for a company in the Boston area. His past employers have included the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Xerox AI Systems, Solbourne Computer, Interleaf, the Christian Science Monitor and contracting positions at BBN and Fidelity Investments. He is a committer on the Apache Jakarta Struts project and served as the Struts 1.1B3 release manager. He lives in a 200 year old Colonial farmhouse in Derry, NH along with his wife and son. He is an open water diver and instrument-rated private pilot, as well as an avid science fiction fan.

Blog

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The Best and the Worst Tech of the Decade, December 17 2009
Innovation from the Edges: PayPal Taps the Developer Community to Build Next-Gen Payment Apps, December 14 2009
Steve Souders: Making Web Sites Faster in the Web 2.0 Age, November 30 2009
The iPhone: Tricorder Version 1.0?, November 17 2009
The Minds Behind Some of the Most Addictive Games Around, November 06 2009
Why Google and Bing's Twitter Announcement is Big News, October 21 2009
Life With TED - Micromanaging Your Carbon Footprint, October 19 2009
David Hoover's Top 5 Tips for Apprentices, September 29 2009
Snow Leopard, 10 Days In - No Major Problems, But No Rush to Upgrade Either, September 08 2009
Augmenting Reality with the iPhone - Acrossair's Nearest Tube will be one of the first "Terminator Vision" applications, August 27 2009
How NPR is Embracing Open Source and Open APIs, July 17 2009
Making Government Transparent Using R, July 14 2009
Sequencing a Genome a Week, July 13 2009
Jono Bacon on the Value of Good Communities, July 09 2009
Open Source is Infiltrating the Enterprise, July 07 2009
Patrick Collison Puts the Squeeze on Wikipedia, July 02 2009
Want A Job? Learn SharePoint, Says Gary Blatt, June 29 2009
Walking the Censorship Tightrope with Google's Marissa Mayer, June 15 2009
John Viega Talks About Beautiful Security, June 10 2009
The iPhone 3Gs Debacle Switches into High Gear, June 09 2009
Google Squared is an Exponential Improvement in Search, June 04 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for June 1st, 2009, June 03 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for May 25th, 2009, May 26 2009
Velocity Preview - The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number at Microsoft, May 18 2009
Google Engineering Explains Microformat Support in Searches, May 12 2009
Velocity Preview - Keeping Twitter Tweeting, May 07 2009
Tim O'Reilly - Why Twitter Matters for News, May 07 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for May 4th, 2009, May 06 2009
Apple Learns The Perils of Gatekeeping, May 04 2009
What I Did Over My Winter Vacation, May 02 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for April 20th, 2009, April 22 2009
Where 2.0 Preview - DARPA's TIGR Project Helps Platoons Stay Alive, April 21 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for April 13th, 2009, April 15 2009
Where 2.0 Preview - Building the SENSEable City, April 15 2009
Where 2.0 Preview - Tyler Bell on Yahoo's Open Location Project, April 14 2009
Where 2.0 Preview - Pelago's Jeff Holden on Creating Stories Out of Your Life, April 10 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for April 6th, 2009, April 08 2009
Where 2.0 Preview: Eric Gunderson of Development Seed on the Promise of Open Data, April 03 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for March 29th, 2009, April 01 2009
"Mastering cat", the newest O'Reilly title, April 01 2009
Brian Aker: What Would an IBM Buyout of Sun Mean for MySQL?, March 26 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for March 23rd, 2009, March 25 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for March 16th, 2009, March 18 2009
Microsoft and Science Commons Team Up To Add Semantic Content to Online Science, March 11 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for March 9nd, 2009, March 10 2009
Kindle for the iPhone, a first quick look, March 04 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for March 2nd, 2009, March 04 2009
Marc Bohlen: Finding the Intersection of Art and Technology, March 03 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for February 23rd, 2009, February 25 2009
An Open Letter to Roy Blunt, Jr. on the Occasion of Him Speaking Like an Idiot, February 25 2009
ETech Preview: On The Front Lines of the Next Pandemic, February 23 2009
ETech Preview: Science Commons Wants Data to Be Free, February 19 2009
ETech Preview: Creating Biological Legos, February 17 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for February 16th, 2009, February 17 2009
ETech Preview: Inside Factory China, February 12 2009
ETech Preview: Why LCD is the Cool New Technology All Over Again, February 11 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for February 9th, 2009, February 11 2009
ETech Preview: Living the Technomadic Life, February 09 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for February 2nd, 2009, February 04 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for January 26, 2009, January 28 2009
The Best Webcomics You're Not Reading, January 22 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for January 19, 2009, January 21 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for January 12, 2008, January 14 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for Jan 5th, 2009, January 06 2009
My 2009 Resolution: Learn IPv6, January 04 2009
O'Reilly Week in Review for December 22, 2008, December 23 2008
O'Reilly Week in Review for Dec 15th, 2008, December 17 2008
Engineering Tornado Intercepts - Dr. Joshua Wurman Discusses Mobile Doppler Radars, December 15 2008
A Certain Sense of Powerlessness, December 14 2008
The Best of O'Reilly - Now Available in Podcast Form, December 08 2008
The Lawsuit Ain't Over Til the Fat Lady Sings, December 01 2008
Help! The Polar Bears Have Fallen Down the Well!, November 24 2008
A 2008 e-Voting Wrapup with Dr. Barbara Simons, November 07 2008
The Watering Hole Turns 100, October 30 2008
Why your clock radio is all abuzz about your iPhone, October 27 2008
Three Degrees of Conflagration: Dr. Andrew Weaver on Modeling Global Warming, October 22 2008
The Ever-Dynamic John Lam on Iron Ruby, Open Source and Microsoft, September 29 2008
Theodore Tso: How the LSB Helps You Behind the Scenes, September 22 2008
Free as in ...?, September 16 2008
Jim Zemlin at OSCON: The Mysterious Work of the Linux Foundation, September 04 2008
ONLamp is now twice as funny!, April 04 2008
The Worthlessness of Code, March 25 2008
The OLPC, 3 Months In, March 10 2008
Least Appropriate Uses of Perl You've Seen, January 04 2008
Sysadmin Week for the Perl Survey, September 10 2007
Ding, Dong, SCO is Dead?, August 11 2007
A View of Linux from the Land of Suits, July 31 2007
Another Linux Milestone, May 24 2007
Looks like Microsoft is ramping up for Son of SCO, May 14 2007
Your Turn to Play Stump the Author..., May 08 2007
Welcome to The Watering Hole (The Comic Strip Launches!), May 03 2007
The ONLamp Ombudsman Wants YOU, April 30 2007
The Virtues of Monoculture, April 24 2007
Two Signs of the Time, April 24 2007
Sue me, I lied, March 23 2007
The Pause That Refreshes, March 21 2007
Now Arriving at Gate 6, Your New Editor, March 15 2007
In Praise of the Electron, and Keeping Your Powder Dry,

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Webcast: Open Source Language Roundtable
July 22, 2009
Duration: Approximately 90 minutes. Cost: Free We all have our favorite languages in our tool-belt, but is there a best overall language? If anyone can hash that out, it will be the members of this roundtable discussion, some of the stars of the open...

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