Alas, you can’t and you won’t. But wait, I have a solution. Knit ties. No, hear me out before you go to have ‘a little work done.’ Knit ties are imperfect by nature. The knot slips a bit. They fly in the wind. They pull over time. They have a variable shape. They are casual, … Continue reading Luciano Barbera on knit ties
Category: What I’m Thinking About
Big and small things I’m working on.
The Moral Dimension of Software Patent Reform
A legal regime that’s practically impossible to comply with, and which imposes potentially crippling liability on infringers, is incompatible with the rule of law. — Timothy B. Lee
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FedRAMP for the impatient.
FedRAMP is how clouds will be authorized for use in the Federal government. With it, the government to authorize a cloud for use just once, instead of forcing each agency to authorize the same cloud over and over. The FedRAMP program office published a CONOPS document, which sketches out how everything will work. It's tedious. … Continue reading FedRAMP for the impatient.
RESTful APIs explained by an angry German.
Mencken on Rabbits
Zoologically speaking, there are no native rabbits in the United States; they are all hares. But the early colonists, for some unknown reason, dropped the word hare out of their vocabulary, and it is rarely heard in American speech to this day. When it appears it is almost always applied to the so-called Belgian hare, … Continue reading Mencken on Rabbits
5 Minutes for Open Source in Government
In 5 minutes, you can make a difference: Upvote "Use and Contribute to Open Source" in the IT Shared Services Strategy. Add an application or use case to the CivicCommons Marketplace. Join Open Source for America, Mil-OSS, or Code for America. Got a another idea? Leave a comment!
The Open Source Shared First Opportunity: > $1.2 Billion
“A collaborative, analysis-based approach that leverages the implementation of robust enterprise governance, cross-enterprise portfolio governance, together with segment enterprise architecture, is imperative to ensuring IT efficiently and effectively supports the mission and business functions of a government agency,” DHS Chief Information Officer Richard Spires told a House committee on Friday morning (full transcript below). “A … Continue reading The Open Source Shared First Opportunity: > $1.2 Billion
Edward Docx recalls a fleeting, silent romance
...she was a woman and that I was a man and that this had been going on since the beginning of everything and that it would go on forever and that nothing else really mattered. [via The Independent.]
Thank you, Erica.
The sweetest from my perspective is that my friends Gunnar and Ingrid got engaged after an intervention from their dog Rose, who ferried the ring between the two. I've been lucky enough to know both of these two for years and I'm proud to have played a minor causal role in their relationship by introducing … Continue reading Thank you, Erica.
a technology job is no excuse 