Agile Documentation and the Government
Since I am posting this on Valentines Day, its appropriate that Ive chosen to discuss one of a developers great loves: Documentation. Okay, so the truth is most developers…
Three Hours With Vista
Normally Id buy a laptop online or snipe one off eBay. But I needed one quick. So off to Best Buy with Scott Stults. A quick evaluation reveals a…
Ruby-like Hash in C# (sharp)
One of the things I like about ruby is that you get more done with less typing, and though c# is a powerful language, Ive been wishing for a…
Whats your favorite podcast?
As part of some research for a potential project involving podcasting, Id like to know what your favorite podcasts are. Do you have certain podcasts you regularly listen to?…
The Transportation Security Administration May Be Hijacked By Web 2.0
For those of you who have griped about a long line for screening at an airport, or, alternatively, have been pleasantly surprised at the swift passage through the screening…
Open Source vs. Proprietary Software in the Federal Government
Since I started with OpenSource Connections in July 2007, I have seen what an uphill battle it can be to get the various federal agencies to even consider an…
Other Governments Adopt Open Source…Is the U.S. Government Missing the Boat?
When we presented at the AFEI DoD Open conference in November, we noticed that there was a lot of talk about the Department of Defense adopting open source technologies….
4 Ways To Help the Government Adopt Open Source Technologies
Bob Sutor, Vice President of Open Source and Standards at IBM, issued a challenge to the open source community for 2008. One of his ten challenges to the community…
What Does Sun’s MySQL Acquisition Mean For Government IT Usage?
On January 16, Sun announced the pending purchase of MySQL AB, the company which owns the MySQL database. While MySQL is quite popular among developers, it has yet to…
5 Ways Open Source Benefits the Government
My partner Eric Pugh recently spoke at the Association For Enterprise Integrations 3rd Department of Defense Open Conference. He and Matt Jenks from SAIC covered the topic “Best Practices…
In the Lab: Amplify.ActiveRecord (porting ruby to c#)
Ive been secretly working on an active record type of port as a part of the Amplify Framework. The release of the ASP.Net MVC framework along with an MVC/MVP/Rails…
Software as a Service Hasn’t Caught On Everywhere
Sramana Mitra does a great job of summarizing several blog articles and discussions about companies that have pursued software as a service (SaaS) and the Extended Enterprise (EE, or,…