11 May 2002
Sat, 11 May 2002
Dave Winer nails the software-gardening analogy
Dave Winer says:
Software, done properly, is more like gardening than it is like warfare. Plant a seed, nurture it, show other people how to plant seeds, encourage them to plant them in your ground, always be thankful, and split the profits. [Scripting News]
Exactly. This is precisely how I viewed my building RCS Proxy. Chris Wenham planted the seed. Others nurtured it. In the process, these guys showed me how to plant the seeds, and by virtue of the fact that Dave brought Userland back from the dead when their servers were dying, he encouraged me to plant them in Userland's ground (Radio and RCS). I'm now getting mail from around the world from folks trying the web service. And none of them are arguing about whether the service should be RESTful or RPC-like. They're just using it. And that's the way it should be.
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sunBow - a Cocoon IDE
Matthew Langham announces the future availability of an IDE for Cocoon. Judging from the screenshots, it appears to be based on Eclipse. [beblogging.com]
This is really exciting to me if for no other reason than I remember discussing the market opportunity for a cocoon IDE with a friend of mine in the late 1999, early 2000 timeframe. Now that someone has done it, I'll have to take a look. Ultramod!
Posted at: 10:30 | permalink
Xopus open source web site
Here's the Xopus open source web site for those who may not have seen it. This is the XML/XSLT WYSIWYG editor in the browser technology that I've talked about previously.
Posted at: 10:18 | permalink
RIAA distribution and promotion monopolies
This article makes some interesting points about web radio rates. [winterspeak.com]
Posted at: 09:40 | permalink
