Open source licensing decision tree.

Analysis of Diebold's unintentionally disclosed voting machine software.

Great video on the creative process by Ira Glass (This American Life). The main point is that if you want to make really good work, you need create and then discard much of it. It's only through sheer volume that can you generate a steady stream of good work.

This is why editors and collaborators are so important to the creative process.

Quoted:
- It's time to kill. It's time to enjoy the killing. Because, by killing, you will make something else even better live.
- Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
- All radio/television production is trying to be crap.

A Windows glitch on an airline gate display got me to thinking about annoying software.

Reading this now and really enjoying it! It's basically the story of the Chandler project (Mitch Kapop, Andy Hertzfeld, et. al.). Reminds me of Soul of a New Machine. I like that there is a lot of context ranging from the Memex, Doug Englebart, Lotus Agenda, Mythical Man Month.

The theme of the book is trying to understand why software is "hard" and project schedules can be so difficult to predict.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software: Scott Rosenberg: Books

New site for StartPad.org (using Drupal)

Explanation of the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern. Some intereresting links from here to different frameworks that implement MVC - including a couple of JavaScript frameworkI have not heard of: Archetype (French?), and JavaScript MVC.

I thought Ruby on Rails would be more prominent in this article as the "hot new thing" based on MVC, but it just has a single link in the article now.

Quoted: Launchpad is a free software hosting and development website. We make it easy to collaborate across multiple projects.