I read a book a while back that made me go "that's it!" Now, Discover Your Strengths is all about how we should spend our time doing things we are good at, becoming excellent at those tasks, rather than wasting our time trying to become mediocre at the things we aren't good at. I intuitively [...]
Read More »Dana Blakenhorn calls for "Open Source Lobbyists" and I completely agree with him. Companies and industries that have lobbyist in Washington do much better than those without, and unfortunately, those without lobbyists are usually all those that are not represented by a large company. Ever wondered why kids have to be in booster seats until [...]
Read More »I mentioned in a previous post that I was irritated with unnecessary software complexity and bloat. The general problem of bloat is endemic in most human endeavors whether it be software development, company growth, or my kid's closets….still it's something to fight against. For software, there are two major categories of bloat. 1) Feature bloat [...]
Read More »This is an ultra-brief, brass-tacks, rubber meets road description of what Sun's decision to open source Java means for the average developer. Someone asked a question about what open sourcing Java meant and I was surprised I didn't have a good answer. So not much opinion or independent thought here, this is just a summary [...]
Read More »After draft 3 of the GPLv3 came out we asked our Expert Community, a good representative sample of the open source community what they thought of it. (Note, I'm not a statistician but I believe the Expert Community is representative of the open source community because the Expert Community represents most of the 250+ open [...]
Read More »http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html So, this is interesting to me. Interesting only in that it is going to be annoying how much play this gets, particularly leading up to and at JavaOne. I can imagine it will be a large conversation point there, which bothers me. This is probably because (allow me to identify myself with marketing terminology) [...]
Read More »I had a pesky telemarketer call me on my cell-phone from Programmers Paradise a day or so ago. As you probably know, they primarily sell Windows developers tools. She wanted to know if I had 5 minutes to respond to a survey. When I said "No", she continued on asking what tools I used, what [...]
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