I attended the BayPiggies meeting where Drew Perttula talked about his lighting system, light9 tonight.

The crowd was a little smaller since there was no free dinner, but there was a pretty good turnout. What a small world, Drew works two buildings away from SpikeSource at PDI, and I play …

Previously I've blogged about Safari's fork of KHTML and the expertise of Apple's browser developers. With the recent news of Konqueror becoming ACID2 compliant, I yearned for more info.

I just conducted an interview with Ivor Hewitt and Allan (carewolf), the developers who merged in Apple's recent ACID2 changes into …

Not quite sure how to react to this. The only reason for the "switch" as I understand from reading the keynote is a speed bump. Since MacOSX will only run on Apple sanctioned x86 hardware, is there really a difference if it is not ppc inside? There "shouldn't" be a …

I attended a discussion by Peter Yared, CEO of Active Grid sponsored by SDForum tonight.

It looks like he has a pretty revolutionary vision of app servers (the java folks might be a little disappointed). Among current IT folks there is a groundswell of support for using LAMP (Linux Apache …

It appears that Google has a new way of recruiting, paying students to become open source developers.

I'm thinking about this Summer of Code thing and the only reason I can think of for doing it (other than not being evil and maitaining geek karma) is for recruiting. If google …

For those interested in testing and Open Source, my employer (SpikeSource) is throwing a TestFest on June 17th at our offices in Redwood City, CA. Our Test Upload Service allows you to test your code (open or closed source) against various platforms. Come eat our food, drink our drinks, try …

[forgive the lack of charts, my blogging service is in the middle of an upgrade] I've been thinking about another driver of features in Open Source software given the recent noise surrounding the harmony project.

I'll get back to harmony in a minute. First let's examine another Open Source java …

Considering the recent discussions about KHTML and its fork found in Safari, I thought I'd post about forks.

Are forks good or bad? Yes. One might argue that people should collaborate rather than fork. But doesn't most open source development actually happen by forking? (At least at a micro level …

I was talking with an Apache contributor today. He was lamenting that more of the users of his projects could contribute back, but did not. I asked what he believed were the reasons. We discussed two: One was work. People or their employers did not feel comfortable giving back. The …

I feel sorry for Java Swing apps sometimes (I don't want to get into a discussion about bloat here, cause I'm not really talking about it). Python is immune from it because it doesn't really have a gui library (I've even heard Guido say that guis are provided for better …