So, today was my first day at OpenLogic. I'm sitting directly across from a colleague I've worked with before, Scott Nicholls… who also started today. Scott and I shared the Situation Room at the last company we worked at. (The quick explanation for that is that we were traveling on business together, and were flipping [...]
Read More »There will be no Linux Vista by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn — Imagine if, in the proprietary era, Microsoft launched a major Windows upgrade while its main rival stood still. That would be advantage Microsoft. Under the present system it may well be advantage Linux. One of the advantages of open source is that projects release [...]
Read More »I used to have street cred. I was a hardcore VIM user. When I was still in college and new to Unix I would find some cheezy editor like pico and stick with that for coding. Finally I ended up on an HP-UX box with nothing but vi. When the sys-admin told me it'd take [...]
Read More »The Linux kernel team is offering to write hardware drivers for any hardware company that gives them a spec or at least access to an engineer that can answer questions. This is big news! Kernel drivers have been a hot topic for a long time with issues that range from proprietary drivers (is that legal [...]
Read More »One of my posts back in late November was about the Arduino open source microcontroller platform. In that article I mentioned that my 8 year old son, Nakoa, and I were embarking on a little father/son electronics exploration. Not long after I wrote that, he and I went to see the IMAX presentation "Roving Mars" [...]
Read More »It’s been a rough winter so far here in Colorado. Denver and the surrounding areas along the Front Range usually experience only occasional snowstorms and cold spells separated by mild temperatures and sunny days. Not this year. We’ve had record amounts of snow and days upon days of single-digit temperatures. It was during the worst [...]
Read More »I've been at the Open Source Meets Business Congress this week in Nuremberg, Germany. My talk about OpenLogic went very well, especially the Q&A session. The audience validated my thinking that Europeans, in general, are less interested in indemnification and more interested in our support model and especially our Expert Community concept. They were very happy [...]
Read More »Right after the Apple Newton came out, I took a job demoing them in stores because I wanted one. Not only did I want an Apple Newton but I really wanted to go to the weekend class where they showed you all the ins and outs. Standing in Best Buys and Circuit City's wasn't the [...]
Read More »I've decided to dress a little nicer at work lately. It wasn't any particular thing that did it, but more like a confluence of events within a few days that pushed me over the edge. First, I heard or saw something about "Dress for Success", a book that shows and tells you how to dress [...]
Read More »First, a little background for non-users of open source: Because users have access to the source code (for most projects), when users encounter problems, bugs, or just unexpected behavior, they can inspect the source code to see what's going on under the covers. This visibility is extremely useful for developers to learn new techniques and [...]
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