There’s a lot of talk these days about software factories. And books about software development borrowing from practices and processes used in automotive manufacturing. This is based on the premise that developing and delivering an application or functional enhancement is as complex as building an automobile, or locomotive. When one is working in an IT [...]
It doesn’t mean what you think it means.
I promised at PyCon I’d post my slides. It took me longer than it should have. The deck is here.
Matt Asay suggests that a definition for an open source company would be: An open source company is one that, as its core revenue-generating business, actively produces, distributes, and sells (or sells services around) software under an OSI-approved license. So, supposing that a company produces a software product. It is released under the GPL (or [...]
Nat asks a difficult question. One that I am frequently in the habit of posing, although not as straightforwardly. For example, the copyright notice for Windows XP (I haven’t seen the one for Vista yet) advises us that Portions of this product are based in part on the work of the Regents of the University [...]
While I was away on vacation, I got tagged by Nick and Stephe, so I guess I have to cough up the Five Things. Ever mindful that one’s identity is established by “the set of things you don’t know about me” (you know, mother’s maiden name, name of first pet, etc.), I am compelled by [...]
Summer is the season for circus camp. Yesterday was the end-of-session show. In preparation for which, Chris mocked up a schedule and roster for the various events. It turned out that as the show took shape, changes needed to be made (as they always do). The biggest change came with some of the aerialist routines; [...]
Cutting the tree down is the easy part. It feels like you’ve made a lot of progress when you yell “Timber” and hear the big crash. But getting the stump out is usually the bigger job.
Gina is reading Dickens again. David Copperfield, this time. Dickens is one of her favorite authors. The difficulty that arises when Gina is reading Dickens, is that every 15 minutes or so she bursts out in peals of laughter, or exclaims “Just so!” and says “R0ml, you have to hear this.” Sometimes it’s hard to [...]
Yes, we do. Here’s what it looks like: Three different kinds of cereals. In their decanters. Yup, that’s part of putting the groceries away. Milk on the refrigerator shelf. Bread in the bread-box. Bananas on the banana hammock. And cereals, of course, decanted. And the empty boxes discarded. It seems that most people don’t decant [...]