In the keynote where Alan Cooper proclaimed that Agile processes are bad for developing quality software, he made another provoking statement: that Open-Source is ultimately a symptom of management failure. His point is that with the right enthusiasm and commitment to your products, why would anyone go and work in an Open-Source project on their [...]
The D Programming Language has an impressive list of cool features. That is not always a good thing. A feature should contribute to the philosophy and foundation on which the language was built. If it doesn’t, harmony breaks down and the result is a language that is harder to learn and to use.
Some people think [...]
I just watched an interview with Steve Yegge on the Google Code Blog. The interview was mostly about his current project Rhino on Rails. It was interesting, although not interesting enough to keep my attention for the entire 25 minutes. After some time I kind of tuned out, but I kept the video cast running [...]
