Home Archives: October 2005

Postel Rules OK!?

I actually wanted to write about this a while ago, but never got around to it. A recent comment on Dion Almaer’s Blog reminded me that some programmers conside...

Things to Ponder - Part 1

In Chapter 8 of The Innovator’s Dilemma Clayton M. Christensen says. One could take two sets of identically capable people and put them to work in two diff...

Ruby Conf 2005

Ruby Conf was fantastic. It was great to meet up with the rest of the rails core team, and finally get a 1.0 release candidate out the door. Meeting lots of other p...

Jamie Zawinski, King of Linux Rants

JWZ maintains one of the really really entertaining blogs on livejournal. The main reason I subscribe is that he links to random interesting stuff he finds on the inte...

It's Common Sense Really

It strikes me, that the main reason Microsoft is more open than Apple, is probably that Microsoft haven’t shipped anything major for almost 5 years. Being open...

The Real IBM

There’s quite a bit of discussion around this story of IBM’s modus operandi which appeared on blogspot, and k5. I’ve worked with IBM on numerous o...