Marc Canter has penned an AlwaysOn article discussing the finer points of open API’s as they relate to today’s web and its future incarnations. It’s worth reading if you have an interest in Web 2.0ish commentary. To provide an opinion on Marc’s question, Should they adopt these tools and standards, painfully cannibalizing their existing revenue ...

That quote can be attributed to Bob Shrimp, Oracle’s VP of Technology Marketing. Although, I bet a few VC’s out there have been known to wear the ‘hippie’ seal of approval. It was made in a Investor’s Business Daily article talking about open-source successes and the impact they’re having on traditional software verticals. Mark Fluery ...

Just got home from participating in the 25th Annual Terry Fox Run. Was a nice day for a run, reason enough to get me out of bed earlier than the customary 10 or 11:00 wake-up call on Sundays. The run itself was about 7.5km and there was a ton of people out walking, running, rollerblading, ...

A couple days ago I attended the local linux user group’s presentation on Ubuntu. It was given by Corey Berger, a member of the Ubuntu community contributing to its documentation and laptop testing efforts. I’ve been having a lot of problems with my Toshiba laptop as of late, it’s been spontaineously powering off or locking ...

Rebecca Parsons has written an article advocating that successful Enterprise Architects should consider joining the development teams they’re working with. Enterprise Architecture groups often get separated from day to day development. This can lead to their knowledge of development work getting out of date and development teams not taking a broad company-wide perspective. Having seen ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope. An incredible individual, one of Canada’s greatest, I challenge you all to get out on September 18th and participate in an event near you. About Terry Fox Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community ...

For some time I’ve been wanting to try out the ‘Beagle‘ desktop searching engine on my linux desktop. There’s an article/review of it over on LinuxForums. What is Beagle? Beagle is a desktop search engine written by Nat Friedman (of Gnome/Ximian) fame. It is written in C# using Mono and Gtk#. The indexing is handled ...

Very interesting post over on Scripting News. For those following the details, this might get tiring. But for those wanting to catch up, John Battelle has done a good job covering the clawing and scratching in the wake of Google’s hiring of China expert Kai-Fu Lee away from Microsoft, which we first reported here. First, ...

I tend to agree with Marty over at The Wry Tradesman. Most software development projects have developers as the largest group of people within it, and they are engaged for the longest time on the project. They also tend to do the same things over and over again many times every day. Write a test, ...

Evidently, Future Shop (Canadian equivalent of Best Buy) was running a dorm room challenge this past week at various locations across the country. Pictures from the Vancouver event. What is a dorm room challenge? They put 6 people in a plexiglass enclosure on the sidewalk outside a store. They filled said enclosure with all kinds ...