Pin ItDesign, the business mantra, has been all the rage the last few years. Fast Company magazine never fails to write about it in every issue. You can debate whether it's a fad or not (I think it's here to stay), but the latest design emphasis started with Apple's reemergence and proof that people care [...]
Read More »Pin ItWow, this Japanese employee is getting some of the royalties from a product that uses a patent he developed … while working at the company. Hitachi pays out in patent dispute with employee | Channel Register A Japanese inventor has won a patent dispute with his employer which will net him 163 million yen [...]
Read More »Pin It Up until a few days ago, I saw no reasons to change the shell prompt on my systems. It all looked a little different, but I was ok with it. Well, that changed last night while I attended a presentation at the Boulder-Denver Ruby Users Group. Ara, the presenter, had modified his prompt [...]
Read More »Pin ItIt's been a big month for open source – quite a few companies have announced open source plans, and I'm not just talking about using more open source software but actually open sourcing software, data or APIs. Here are some of the ones I've heard of. They aren't all open sourcing large software programs, [...]
Read More »Pin ItWal-Mart's latest exploit in the blogging world has given them a lot of grief. Here's what I understand happened: There was a blog by a couple traveling around the US staying at Wal-Mart parking lots and writing about their stays and the Wal-Mart employees and customers that they met. Then the news came out [...]
Read More »Pin ItIT Manager's Journal has an interesting article on open source and women, Opening doors to open source for women. (It's a topic I've blogged about before, Women (or lack thereof) in Computer Science, a problem or not?) Pia Waugh (somebody I've been wanting to meet!) is quoted extensively. She has several good points from [...]
Read More »Pin It It seems an eternity ago. I hadn't begun kindergarden yet. We were living in a fairly large (or it seemed at the time) development complex in Laval, near Montreal. I still had training wheels on my bicycle. Many of my friends were rid of their training wheels. I wanted be just like them, [...]
Read More »Pin ItThere are some corners of the open source constellation and pockets of innovation you might not be aware of….some totally wicked stuff that will blow your lid when you see it and when you think about the trajectory these harbingers represent. To absorb this, any notion that open source is solely a software phenomena [...]
Read More »Pin ItFor the past six weeks I had the unique experience of not having to check my calendar daily (or multiple times a day.) It turned out not to be a good experience for me – I forgot the few things that were in my calendar because I never checked it. So last week, when [...]
Read More »Pin ItI'm back at work and happy to be here. A lot is happening both at OpenLogic and in the world of open source. At OpenLogic the first thing I noticed is that we've hired and we're hiring (in particular we are hiring software engineers, sales engineers and support engineers.) As soon as I finished [...]
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