Month: February 2006

I do not normally take to buzz words, hype and shiny new toys. These things usually annoy me. I do however think there is something to Web 2.0. I don’t want to go into what is meant by that here. See Tim O’Reilly’s landmark essay for a definition. If you look at the technologies that… Continue reading Going Web 2.0

Last year I attended a meeting of the ACM at HP in San Jose. The topic was the early history of computing. During the session the presenter touched on a patent court case for a patent on digital computing that had occurred in 1973. I was not exactly up with the latest tech news back… Continue reading A patent on digital computing

Something seems to be up with SourceForge. I have been using it heavily this week. CVS has been down three times for extended periods. The Admin web site has been down 4 times. This is seriously interrupting me! There are two possibilities: This is just a run of bad luck Sourceforge is underfunded To explore… Continue reading Whats up with SourceForge?

Linus Torvalds said right from the beginning “Release early, release often”. This seems to be a critical requirement for open source projects to attract collaborators. There is a whole chapter on this in The Cathedral & The Bazaar, the classic open source text. Having released ehcache-1.2beta3 with the distributed stuff in, some old collaborators and… Continue reading Release early, release often.