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Monthly Archives: December 2009
jQuery PeriodicalUpdater Updates
A couple updates to the jQuery PeriodicalUpdater (original post): the $400 update and a much simpler Updater API.
Thanks to GitHub, [...]
The New Wheel: A Software Engineering Parable
In the early days of humankind, a young man excitedly ran up to the leader of the tribe. "You won't believe it! I have an awesome invention! See, I know that our parents invented the wheel, but the wheel has all kinds of problems. It's too hard to produce. It rolls away on you when you want to stand still. It's hard to understand and to describe to people—'it's like a thin slice of smooth rock with a hole in the middle' isn't exactly easy to grok."
Priorities
You want to know something that is really an abomination against the Christian way of life? Borrowing and lending money for interest.
Posted in Classic, Metacognition 29 Comments
The Self-Destructive Side of Open Source Software
There's a bit of a misunderstanding about the economics open source software. Most importantly, people seem to be missing that commercializing open source software seems to be fundamentally self-destructive.
Posted in Classic, Open Source, Software Business 11 Comments
“That’s Great. Now What?” (The 7 Minute Sermon)