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
New eZ CEO quote sounds like he is just learning about WCM: http://www.cmswire.com/cms... . Probably OK since eZ needs exp in software business.
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
VirtualEnvironments - modwsgi - Support for Python virtual environments. - Project Hosting on Google Code - http://code.google.com/p...
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
Thinking that the Salesforce Migration Tool build.xml would be improved if XML comments were moved to description elements.
experimenting with google reader share. This + my lack of brightkite use is making me rethink my social media decisions http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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
@puf too funny! a little like test driven development but without the tests.