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 [...]
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 [...]
MacZot Manical Rage
Another disturbing development from the Mac Shareware front: Garrett Murray developed an application called xPad (stickies, text edit replacement) for OS X and was selling it as shareware. He agreed to sell the website, application and some other bits of intellectual property to Brian Ball of macZOT, a shareware promotion website. Sales apparently weren’t as [...]
RiffTrax Needs Integration
RiffTrax looks awesome. I was a huge MST3K fan and throught that Mike Nelson was hilarious (screw you CowBoyNeal).
It’s a good concept: Mike Nelson as sarcastic commentary track on any movie. I simply can’t tell you the number of times I wished there was a MST3K button on my remote. I’d press it and the [...]
NewsAlloy Issues
I wrote a previous post about an Essential Feature of online feedreaders.
Unfortunately, NewsAlloy doesn’t seem to be tackling the “switching cost” issue with any sense of urgency. This is really too bad as the interface seems very responsive and well thought out. Underlying this though it would seem that they don’t really want people [...]
An Essential Feature
I just tried out the new Feedexa online RSS reader.
It’s fairly slick, but has one big feature missing: a “Mark All As Read” command. There’s one for each individual feed, but not a global one. In some user scenarios this is a “nice to have feature”, but for a new entrant into a market [...]
Sticking Up for Flock
Flock released their “Developer Preview” with caveats and warnings written in a font size larger than the H1 of anyone else and lots of people seem to have taken them to task because it’s Not Ready for Primetime.
This doesn’t make any sense to me, it’s clearly labeled “Developer Preview”. It doesn’t say “Public Relations [...]