by Dave | Jul 19, 2009 | Improving Apps
The company (or project) that figures out how to do this will win. That’s what Matt Asay says on his CNet blog. What to know what he said that about? He said that open source projects need to: determine what average users want and then to translate this into...
by Dave | Jul 6, 2009 | Improving Apps
Take a look at this Youtube video- you’ll notice that many of the features Steve Jobs demos back in 1992 (according to Wikipedia) are features of Mac OS X. Certainly much has been said about Apple acquiring Next and making NextStep into the Mac OS X. But notice...
by Dave | Jun 11, 2009 | Improving Apps
I am prejudiced. Being a web developer makes me think this is the easiest part. Maybe it’s not for you. That’s OK. But get a real website. Hopefully, you’re using the great SourceForge.net site to manage your project. Good news- they’ll let you...
by Dave | Jun 10, 2009 | Improving Apps
There’s a line in “You’ve Got Mail” with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan where an observation is made about the ridiculous number of choices are involved in buying coffee at the little coffee shop. I don’t know about that, since I don’t...
by Dave | Jun 4, 2009 | Improving Apps
As I read Matt Asay’s blog post this morning on the use of proprietary tools in the advocacy of open source ones, I recognize that my foray into the Mac world changed me quite a bit. Almost from day one using a Mac I was shelling out money to get an app. They...
by Dave | May 20, 2009 | Improving Apps
Strangely enough, an open source developer seems to be doing just that- he’s adding an exclusion that forbids someone he’s in a legal argument with to use the open source project he develops. I first saw this mentioned on the ZDNet Blogs which pointed to...
