BurningbirdI have never been one to jump on the syndication and aggregator wagons, following all the latest innovations. I still don’t provide full feeds for my syndication feeds at Burningbird; and I think Podcasting is half craze, half pirate radio station without the élan of continually escaping the clutches of the FCC. But I do […]
I do most of my development on remote servers, either at my client’s or my own sites. However, when contemplating server-side development in a disconnected environment, I had to decide if I wanted to create the local work space on my PC or my Mac. The PC has more space, but most applications run into […]
I feel a strong urge to work on code, I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s because code is something I can wrap my hands around…and throttle the heck out of it. Note if you’re not a tech, much of the following is still going to be of interest if you use or plan to use […]
Open source is a lot like sex: everything works so much better when all the participants aren’t passive. I’ve worked on a variety of projects in the last twenty years that ranged in size from the second largest computer system in the world, to small applications used by only a few people. In this time I’ve learned […]
When developers talk about creating a software fork, what we mean is that we’re going to take a cut of the code of the original and then develop from that point on in a separate and usually no longer compatible branch. Firefox is an example of a fork of the original Mozilla project that was so […]