The Covenant - A New Approach to Open Source Cooperation
With a huge portions of the Internet & a huge number of devices relying on opensource software (Operating Systems, Web Servers, Mail Servers, Browsers) and even commercial closed source projects relying on many opensource software (libraries, source code management systems, build systems etc. with liberal licenses), no one can underestimate the importance of opensource software.
However opensource is still an evolving model with many questions & a ground of many experiments. This one sounds like an interesting experiment in licensing & copyrights.
A beer can to Amplify your Wifi signal!
I know beer works for me, I got to see if the can works for my Wifi. I cant wait to have a beer and try the trick at home.
The real-world Cyborgs. How far away is Cyborg World?
Why the new guy can't code
This Tech Crunch post by John Evans has very interesting insights on Hiring people for Development.
… I think there are parallels between technological development and evolution. I obviously do not believe in Intelligent Design when it comes to biology (and I think anybody who does is woefully badly educated), but after all, I often think that “intelligent design” is much overrated in technology too. Many technical improvements really do seem to be about more “organic” developments, and very few are fully designed ahead of time. In fact, I think most interesting technical problems are too complicated to “design” for - the way you get to a solution is very much through incremental improvements and trial and error.
Getting closer to nature…
Its not about green-living or protecting the environment (though it could be related). Its about scientific research learning from nature and finding solutions imitating it. Reflecting this are the two articles published recently, one about Self powered parts becoming electronic mainstay and another about Self assembling photovoltaic cells.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
scardf -Scala RDF API (Jena façade) @ Google Code
Easier (?) RDF manipulation, that’s the goal ;-)
(via:late2theparty:)
Source: late2theparty
High-level Best Practices for SCM
Has some very useful advice for those sailing the SCM boat.
For posts that are techy / matters a little grey that I din't want to be drowning in randomness.
