2005-12-22
The Microsoft of Open Source
In a discussion about a recent proposal to the apache community, someone mentioned that the ASF is becoming the 'Microsoft of open source'. I'm sure the point was not made in a positive light, but I'd just like to reflect on this. In my eyes Microsoft is: - large and competitive - known for producing a shitty v1, but slowly and surely making it's product superior - known ...
2005-12-21
user preferences
So in my quest to avoid doing some real work, I wrote a little django app to help with storing user preferences. you know.. stuff like the kind of markup editor the user wants to use. I wanted a common place so the user would only need to go to one place and be able to edit everything he cares about there, instead of spreading the stuff into ...
2005-12-20
Bidding for projects
On The "relevance blog":http://www.relevancellc.com/blogs/?p=92 today, Stuart mentions how his company underbids his competitors by 30-50% for projects. and how rails lets him do this. Personally I'm not so sure I would be doing this. (disclaimer: I haven't placed a bid for anything for a long time). why not? *price = quality* for a lot of people, and by being so ...
2005-12-20
Will Work for Cotton
It was a pleasure working on the Summer of Code, and the T-Shirt I just got for mentoring is cool too. Of the four graduates, one has become active in the httpd community Congrats Sam!
I wonder how many are active in the other projects.. guys??
2005-12-19
web2.0 companies need holidays too
