Seth Gottlieb

Really nice presentation on what to look for in the future of WCM. I really like Day Software's vision for the web and hope it comes true. However, their predictions are usually ambitious and forward thinking. I would adjust time expectations to 2011 or 2012. - Seth Gottlieb

This is an interesting idea of withholding commit access from new hires until they have proven themselves and gotten comfortable with the code. Until that point, they would create patches to be reviewed by an experienced developer. - Seth Gottlieb

Pointing mod_wsgi to a virtual environment. - Seth Gottlieb

Interesting article explaining the observation that proprietary software tends to get worse with each release and open source tends to get better. I agree that many of the commercial software applications that I use seem to have "peaked" several versions ago. I also agree that an open source committer team is more empowered than a commercial software architect to push features/enhancements out of scope. Jacob asserts that no commercial software company could resist pressure from IBM to support DB2 but Django does. However, I wonder if this trend is just a matter of software maturity and time. Most of the commercial software applications are older than the open source ones and have time to "jump the shark" with features that don't belong. Some FOSS programs will, no doubt, be tempted to add bad features after the good features have been added. The better projects will resist. Examples include Apache HTTPD and Struts. These projects started over when they were done. - Seth Gottlieb

I agree with that article is that opensource big power is that decision process. Remember the decision making process in tips ... ;) - Nicolas Dufour

any chance we could convince them to open source tips? - Seth Gottlieb

Introduction to the Haystack App. Looks interesting. API is similar to Django querysets. Pluggable search engine backends. Current choices consist of Solr, Whoosh, and Xapian. - Seth Gottlieb

Interesting article explaining the observation that proprietary software tends to get worse with each release and open source tends to get better. I agree that many of the commercial software applications that I use seem to have "peaked" several versions ago. I also agree that an open source committer team is more empowered than a commercial software architect to push features/enhancements out of scope. Jacob asserts that no commercial software company could resist pressure from IBM to support DB2 but Django does. However, I wonder if this trend is just a matter of software maturity and time. Most of the commercial software applications are older than the open source ones and have time to "jump the shark" with features that don't belong. Some FOSS programs will, no doubt, be tempted to add bad features after the good features have been added. The better projects will resist. Examples include Apache HTTPD and Struts. These projects started over when they were done. - Seth Gottlieb