Why Open Source Works
Last night I experienced again why open source works. I was beating my head getting sorting to work in Ruport (Ruby Reporting Package), and instead of opening a support…
Eric Pugh To Present At VPTC 2007 Trends Seminar
Eric Pugh will be a guest panelist at the September 2006 VPTC meeting. He will be covering trends in technology that we can expect to see in 2007. More…
Reflections on OSCON
It appears to me that, after having talked to countless people at OSCON, there is still a significant disconnect between IT and the rest of the business. I say…
Battle of the Scaffolds Aug 9th
Join Eric Pugh of OpenSource Connections August 9th at RubyJam as he pits two competing scaffolds designed for quickly ripping out a CRUD interface: AjaxScaffold and Streamlined. Learn the…
OSCON 1st day exhibit thoughts
The biggest thing that surprised me was the preponderance of Perl developers at the convention. For a “dying language,” Perl seems to be pretty alive and well. I also…
Running with scissors: overriding latest_revision SVN check in Capistrano
Ruby as a language sometimes feels like you are running with scissors. Its great to get from A to B quickly with your scissors, but there is a chance…
What are the costs and benefits of integration?
We are working to foster a relationship with a potential client. They have clients who use tools which do not integrate with each other, causing these clients to enter…
Trying to explain what “Open Source” is?
Here are a couple articles related to both open source software, as well as the culture surrounding the open source world. Open Source in the Public Interest An Overview…
Preparation for OSCON
While we did not think that we could sign up, show up, and generate business, there are many separate factors that we must consider to make sure that our…
Rolling out new blog
Weve discussed setting up a company-wide blog for a while now, and today I decided to just go ahead and do it. We looked at some of the powerful…