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We all can cite many open source and even some “closed” source projects that we use and interact with daily.  How did they start?  Most of them started out of the passions of a single individual, but how did that spread?  How did people find out about the projects, how did others start building on [...]

You don’t really want to know, but I’ve spent my morning fighting spam.  It’s a periodic activity, makes me almost want to go back to the MailFrontier days when I could focus on these topics as a full time thing.  Though on the advantage side I can use a lot more off the shelf components [...]

RThe WSJ just did an article about the pointlessness of performance reviews it’s interesting to see that the posting I wronge a long time ago about Performance Reviews. Shared many of the same points: Performance doesn’t determine pay Objectivity is subjective It disrupts team work Managers should go coach some kids sports and really understand [...]

I’ve never been a big fan of OpenID, it feels like an interesting solution to a problem, but not the solution that makes sense.  For starters it requires me to learn something new, which as an “average” user I don’t want to do. Quick education for those not familiar with OpenID.  OpenID allows you to [...]