I greatly enjoyed Zak Greant's keynote talk at OpenWeb 2008 on The Age of Literate Machines in which he reminded us of the many attempts by rulers and government over the ages to curtail freedoms such as the ones defining "Free" sof...read more

I spent some time over the past couple of weeks writing some PHP code to support static code analysis and collection of metrics. It's very much a work in progress, but if anyone is interested, it can be found on the Bryght public SVN repository, at https://svn.bryght.com/dev...read more

I just checked in again at Ohloh, a site which gathers, analyses and presents information about various open source projects on the web. Dries blogged about this a few months ago in his post on CMS codebase comparisons.

Something that seems to be new at Ohloh since my last visit is a box that presents an estimate of the cost of a given project's codebase (using the basic COCOMO model of software costing). ...read more

It's been almost a year since I downloaded the trial version of the NetNewsWire RSS Newsreader and took it for a spin. Today I downloaded the latest copy and plunked down my $29.95 to activate it. Boris was right... it's indispensable, though I guess it's taken me up until now to get to that point...read more

I've been long overdue for some sysadmin house cleaning - cleaning up my backup drives, and organizing the hundreds of Gigs of data that I've managed to convince myself are important...read more