Sean Cribbs led a very wide ranging talk on how to manage and contribue to an open source project at last weeks Raleigh Ruby Camp.
Some things really stuck out to me:
1. The move to Github quieted the number of people who thought they were heavy handed as they could just fork whenever they wanted.
2. [...]
Running an OpenSource Project - Sean Cribbs
Rackspace, Malls and the Environment
I hadn’t checked out any of the FastCompany.TV ScobleShows. The one that caught my eye is below and features a tour and some extensive interviews with various Rackspace higher ups as they tour and discuss their reasoning for taking over an abandoned mall and making it into a new high tech data center. What I [...]
Failing Worse Than Failure
One of my favorite websites, Worse Than Failure, today posted an article slamming the Agile Programming methodology. Their basic premise:
Good people can build good software no matter what methodology they use. We don’t need a weight-loss pill for thin people; we need to solve the real problem behind failure in our industry. The [...]
Databar, not actually for SQL happy hour
So ProductDose has the scoop about the new half-height and double density improvement to the barcode, the DataBar. (though I’m not sure why, maybe because all their other stories are about items with barcodes?)
While I think the ideas good, if you’re going to go through all the trouble of switching everything around, how about [...]
Switching Funkeemonk
MacApper is running a contest for the best “switcher” story: someone ditching Windows for the Mac. Today’s entry was interesting, Joe Goh founder of FunkeeMonk a windows programmer turned Mac software developer.
Personally, I was less interested in his “switching story”, than in the story of how he got started with his business. As near [...]
Google Background Checks
Found this on John Battelle’s Searchblog, legal precedent has now been set letting Google searches for a person act as actionable information regarding employment.
That seems to be the crucial part of the ruling here, because it essentially means it’s acceptable for employers (or at least the federal government, as an employer) to check [...]
API Usefulness
One of the things I did to help manage Fabjectory mentions on the Internet was to develop a mini application that pulled in search results from a couple different sources and let me track and report on my responses to them. To pull this off, I used a number of free API’s whose results I [...]
Software is Hardware, Hardware is Software
While the phrase “Software is Hardware, Hardware is Software” is perhaps not literally true; it does highlight a larger truth: that over time what were once hardware functions have increasingly become software ones.
As part of Om Malik’s writeup of Akimbo’s decision to drop their actual hardware offering and become a software and service player [...]
Truemors as Market Intelligence
TechCrunch just posted about Guy Kawasaki’s newest venture: Truemors (I’m not including a link as all you get are annoying login messages at the moment). It was described as a “rumor reporting bulletin board with twitter-like capabilities.â€? Which sure hits the buzzwords nicely; really, is there a startup that is not trying to either: become [...]
SecondLife Backlash
I’m seeing more and more people criticizing SecondLife as being “overhyped” in the media.
Often, it’s pointed out that SecondLife has far fewer users than a world-beating Massive Multiplayer game like World of Warcraft (WoW), the contention being that since WoW is 10x the size of SecondLife that they should have a similarly large amount of [...]