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Sometimes I want to declare victory and go home. Of course, that’s usually an admission of defeat, but I really think that with news like Verizon Embraces Linux, that the penetration of Open Source into every sector of computer-using society (which would be … everything) is inevitable. We’ve started the snowball down the hill, and…

Last month I was honored to be a keynote speaker at the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) annual meeting. Open Source has become a major topic on campuses, not just the enterprise, and I was delighted to meet with some of the leaders in setting the agenda for software engineering education. When…

I recently got myself a Flickr Pro account, and have been using Flickr for more of my photos. I find myself more and more annoyed at the rough edges in the Flickr user interface. For example, when you want to delete a tag from something, you click on the [x] to the right of the…

For the past several years I’ve printed various documents at home by sending them to my wife Amy with a request “Please print…”. And after several years we both know that Adobe Acrobat version 5 for Mac works far, far better than any subsequent release from Apple or Adobe, at least for the pdf documents…

Many, many programs written in C or C++ use a file called “config.h” which contains #define statement that control the compilation of the program. These programs are also nearly always built using ‘make’. I claim that these two attributes are in conflict with each other. Or, in layman’s terms, “config.h sucks”. The problem is that…

The Open Source Initiative ran the first Open Source Awards, but when we dropped them, Google and O’Reilly picked up the idea (yay!). Nominations are currently open, but close in a few short weeks.