Today’s Daily Source Code was a music video of a song by Geoff Smith called ‘Not on the Radio’. The video was created by his wife while he was out of town and stars his young daughter. Now this is a really cute video and a pretty good song to boot.
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What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source
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OnLamp had an excellent article yesterday called What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source. The articles pretty long, but well worth the read. While there are obvious differences in the two types of projects (like budgets and deadlines), I still believe that corporations can move closer to the OSS model of development and get major productivity increases.
Dan Bricklin: When The Long Tail Wags The Dog
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Dan Bricklin has a great essay on the Long Tail, Hyperdifferentiation and general purpose tools called When The Long Tail Wags The Dog. Dan recently appeared on an episode [ mp3 ] of the Gillmor Gang where they talk about the concepts outlined in the essay.
Chuck Norris Facts
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Our son Jacob has been reading this list of Chuck Norris Facts over the last few days. I have to admit, they’re pretty damn funny. My favorite: If you Google search "Chuck Norris getting his ass kicked" you will generate zero results. It just doesn’t happen.
Producing Open Source Software
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I’ve been browsing through Karl Fogels Producing Open Source Software book tonight after finding a reference to it on the Subversion mailing list. This looks like a great read. The book is available in PDF, HTML, or from Amazon.com. I just ordered my copy.
Bad Metaphor Podcast
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I found the Bad Metaphor podcast last night and thought it was really cool. The podcast is by John and Chris Campbell, a father and son who pick a topic and start to talk about it. Very cute.
Will people pay for radio shows on the net?
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Will people pay for radio shows on the net? – While I can see paying a subscription for satellite – and maybe a podcast aggregator, I don’t think I’d pay show for show for a podcast. Give me advertising any day …
tomcarroll.org » Blogability
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Sure, Tom the Architect starts blogging semi-regularly for a month and all of a sudden one of his posts gets linked to by Infoworld. Go figure.
Cool Frank Zappa Quote
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While reading the book The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa, I came across the following quote that is probably the coolest one I’ve ever heard. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible”. I’ll be posting a review of the book sometime soon, but I definitely wanted to write this quote down to remember it. There’s a whole slew of other quotes here.
Yahoo open sources UI Library and Design Patterns
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Yahoo has released their User Interface Libraries and Design Pattern Libraries to the development community. The User Interface Libraries are released under a BSD license, while the Design Pattern Libraries are released under Creative Commons Attribution License.
Bieber Labs 