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…
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…
Scrum War Stories Recap
As I promised at the close of our BoF: Scrum War Stories, I would write up a couple of the notes I made during our discussions. They arent in…
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…
Decompressing from OSCON
Im sitting at TopPot in Seattle slowly digesting all the things that we did and learned at OSCON! Ive got a stack of contacts to follow up with, and…
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…
We made it to OSCON!
After 8 hours of travel, we arrived into PDX last night at 10:50 PM. Headed down to the luggage claim and saw our pop up booth packed in a…
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…
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…
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…
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…