Marvel API – Helper Library
It’s a dark and stormy night. You’ve been working on that last bit of code and an explosion rocks your…
Category: Open Source
Working in a Startup Wonderland
As a sequel to last year’s T’was the Night Before Christmas, set the tune of Winter Wonderland: Cell phones ring…
Where Open Source Fails
Earlier this week, I unsubscribed from the mailing lists of a pair of Open Source projects. About two years ago…
Contributions are More Than Code
Last week at the GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC), a GNOME Foundation member by the name of Dave…
The Ten Commandments of Open Source
Update: To be fair, a great deal of inspiration for this post came from Ed “Funkatron” Finkler and his session…
Approaches to Release Management
I'm all for stealing borrowing good ideas (not code) from other projects where it can be applicable. And since one…
Open Sourcing the Page Rank Algorithm
I'm proud to have the honor to make the single biggest announcement of 2009: Google is open sourcing the Page…
Building Community & Open Source
If you’re not part of the Joomla community – I’m not – you might have missed something significant that happened…
Contributing to Open Source
Over the last few months, I've heard a common thread in a number the various Open Source communities I participate…
Leading vs Following
Something happened at php|tek 2009. Okay, lots of stuff happened. I mean something big happened at php|tek 2009. A group…