Cycle Gap

There have been some discussions about why there is so little code contribution from Indian programmers to free software/open source project...

Marc Canter says about Chandler: Three years later and at least $5M Chandler hits version .6 . Man oh man what we could do with that sort o...

The Nerd TV interview with Andy Hertzfeld contains another interesting bit. According to Don Knuth, MacPaint was possibly the best program...

I remember buying the Eazel T-shirt to show my appreciation for the folks who had shown the earliest signs of good taste in the free deskto...

I remember 37 signals vaguely as the company that the Ruby on Rails guy works for and they seem to generate quite a buzz from time to time ...

Great post from Bruce Eckel on consulting. His definition: "I think consulting is when you have some kind of special expertise -- com...

From an "Ask Slashdot" posting titled "Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal ?" , I found this gem posted by Pope Be...

A few interesting points ( mostly paraphrased) from a forty minute interview with Joel Spolsky on software writing: Most software writi...

Your brain does not use RPC to talk to your pancreas. -Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com The talk titled E-commerce at the interplanetary scal...

Miguel explains in an interview why J2EE has such a stranglehold in the application server market: There is a segmentation of the applica...

Following the excellent presentation by Michael Tiemann at the MySQL user's conference organized by O'Reilly media, itconversations ...

The peerless ITConversations.com features a talk by Michael Tiemann of RedHat, formerly of Cygnus and the guy who first wrote the GNU C++ ...

Dave Winer in a podcast explaining the evolution of RSS makes a interesting remark about working groups: What happens when you put togethe...

Kiran Jonnalagadda has listed the links to the online version s of the articles that form the chapters in Joel Spolsky's book , The Be...

Sriram Krishnan lets off some steam about grades and getting a job in software companies. I have to agree with him and also sadly note that...