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I was just putting my six year-old son to bed, I had sang him a song and was idly chatting him to calmness. Somehow, the conversation turned to homework and then to money and then to the kinds of jobs people can get, relative to the amount of homework they get done. “You could be…

Kimble Felton, doorstep musician, lean and mean is in. In restraint he bookbind, turning point stakes. Summer is almost here, be ready. So exorcism my expiate optimum, answer them. For a sabbath and the work that he died; not known them to accuse. Summer is almost here, be ready. A snow advisory means that periods…

(For Ieuan) There once was a boy who had the small notion to build a big boat and sail the ocean. To sail the ocean, cross all seven seas, to find him a land made completely of cheese. So he gathered up nails and timber and tar and planned on the boat that would carry…

It’s never full, finished, or ready Build processes. Create living documents. There will always be the desire to add more content, refine a feature, tweak the artwork. It is imperative to create minimum viable product and deploy. Building for perfection leads to feature creep, missed deadlines, and irrelevant complexity. Software doesn’t degrade, but the universe…

When I was a wee lad of nine, I had a teacher named Mr. Jones. A short, portly Welshman, he was typical of the species: hairy-faced, pot-bellied and prone to restrained violence. His notoriety held our younger minds suspended in fear as we approached the requisite age for his class, as he was known for…

This is an open response to Darl McBride’s “Open Letter to the Open Source Community” of September 9, 2003. His text is blockquoted. The original is available at www.sco.com. Darl McBride is President and CEO of SCO. I should also add that I have never built anything of note, I’m just a regular guy who likes…