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Category: Technology

  • Linus Torvalds doesn’t read code any more

    Who would’ve thought? He leads an organization of 100s of developers, and doesn’t do much coding anymore? Although if you read to the end, you’ll find that he still codes, just not Linux kernel stuff. Well, the big thing is I don’t read code any more. When a patch has already gone through two people,…

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  • What HP’s cloud chief wants you to know about HP’s cloud

    What HP’s cloud chief wants you to know about HP’s cloud. All good and well, but is anybody still listening? HP will have to deliver, then we can talk again.

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  • Centralized vs Decentralized Version Control: 2010 vs 2012

    I guess what’s good enough for Linux is good enough for anything 🙂 However one interprets the data, however, the clear winner over the past two years has been Git. Almost half of the total change over the past two years is Git alone. If you’re looking for bets, then, based on this slice of…

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  • Long November: Google Left December Out Of Its Date Picker In Android Jelly Bean OS 4.2

    My Galaxy Nexus just got updated to Jelly Bean 4.2, and now this: December missing in date picker!

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  • What Programmers Want

    Following up on A Players – if you do happen to have some of them, here’s how to treat them: What Programmers Want. And why it’s all going to be better soon anyway: The end of management.

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  • On package management: Negating the downsides of bundling

    Ah the joys of packaging and distribution. And: isn’t (1) already part of Windows, at least since Windows 3.1? My proposal is to provide bundled applications but not statically linked, rather a directory containing the app and its dependencies, coupled with two things: (1) use of a linker and loader that prefer the bundled copy while…

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  • A Players

    A series of articles about A players in IT. I guess in Enterprise IT, we can be glad if we see B players at least from remote 😉 We all talk about recruiting “A Players,” but that’s not how the Valley actually works. Why Zuckerberg was Right. The Coming Collapse of Average.

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  • Why Apple and HTC settled their patent litigation

    Thoughtful commentary about why Apple and HTC settled their patent litigation: Sometimes it’s easier to just pay the money And: Both companies benefit from HTC’s ability to use Apple’s patented elements like slide-to-unlock, universal search, bounce scrolling, and scroll locking. HTC gets to make better products, and Apple allows one of Samsung’s only real challengers…

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  • Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption Kickstarter

    You bet I signed up for Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption by the Quest for Glory designers: turn-based role-playing, adventure puzzle game for PC that […] will fill a niche left by modern day shooters and action games via Quest for Glory developers bring back old school adventures with Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption.

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  • Rackspace versus Amazon

    There’s a place for different business strategies also in the cloud services space. Derrick Harris explains how Rackspace is positioning itself as all about Service and Open Ecosystem (no lock-in), whereas Amazon is all about Ultimate Scalability using a Proprietary Stack. Rackspace is busy building a Hadoop service, giving the company one more avenue to…

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