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May 2005
Google recruiting through subsidizing open source?
2005.05.31 Tue 11:36 P GMT-07
It appears that Google has a new way of recruiting, paying students to become open source developers. I'm thinking about this Summer of Code thing and the only reason I can think of for doing it (other than not being evil and maitaining geek karma)
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SpikeSource TestFest
2005.05.31 Tue 12:23 P GMT-07
For those interested in testing and Open Source, my employer (SpikeSource) is throwing a TestFest on June 17th at our offices in Redwood City, CA. Our Test Upload Service allows you to test your code (open or closed source) against various platforms
Expertise and Open Source
2005.05.24 Tue 11:41 P GMT-07
[forgive the lack of charts, my blogging service is in the middle of an upgrade]
I've been thinking about another driver of features in Open Source software given the recent noise surrounding the harmony project. I'll get back to harmony in a minut
Category: linux open source
Python Challenge the greatest thing to happen to python since ruby on rails?
2005.05.24 Tue 11:01 P GMT-07
So I've been spending a little bit of time doing the python challenge. It is interesting and somewhat addicting. A few other people at my work have also started on it, and it seems to have picqued their interest in python. This seems like it could
Category: python open source
Bay Piggies meeting with Alex Martelli
2005.05.19 Thu 11:09 P GMT-07
I was lucky to get a seat (and dinner) at the standing room only presentation by Alex Martelli tonight. The talk, which was a repeat of his PyCon talk, called Python Design Patterns and OOP, was hosted by Google. His theme throughout the talk was t
Category: python open source
Screendoor Security
2005.05.16 Mon 1:00 A GMT-07
I just had a wierd experience. While rocking my son to sleep I saw something jump across the floor. The lights were kind of dim but I was pretty sure it was too big to be a spider and too small to be a rodent. Upon closer inspection it was a amphi
Category: python
Freedom forking for features in Open Source
2005.05.12 Thu 11:37 P GMT-07
Considering the recent discussions about KHTML and its fork found in Safari, I thought I'd post about forks. Are forks good or bad? Yes.
One might argue that people should collaborate rather than fork. But doesn't most open source development a
Category: linux open source
Free your mind with Swing (and freemind)
2005.05.05 Thu 11:10 P GMT-07
I feel sorry for Java Swing apps sometimes (I don't want to get into a discussion about bloat here, cause I'm not really talking about it). Python is immune from it because it doesn't really have a gui library (I've even heard Guido say that guis ar
Fear and contribution to open source
2005.05.05 Thu 10:42 P GMT-07
I was talking with an Apache contributor today. He was lamenting that more of the users of his projects could contribute back, but did not. I asked what he believed were the reasons. We discussed two:
One was work. People or their employers di
Category: linux open source
Flattery and Open Source
2005.05.01 Sun 12:48 A GMT-07
So Apple just released their latest OS. It has all the newest bells and whistles. Which it should since Apple has a lot of really smart people working for them. They certainly innovate a lot over there in Cupertino. And guess what, even us non-ap
Category: linux open source