Posts tagged with "opensource"

"I just released 0.3.0 of my static blogging tool Sinor. Major new features in this release: Tags support Markdown can be used in archive pages Improved command line API It can be installed either by pip install sinor or by downloading it directly from Github."

"Almost a year and a half ago, I wrote about how I had built my own blog frameworky thing. In that post I wrote that I was happy with the result. Unfortunately, it didn’t last long. The problem was that the tool I had built did too much. It found all the markdown files, converted them to HTML using Mustache templates and wrote the result to other files. All paths etcetera were hardcoded, the code was tied to the content in a way I strongly diskliked."

"At least in the server world, Linux has won. Here in Sweden, Microsoft has an inexplicable stronghold, even in the server room. The last time Craig Larman, Valtechs Chief Scientist, was here he noted that nowhere did he see as large proportion of server side windows as in Sweden - and Denmark. I don’t know what makes swedes pay for stuff others get for free. Perhaps the high taxes have made us used to money disappearing?"

"I most certainly hope that James Gosling was quoted out of context in this article. The way he talks about open-source is comes out very … Balmery, which is disturbing. Why is he talking about open source as a place where “any old person could check in stuff” - that is not the way it is done and he knows it. He should know it. Which is also why enterprise customers are not running away from well-kept open source projects like Linux and Tomcat."