Archive for July, 2005

July 22, 2005 Off

Junior Goes to War

By morgamic in Personal

I couldn’t help myself.
Sometimes war is more fun when it’s between a bunch of pussies.

July 18, 2005 Off

AMO Framework

By morgamic in Mozilla

Most of the template and db framework is in place for AMO v2.0. I struggled a bit with how to relate Smarty and PEAR::DB objects to the rest of the modules. After a lot of tinkering, I ended up deciding to not instantiate new ones with every module, but rather use global instances [...]

July 13, 2005 Off

The Pope and the Bazaar

By morgamic in OSL, Society, Technology

Credit Eric Raymond for writing The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which is an excellent dive into the strengths and weaknesses of open source.
Like any written work, it comes with many interpretations. Raymond’s recommendations are awesome and should be recognized as lessons learned from the Linux software development model.
However, it’s no complete guide from point [...]