Last week-end I’ve attended the sunday sessions given for the OSDC.fr 2010 at la Cité des Sciences – Paris, La Villette. It was pretty cool to meet developers from different backgrounds sharing their knowledge and experience with passion – a special mention to Stéphane Bortzmeyer for his excellent talk about the Go programming language!

As it often occurs with Open Source softwares, that’s pretty impressive to see how fast some fairly recent projects become production-ready and widely adopted: to me that’s definitely the case of Redis (key-value data store) which has this do-one-thing-and-do-it-well flavor.

Let me also give a word about SPORE (aka Specification to a POrtable Rest Environment): as REST has become an extremely popular pattern to design web services, developers are implementing again and again yet another REST client. In a DRY fashion, SPORE is an interesting initiative which could be summed up by do not write a client anymore: write an API specification instead. We’ll publish soon the Moodstocks API SPORE spec to test it out!