Just got back from a super intense, super productive 1Society retreat last week in Staunton, Virginia. Despite the photographic evidence to the contrary, we got a lot of stuff done. More on this later. (KUX) The next stop on my summer road show is Cambridge, Massachusetts for WikiMania 2006. It starts this Friday, August [...]
Johannes Ernst will be speaking for the SDForum Collaboration SIG on, “Why User-Centric Identity Matters.” For those of you interested in finding out what’s going on in the Internet Identity space (answer: a heckuva lot) but have been too busy to read up on it, this talk is for you. Johannes will explain what user-centric [...]
Ruby On Rails has a philosophy of favoring convention over configuration. Its emphasis is on facilitating best practices rather than on supporting features, although it supports plenty. Martin Fowler calls it Opinionated Software, and he recently wrote a great post on the tension between being opinionated and supporting the needs of the larger community: [...]
Like everyone else in the world, I was stunned to see Zinedine Zidane headbutt Marco Materazzi in yesterday’s World Cup final. I mean really, are soccer players so unaccustomed to using their hands that they’ve forgotten how to throw a good old fashioned punch?! (KSX) Yes, it was incredibly dumb. But I loved Dr. [...]
C.W. Nevius wrote a column in the San Francisco Chronicle about the flopping in the World Cup, and includes a link to a hilarious parody of an Italian soccer practice. I don’t know what’s more egregious: world class athletes flopping or the fact that Nevius’s column made it to the front page. I find both [...]
