For those of you just tuning into the WordPress/Thesis battle, here is the current - as of 19 July 2010 - state of things:

Update: To be fair, a great deal of inspiration for this post came from Ed "Funkatron" Finkler and his session at phpWorks 2008 Picachu pitch-at-ya peek-at-you lightning talk called "Users are Assholes" and later by Matthew Weier O'Phinney's lightning talk called "How to get kicked off my Project." Thanks for the fodder guys!

On all sides of software development, there are annoyances. Some of them go beyond annoyances and into pet peeves. Some of them go beyond pet peeves and incite open war within projects and communities. After witnessing a number of these rants - from developers and non-developers - and even sharing a few myself, I thought maybe I could make the situation better.

Therefore, I present here for comment:

The Ten Commandments of Open Source Software.

As of 29 June 2010, web2project v2.0 is officially released! You can download it from SourceForge now.

Although this release had lots of bug fixes, the primary focus was on a few specific new features and major pieces of functionality. You can read the full v2.0 Release Notes, but in my opinion, the six most important items are:

It's been a week since tekX completed and there are a number of other tekX writeups to read but I thought I'd share one last one from a different point of view. To add some context, I'm not the guy that signs the contracts, approves the expenses, schedules the sessions, arranges the speakers, or anything useful. Due to other project commitments, I basically served as backup for some of those things and then as social chair for the evening events.

First off, I'm proud of our first time tekX speakers. Easily half of the speakers had never spoken at a tek before, off the top of my head that includes - Bill Karwin, David Strauss, Jason Austin, Josh Holmes, Kanwalijeet Singla, Kristina Chodorow, Matt Schmidt, Matt Turland, Ryan Stewart, Sumit Chawla, and myself. Since tek is the Community Conference and it tends to be incredibly technical, it takes a different mindset than many of the other conferences. Even better, a few of those people were first or second time conference speakers period.

During my Live Coding sessions at TEK·X* last week, one of the questions that came up repeatedly was:

Events... what are these Event things and why does Flex work like that?

When you initially dive into the world of Flex development**, most PHP'ers will quickly notice something weird. We're out of the world of Request/Response that we know and understand and into an odd world of Events, Listeners, and Publishers/Subscribers where things just don't play well together.