How Do You Measure Contributions?
Almost a month ago, my highly esteemed former colleague and the dotProject tech lead Adam Donnison asked an interesting question on his blog:I'm often amused at the store people put in statistics....
View ArticleTech for Good - OnDayOne.org ?
Maybe it's a part of the DC culture or maybe it's the overall direction that things are going - I don't know - what I do know is that there's one question that seems to be coming up repeatedly in a...
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Is a Facebook Good for my Business?
It seems like this question is being kicked around more and more lately. If you're active online at all, you've seen people talk about it. If you've been to any web conferences, you've heard people...
View ArticleNever Rebuild!?
When I wrote about the Broken Window Fallacy in Software Development a while back, it appears that there were a number of misunderstandings. First, there is a fundamental difference between the...
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Non-competes: A Technologist's Perspective
Any and all discussion and information in this post should be taken as professional commentary and analysis for a US-based audience, not legal advice. Nothing on this site should be taken as legal...
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Haven't We Suffered Enough?
About 20 months ago, I underwent a procedure. Although my life was never in danger and I didn't have to spend a single night in the hospital, the procedure was not without pain or difficulties....
View ArticleUseful Naming Conventions
In my regular web wanderings recently, I found a great post entitled "The 7 Worst Verbs Programmers Use In Function Calls" and couldn't help but be reminded of a system that I worked on a few years...
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Forks are Good!
At php|works last month, Jay Pipes had the closing keynote where he talked about forks in reference to Open Source Projects... just to (not!) go out on a limb here and say: I agree!There are a variety...
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Forks are Evil!!!!11eleventy one
Yesterday I noted how good and useful forks in Open Source Projects could be. Well, it turns out I was horribly wrong and I'm using this space to admit it: Forks are the highest order of evil and a...
View ArticleSocial Media: What's the Point?
In reading Peter Kim's post on "Social Media Predictions 2009", it was interesting to read some similar points to things I said here almost two weeks ago. It means either I'm reading things correctly...
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