• Open Source Desktop Debate

    Posted on March 21, 2004

    There’s an interesting debate going on within the GNOME and Mono communities. The main thread is a debate between Havoc Pennington and Miguel de Icaza. Lots of other people have contributed to the conversation, but here’s a list of some of the main posts (I may have missed some messages... [Read More]

  • Effects of Size on Physically Distributed Groups

    Posted on March 20, 2004

    I don’t have much time to comment right now, but this study of “Effects of Team Size on Participation, Awareness, and Technology Choice in Geographically Distributed Teams” makes for interesting reading.

  • mo:Blog

    Posted on March 18, 2004

    Brian Cantoni has a post about mo:Blog, a mobile blogging application that looks to be a lot more feature rich than my Vagablog application. I’ll have to fool around with it at some point, it says it can even upload binary attachments (like images). That definitely kicks ass in general,... [Read More]

  • Intellectual Property Protections

    Posted on March 18, 2004

    Larry Lessig gave a presentation on why the protection of IP is important for the creative process. It sounds like it was the same set of material that he tried out on us over at Stanford. Lessig has a new book on the market called The Future of Ideas, something... [Read More]

  • Link Blog

    Posted on March 17, 2004

    I put a new area up at Bitsplitter, the Bitsplitter Link Blog. “So what’s the difference between the normal blog and the link blog?” one might be expected to ask. Well the link blog is for short mentions of things that I want to come back and look at when... [Read More]

  • Havoc Pennington comments about The Linux Desktop

    Posted on March 17, 2004

    Havoc Pennington posted an entry in his weblog about picking a language/architecture/platform for Linux desktop development. I found the post as a whole to be very informative. I think his observations about needing to proceed with a completely unencumbered set of tools and technology are right on: [Read More]

  • Video on Demand

    Posted on March 16, 2004

    I just got back from dinner with a friend who’s working at Akimbo. I hadn’t heard about the system before, but he says it has turned out quite well. It’s a video on demand system with actual content available. Unlike the video on demand systems being setup by cable companies,... [Read More]

  • Why Functional Programming Matters

    Posted on March 16, 2004

    I found the paper Why Functional Programming Matters linked off a page about Haskell. Both make some interesting points about the general features of functional programming. In particular I like the comparison between lazy evaluation and pipes, which is something I haven’t run across before in descriptions of that feature.... [Read More]

  • South by Southwest Transcripts

    Posted on March 16, 2004

    The South by Southwest Music and Media Conference is currently going on in Austin TX. I wasn’t able to make it, but I’ve been hanging around in a couple of Freenode.net IRC channels and listening to the discussions. Fast Company has a series of transcripts that they’ve uploaded to their... [Read More]

  • Interview with Jeff Dionne

    Posted on March 15, 2004

    There’s an interview with Jeff Dionne up at Linux devices. Jeff did much of the original work on uClinux, a port of Linux that first supported architectures without memory management units. He’s been around for quite a while, and I try to listen to what he has to say. I... [Read More]