"I am extremely sad to report that Robert Miner, Design Science's VP of Research

ugh... password anti-pattern

"I believe that managing an opensource project is mainly a social activity, and GitHub's social features really make so many things easier. From this point of view, GitHub is clearly the best choice today." (Nov 2010)

The Java upstream project consider libraries to be part of the software bundle they release. So they keep the libraries at a precise version they tested, and only update them when they really need to. Essentially, they maintain their own platform of libraries. They do, at their scale, the same work the Linux distributions do. And that’s where the real problem lies.

"ChipIn is a Web-based service that simplifies the process of collecting money from groups of people."

not bad at all... GroupWise is evolution-happy, Elluminate is Java based...

"There are also GroupWise connectors for ... Novell Evolution." whew! I was afraid of some horrible enterprise calendar at kumc.edu

October 1, 2009. I guess I've been under a rock again.

oh no! "This is an archived copy of Fundable from 2006. Fundable is closed."

interesting list archive

"The failure rate is near zero"

it might be nice if more Americans learned other languages, but having one dominant language in the programming community _is_ more efficient...

"perhaps business meetings should be held standing up anyway. They’d be less likely to drag on until peoples’ bladders exploded and/or the Aeron chairs collapsed from the accumulated obesity."

"Google Wave was built to work on Google Chrome. Accessing it through Firefox, IE, or other browsers reduces its functionality and makes the application grind to a near halt."

on the "consensus by exhaustion" anti-pattern