Cycle Gap

I was listening to a fascinating presentation (video)by Ivan Krstić , the director of security architecture of the One Laptop Per Child ( ...

But the Apache web server configuration file is pretty close. I once heard one of the founders of the Apache project confess that, the only ...

Mitch Kapor's wife Freada was in charge of HR at Lotus in the early years. (As he is at pains to point out, they did not become romantic...

"We sat down one morning," recalls Steele. "I was at the keyboard, and he was at my elbow," says Steele. "He was pe...

The odds of finding truly beautiful code in most production systems seem to be on par with the odds of finding a well-read copy of IEEE Tran...

If you are not one of the founders of a startup , you really need to aware of this. I wish someone had reminded me about this :-( . Startups...

That's one of the dirty little secrets of blogging: the discussion in the comments are often better than the original entry. ...

Recently, at work, I had to use the XML-RPC.Net library and couldn't help smiling at this tongue in cheek answer in the FAQ section. Why...

I was reading an article Indian IT biggies losing out to MNCs , when I came across a very interesting and insightful comment by Chanakya. Ye...

Subversion developers Ben Collins Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick in a talk titled How Open Source Projects Can Survive Poisonous People (And ...

There are some great quotes from Mac hacker, Andy Hertzfeld in Scott Rosenberg's book Dreaming in Code. "My style is to get someth...

At age 29, Jepsen found herself suffering from blistering headaches, confined to a wheelchair, and sleeping ...

Financially, writing science fiction is to writing technical books as writing technical books is to having a "real" programming jo...

I have always wondered why Zeroconf adoption has been so poor. Stuart Cheshire of Apple who pioneered this technology, briefly explains on...

Notes from some of the talks/discussions, that I attended at FOSS.in, held in Bangalore between 24-26'Nov 2006. Suparna Bhattacharya, th...

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 ...