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Shuttleworth on Project Management

Mark Shuttleworth, of Thawte fortune and Ubuntu fame, has some (IMHO) neat ideas on how to manage software development efforts that may be interesting to spend a few human processing cycles considering. http://lwn.net/Articles/292031 Despite the article being written for Free Software and Linux, I think it’s incredibly relevant to all development efforts – read it … Continue reading Shuttleworth on Project Management →

Distributed services – the past, present, and future of the Internet

The Internet started as a distributed network – ARPANET. Its protocol, TCP/IP, was designed so that hosts anyone could communicate without relying on a central authority, and if any one host went down, it didn’t affect the other others’ ability to work. Gradually, as ARPANET evolved into the Internet, that distributed architecture became more important. … Continue reading Distributed services – the past, present, and future of the Internet →

Resig’s Processing.js

John Resig (of jQuery fame) released processing.js on Thursday. If you haven’t checked it out, you should! It is really impressive. On the newest versions of some browsers, and on the next version of others, it’s possible to pretty much duplicate the capabilities of Flash, but entirely using markup and Javascript. The real excitement comes … Continue reading Resig’s Processing.js →

CSS Color Shorthand not supported in Adobe Flash

Flash doesn’t support CSS color shorthand – an obscure feature of CSS that I bet not many know about. CSS color shorthand defines that whenever a both hex digits in a color component of a CSS color are the same, you can eliminate one digit to reduce the color definition from 6 digits (2 each … Continue reading CSS Color Shorthand not supported in Adobe Flash →

Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over

“In a few years’ time, almost all businesses will use open source” says a recent Gartner report entitled, “The State of Open Source 2008.” The report continues with statements such as, “By 2012, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms.” (I’m getting my data from ZDNet, as … Continue reading Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over →

“95% of software is developed by enterprises each year and is not for resale”

At the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jim Whitehurst (CEO of Red Hat) made a number of great points about Free Software and how it can help companies, including his own. According to Whitehurst, “95% of software is developed by enterprises each year and is not for resale.” Furthermore, he states … Continue reading “95% of software is developed by enterprises each year and is not for resale” →

Windows, Java, and an Internationalization Mess

The project which I’m currently working on is a Java project, powered by Spring, built by Maven. I use Ubuntu/Linux to build and run the project locally, but everyone else on the team uses Windows XP. We recently got back a set of translations that included pages in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian – all … Continue reading Windows, Java, and an Internationalization Mess →

Firefox 3 – making the web a little better

I’ve been using Firefox 3 betas for a few months now, through the really rough times when bookmarking was totally broken, up until the present day (Firefox 3.0b4 – click for a short review). It’s really been an impressive transformation, and I think that it will mark a very nice evolution in the web. It’s … Continue reading Firefox 3 – making the web a little better →