solvitur ambulando
Big and small things I’m working on.
I don't consider myself a huge cloud promoter, but articles like "Experts: Cloud Brings Vulnerabilities" from Defense News drive me crazy. If you read as many articles about IT as I do, you'll recognize this character: the Reactionary Skeptic. It's great work, if you can get it. I've been guilty of it myself. The formula … Continue reading Federal Cloud and the Reactionary Skeptic
It's not going down. It's not going up. It's basically the same as it's been since 1950.
Not sure I care for this, but here's what my lightning talk for opensource.com looked like when we were recording it. Click on the photos to see the whole gallery on Facebook.
Matt Micene has a great example of the confusion that comes when you start thinking about IT infrastructures as a collection of components. It's a great starting point for a discussion of commoditization, resuable parts, and lock-in in an IT shop. The word "components" is being used a little too casually. I'll take responsibility for … Continue reading Components and Commodities
Josh Tauberer is the proprietor of one of the finest open government tools available: GovTrack. It's a database that includes information on every current and former member of Congress, every roll call vote in history, and every bill since 1973. It's pretty handy, and GovTrack has done a fantastic job making all that information easily … Continue reading GovTrack’s Modest Proposal
Yes, I'm finally releasing all this code I have sloshing around on my hard drive. Here's the code on GitHub for my version of the really great Comet theme from Frost Press.
In Part I, we discussed the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC)'s attempt to hobble the open source Accumulo project in the DOD. They directed the Department's CIO to jump through a number of reporting hoops before Accumulo would be allowed inside the DOD, and directed the Accumulo team to upstream their work into related open source … Continue reading The Accumulo Challenge, Part II
You'll notice that I post my tweets on this blog as well. I don't do that by hand. I have a little robot that does it for me. I finally got around to posting the code, which is an unmerciful fork of Tim Beck's wonderful Twitter Digest. I call it Twitter Sucker, and you can get it … Continue reading Twitter Sucker
Unless everyone in the world gets a pair [of Google Glasses] and simultaneously agrees this is no longer weird, what functionality is worth being the guy with the robo-face? – Gizmodo on the Google IO announcements. I enthusiastically endorse the whole rant.
Speaking only for myself, I think Tim Lee has the right idea here. The EFF launched a campaign for reform, but software patents don't need to be reformed, they need to be abolished. Sign his petition here.
a technology job is no excuse 