Software As She’s Developed

As mentioned in the previous post, I was at Open World Forum in Paris these past couple of days. Previous notes covered today’s FOSSBazaar workshop, here’s a veritable panaply of miscellany from the other sessions. Opening Keynotes Risk of balkanisation in communities govt (mil.forge) commercial (gcode) ?developer (eclipse) Worldwide IT spend 3.48T 18% of apps abandoned 55% “challenged” Poprietary software quality [...]

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Quick notes from today’s FOSSBazaar event at Open World Forum in Paris. Usual caveats on typos etc as I was writing these notes live. Martin Michlmayr overviews FOSSBazaar Procurement – might like to avoid, but they have a really important role to play. With open source, it’s easy to ignore procurement – why go through procurement when [...]

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I’ve been at the FOSSBazaar workshop in SF for the past couple of days – an afternoon session and a session this morning. It’s part of the Linux Summit, FOSSBazaar being a workgroup of the Linux Foundation (though it’s not Linux-specific). (It was news to me that Good Friday isn’t an official public holiday in [...]

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A new DHTML boxing “game” from the Man In Blue. Not quite DHTML Lemmings or Super Maryo World, but still more fun than it should be. A bit like the Ruby On Rael thing in reverse. Also from the same presentation is an eerily lifelike OSX clone (Firefox-only). More evidence that Ajax might be useful [...]

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