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Back in town
We’re back from Heidelberg. It was a great experience, got to spend time with Carl, and bumped into Tracy Adams in Frankfurt, whom I hadn’t seen in a long time. It’s good to be back now, though, so we…
Joint development: MIT, Heidelberg University, Greenpeace Intl. team up to hire Collaboraid
I posted this on December 30th over at my company site, but I figured there were probably more readers here, so I’d cross-post.
I think it’s a really big deal, because it demonstrates very clearly th…
Power corrupts; PowerPoint corrupts absolutely
Aaron has some amazing power point slides of Robert Frosts poem, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Martin Luther King, Jr.s I Have a Dream speech, which he got from the Chicago Tribune M…
Open source books
The Register: Perens, Prentice deliver Open Source books. It’s going to be interesting to see how they develop.
1% of ASP.NET sites running Linux
According to Netcraft: .Net finds favour in the Linux community (scroll down):
Last week the Mono project released a new version of their Linux based implementation of the Microsoft .Net development …
The Direct Model for Software Development
I’m still reading Michael Dell’s book, and it occurred to me that in many ways what we’re engaged in is the same direct model Dell is pursuing, only for software development. It’s like a build-to-orde…
Haloween 8
Non-IE Browsers
I must admit that I usually use IE. I really like both Mozilla and Opera a lot, I think they’re probably about 99.9% right. But it’s their integration with the rest of Windows that destroys the pleasu…