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April 2005
Forking the LGPL into the BSD
2005.04.28 Thu 11:56 P GMT-07
Bear with me for a moment. Let's say I have a fruit tree that has pretty good fruit on it. It also never ceases to bear fruit. And I give away the fruit for free out of the goodness of my heart. (I'll even let you take my fruit and dip it in choc
Category: linux open source
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All your bits are belong to us (errr bitkeeper)
2005.04.26 Tue 12:37 A GMT-07
So a picure is worth a thousand words...
I'll try and explain this in less than 1000 words. My brother and I were talking about the BitKeeper incident last week. He claimed that the revocation of the BK license to OSDL and that Linus' subseque
Choprock incident hits close to home
2005.04.25 Mon 12:59 A GMT-07
The news of the two men found in Choprock canyon last week hit me really close to home. Not just because I'm from Utah, but also because I have spent a bit of time hiking in the canyons of Southern Utah during my college days. I could envision myse
Trogdor comes in the night.... so leave the light on
2005.04.22 Fri 10:51 P GMT-07
The past few nights our daughter Olivia has claimed that there are monsters in her room (too much Monsters Inc?). She has been sleeping with the lights on. When the lights are on, she is completely calm and has no fear, and finally relaxes and goes
Category: linux open source
Marten Mickos keynote observations
2005.04.22 Fri 10:43 P GMT-07
Last Wednesday I attended a very interesting keynote given by Marten Mickos entitled "Scale Out". Here's a few gems that I gleaned from it:
He stated that the survivors of the dot com era built their infrastructure on top of open source (and men
Category: linux open source
Demoing SpikeSource at MySQLUC
2005.04.20 Wed 10:14 P GMT-07
Today I was lucky enough to attend the MYSQL Users Conference for most of the day.The keynote by Marten Mickos which was very interesting (will blog on that later). It's very interesting to see how far MySQL has come. (We used MySQL fo
Category: linux open source
Baypiggies meeting with Guido
2005.04.14 Thu 11:15 P GMT-07
Tonight I went to the well attended repeat of Guido's Pycon 2005 talk "The State of the Python Union". He started off by explaining his "beta [crunch] beard" and how he was now addressed as professor due to it. Then he quickly discussed the syntax
Category: python open source
Back in Google
2005.04.12 Tue 11:48 P GMT-07
Sometime today I was put back in googles index...
I have no clue what happened. Are they just toying with me?
Even more competition Ubuntu and Debian...
2005.04.12 Tue 12:06 A GMT-07
So a week ago I was able to install Hoary Hedgehog. What can I say? The install was simple, and it worked. Kubuntu worked as well. I had been itching to install debian for a while to try it out, yet as I'm a more bleeding edge type of guy, I knew
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Burninated by Google
2005.04.11 Mon 11:56 P GMT-07
Hmmm, there seems to be a conspiracy brewing. One day I'm blogging about how I'm ranking pretty good for some searches in Google (considering that few read or link to my blog) and the next day Google no longer acknowledges my existence. The three o
Sticky clay at Fremont Older
2005.04.10 Sun 9:52 P GMT-07
I was able to go mountain biking for the first time in a few months yesterday. I've only been once since I had a nasty endo last fall at Soquel Demo Forest (picture above), leaving me attending physical therapy for a month.
Yesterday morning it app
Google bombing with Dick Proenneke
2005.04.09 Sat 2:20 P GMT-07
An interesting observation. One of the cool features of blog city is that you can view statistics for your blog, which includes websites that refer to your blog. Interestingly enough if you search for "Dick Proenneke" my blog appears on page 3. In
Architecture of participation, wikipedia and dguitar
2005.04.08 Fri 1:43 A GMT-07
It's pretty amazing how the internet enables people to work together. Tim O'Reilly has dubbed this the Architecture of Participation.
Just the other day I made an entry in wikipedia. Wikipedia has this really cool feature where you can see all of
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The long tail of boxes, jeans and trogdor
2005.04.06 Wed 12:50 A GMT-07
Above is a graph illustrating the much blogged about long tail. It starts steep on the left side, continues through burnination and tapers off after a while to a little point.
I was talking with an acquaintance the other day and he was was telling
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More competition, Ruby on Rails, Java and Python...
2005.04.05 Tue 12:33 A GMT-07
More thoughts on competition...
Justin Gehtland's blog where he mentions his delvings into RoR was slashdotted today. Here is a Java author (he wrote a book about the Spring Framework), jumping ship and advocating the use of Ruby for web developmen