With a Little Help From My Friends So I haven’t blogged much in the last month. Now I blog twice in one evening1. I’ve been incredibly busy on something that it turns out is the topic for this post. Today coming across the Iron Man feed was Gábor Szabó’s post about “Cooperation among Perl freelancers”. This hit pretty close to home for me sinc... Read more 12 May 2010 - 3 minute read
Fixing a Hole Recently xenoterracide mentioned an issue he had with Dist::Zilla which he solved in a clever way1. I had been thinking about this problem for a while myself. RJBS generates solid code, and nobody agree’s 100% on everything I respect him enough to give serious thought to his solutions to problems. So it was surprising to me that I... Read more 12 May 2010 - 2 minute read
iPad Hating has Jumped the Shark In his recent post Wrong About the iPad, Tim Bray attempts to rebut a quote from Marc Benioff. But then Benioff goes on to say “It’s not about text, or even animation, it’s about video.” That is so, so, wrong. Intelligence is a text-based application. Benioff isn’t stupid but that remark is. I read Tim Bra... Read more 06 Apr 2010 - 5 minute read
No Vendors? Recently in a post about his moving to Google, Tim Bray said: The big thing about the Web isn’t the technology, it’s that it’s the first-ever platform without a vendor (credit for first pointing this out goes to Dave Winer). I’ve always respected Mr. Bray, I follow his blog avidly and I really enjoyed his discussion of le... Read more 17 Mar 2010 - 3 minute read
Been There, Done That An email recently came up on the EPO-Marketing list that I made a long and rambling reply to. The ideas I expressed there I think are important and should get expressed to a larger audience so I thought I’d put them here. The original poster to the email mentioned the recent excursion to CeBit. The impression was that the... Read more 14 Mar 2010 - 6 minute read