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Monthly Archives: October 2007

open season interview with mark shuttleworth

Monday, October 8, 2007

Just listened to this interesting interview about Open Source project management, virtualization, Ubuntu. A couple quotes:
If you want your open source project to succeed…you absolutely have to have modularity.
–Matt Asay
He was talking about modularity that encourages developer participation - and they went on to talking about Open Office and the problems with their […]

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new laptop bag

Friday, October 5, 2007

I got a new laptop a week ago, so I needed a new carrying case. The magnetic button on the top might have been a bad idea. Next project is a neoprene-ish bag for the older laptop.
A couple more pics on flickr.

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PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 - talk descriptions are up!

Friday, October 5, 2007

I just finished updating the Talks page for PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007. There are so many great folks giving talks — Neil Conway, Josh Berkus, Robert Treat, David Fetter and Robert Hodges are all flying in. It’ll be great to see Josh, Robert and David again! I’m excited to meet Neil and Robert, both […]

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coders for software engineers

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

I read this article about computer science education this morning -
Software Engineering and the Cause of the CS Enrollment Crisis
I propose that our current undergraduate computer science programs are designed to produce coders for software engineers.
Yeah. This is so true! I immediately thought of Shelley Powers’ comments about what we should do with computer science […]

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participation in open source, any worse than the rest of the industry?

Monday, October 1, 2007

One criticism I’ve heard about my article is that I should have addressed the computing industry as a whole, rather than targeting Open Source. That the problem of women participating is much more general.
I chose to write about Open Source because that’s my community. I installed Slackware in 1995 and learned about operating systems from […]

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