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Writing Open Source software that people will actually use
I gave this presentation at the 2010 Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC). Someone suggested I write about Open Source software being used for dispersed team collaboration based on my interviews for Wide Teams, and my knee-jerk reaction was “nobody … Continue reading
Posted in Presentations
Tagged campfire, chat, dispersed teams, floss, git, irc, jabber, oss, presentations, remote collaboration, screensharing, skype, teamviewer, vcs, voip, xmpp
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Facebook must be stopped
Blah blah privacy whatever. I don’t really care about most of the beefs people have with Facebook because I tend to agree with Zuckerberg that online privacy is a pipe dream. You can throw all the security you want around … Continue reading
Open Source GUI Prototyping? Sign me up!
The Pencil Project’s unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. via Home – Pencil Project.
Looking for a new NullDB maintainer
I love Open Source. NullDB, a weekend hack that I barely touched after its first version, continues to attract periodic forks and patches. For a long time I’ve been meaning to sit down and roll in all the contributions that … Continue reading
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Tagged activerecord, datamapper, floss, nulldb, oss, ruby, testing
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