Business Idea
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Am I a bad person for thinking that there would be a market for infant clothing made out of Swiffer cloth?
Archive for October, 2007
Am I a bad person for thinking that there would be a market for infant clothing made out of Swiffer cloth?
Late to the Party
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007I've come late to the social networking party --- I mean, I have a social network, I just hadn't webified it until recently. But the more I think about future directions for DrProject (assuming funding materializes some day), the more I realize that software project management portals are really just ...
Encouraging Collaboration
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007I've been meeting four new grad students (Samira, Jeremy, Carolyn, and Jon) on Monday mornings this term. Initially, the point was to pick apart some research papers: what good ideas do they contain, what are the strengths and flaws in their presentation, etc. For next week, though, I've set them ...
It’s All a Matter of Perspective
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007I got my first email message from my daughter this morning. It said: zZ gcvcv nc 4rfcd 5tcde x345vZCXv cCd fzaxAsZ sw 55cde ...
The Burning Man of HPC
Friday, October 26th, 2007It's a small world: Andy Oram, my co-editor on Beautiful Code, just interviewed Brent Gorda, co-author of the first version of the Software Carpentry course, about the cluster challenge that's running at Supercomputing'07. Don't be fooled by the purple-on-black titles: this is a very cool idea. Students teams get ...
Today Was More Fun
Thursday, October 25th, 2007I spent today at the Free Software & Open Source Symposium at York University Seneca College's York U campus (sorry, David). It was a lot more fun than the academic workshops I've been at recently. The speakers and audience are genuinely engaged in what they're talking about, and ...
The Meme Spreads
Thursday, October 25th, 2007DesignCamp Waterloo will be held on Thursday, November 8. I won't be able to make it, but I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who attends.
Explain Why This Wouldn’t Work
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Could a development portal like SourceForge, Trac, or DrProject be built as a Facebook application? OK, that's poorly-phrased: clearly, one could be. Would it make sense to do so? Privacy would be one big concern (esp. for non-open source projects), and I'd worry about it disappearing without warning due to ...
Wrong Again
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007I've been saying for a while now that Javascript---sorry, ECMAScript---has a good shot at being the hottest general-purpose scripting language in the world five years from now. After looking through the 4th Edition Language Overview, I'd like to temper that bold assertion. The language is now as complicated as Ruby ...
Another Thing I Should Be Doing
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Google Code Search now supports packagemap files. We should do this for DrProject, OLM, and other projects. There aren't enough hours in the day :-(