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Announcing Red Cog.

Red Cog?

Red Cog is a social software development and support business. Red Cog will offer paid development and support contracts for blojsom and other projects such as del.icio.us Java, Akismet Java, Simpy Java, and future projects. In the past few months, I've had interest in paid development and support for blojsom from a number of companies. And ... well ... why not get paid to further develop and support your software?

What's with the name Red Cog?

The hardest part about forming a company is, IMHO, choosing a company name and a logo. I racked my brain for quite awhile trying to come up with an appropriate name. Of course I tried using anagrams with my name, my software projects, etc... and nothing really clicked. The name had to be simple and be applicable across projects and future work. blojsom could work as a company name, but would be specific to blojsom development and support.

It wasn't until I stepped back and looked at the redesigned blojsom logo that the perfect name hit me. I wanted to re-use the new "gear" in the logo, except it wasn't a gear. It was a cog, as I saw it ... albeit a futuristic looking cog. And it was red. The rest, as they say, is history. I checked for the company name, Red Cog, in the state's company database and the USPTO's trademark database. A few online forms and Red Cog was officially a company.

My business card on Flickr.

Does this mean those projects such as blojsom are now non-free or closed source?

Absolutely not!

All this means is that if an individual or company wants to pay Red Cog for development and/or guaranteed support for blojsom and other such projects, they can do that.

What's next?

Release blojsom 3.0. Roll out the Cog Blog. Announce clients.

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I'm basically checking out for the rest of this week and the weekend. This Saturday is my 30th birthday and my sister's wedding.

See you on the flip-side!

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Blojsom 2.31 is now available.

Changelog
Upgrading instructions
Download updates
Download Quickstart
Bugs fixed

And so ends the blojsom 2.x codebase.

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Do You Realize - The Flaming Lips

*yawn*

I guess it will work with blojsom.

Placed the order for my new snowboard setup this morning.

Burton Custom 156

Burton CO2

It needs to snow like ... yesterday.

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Simpy

Simpy is a social bookmarking service. With Simpy, you can save, tag and search your own bookmarks and notes or browse and search other users' links and tags. You can be open and share your links with others, or keep them private.

Simpy also helps you find like-minded people, discover new and interesting sites, publish your bookmarks, detect and eliminate link-rot, etc.

The Simpy-Java API is part of the larger SimpyTools project that includes libraries in various programming languages, for using the REST API of simpy.com, but also a FF extension and more.

Changelog.
Download.
Javadocs.

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Akismet-Java API

Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again. Akismet Java is an API for interacting with Akismet.

Changelog.
Download.
Javadocs.

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delicious-java

delicious-java is a Java API for interacting with the del.icio.us social bookmarks service.

Changelog.
Download.
Javadocs.

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ICU4R - International Components for Ruby

ICU4R is an attempt to provide better Unicode support for Ruby, based on ICU library.

The RubyForge page has all the project-related information, while the homepage has the RDoc for the latest codebase.

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Love Train - Wolfmother