what’s cool about flickr?
here's a nice article on flickr. to be fair, i've never uploaded any pictures to flickr. i've read lots about it and have been particularly interested in it. but my…
Xtech Conference – Proposed abstract
this is what i submitted to the Xtech conference Designing an open system This paper describes an open system as an approach to creating web content that is easy to…
an index of objects
now, i'm beginning to think the best way to describe an open system is one in which the context is not part of it. it's literally an index of objects. …
business relationships
i've been thinking a lot about business relationships lately. i am often troubled by simple common practices in business. For example, a potential client is often fearful of saying how…
seeing the whole system
so, it's been two weeks and i'm still thinking about the abstract on open systems design. the emphasis is on 'producing content'. period. it was almost like i wanted to…
Social Software
I find that Tom Coates' definition of Social Software is missing one of the more important aspects of Social Software. It really isn't about software. It that has more to…
On Becoming an Open Source Person
Comment for William Grosso’s weblog: On Becoming an Open Source Person: i agree with you that there are two developer camps. But i define the camps a little differently. The…
XMLeditor continues…
the XMLeditor continues... we've extended the xpath matching to understand this kind of query: /projects/project[@node='someProject']/files/file[@id='123'] i know it's a pretty simple requirement, but then we never set out on this…
XMLeditor
the XMLeditor has been really interesting to work on lately. it seems to combine all of the approaches to parsing xml using an event parser, which alan and i have…
Software documentation
Software documentation is one of the missing pieces of the software game. So many systems are not well documented. It's also not really part of the budget of most systems. …