Have you ever been reading something that you are enjoying when suddenly you come across something which is so stupid that you lose all confidence in the author and can no longer take anything they write seriously? It happened to me this morning as I was reading the introduction to Open Source 2.0. In the… Continue reading Unreliable Authors
Dixonsvision
A new word for the 21st century. Many people now own widescreen TVs. Most new TV programmes are made in widescreen. However TV stations still like to broadcast some older programmes that were made before programmes were made in widescreen. This gives you two options. You can either watch the programme in the correct aspect… Continue reading Dixonsvision
Hear From Your MP
The latest site from those nice people at My Society is called Hear From Your MP. The idea is simple (like most good ones) – you give them your name, email address and postcode and they add you to a list of people interested in hearing from your local MP. When they get twenty names… Continue reading Hear From Your MP
Interesting Open Source Books
A couple of interesting books on Open Source Software that I’ve read recently. Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software should be essential reading for anyone involved in an Open Source project (or planning to get involved in an Open Source project). Fogel has been an important contributer to a number of major Open Source projects… Continue reading Interesting Open Source Books
Web Frameworks Night – Report
So last night was the Web Frameworks NIght. A great time had by all. Many thanks to the organisers. We had talks on three frameworks – Catalyst, Django and Ruby on Rails. My overwhelming impression was how similar all three frameworks are. There really seems to be little to differentiate them. As always the Perl… Continue reading Web Frameworks Night – Report
Java Programmers Embrace Ruby
Bruce Tate’s book Beyond Java has been published and there’s quite a lot of publicity for it appearing on the web. For example this article by Chris Adamson on the OnJava site. In the article Adamson interviews a number of well-known Java programmers about the future of Java. The replies seem pretty unanimous that Java’s… Continue reading Java Programmers Embrace Ruby
The New Commentariat
There’s an interesting piece in today’s Guardian about the British political blogging scene. They interview eight people who they consider major political bloggers from the UK. Nice to see that it’s in G2 (the cover story no less) and not the technology section. Of course the downside is that I didn’t already have all of… Continue reading The New Commentariat
Spying on You
In the interests of full disclosure, I should point out that I’ve started spying on you all. A couple of days ago I added Google Analytics tracking code to a few sites I run, including this one. So now I can look at loads of pretty graphs telling me who you are, where you are,… Continue reading Spying on You
London Web Frameworks Night (Update)
The London Web Frameworks night has proved to be very popular. So popular, in fact, that the organisers have had to change venue. It will now take place in the New Cavendish Street campus of Westminster University. See Dean’s post for more details. This means that signup has been re-opened for the time being. But… Continue reading London Web Frameworks Night (Update)
Mentioned in Dispatches
Oh look. Evidence that people are actually reading this site. A piece from last week was mentioned in the latest Britblog Roundup.