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Sorry planet people. I didn't think last night when I posted the pan-o-rama in my blog entry. It's now appropriately thumbnailed.

posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 at 17:59 | permanent link

Bryce had his wedding a couple of weekends ago out on the Oregon Coast. Beautiful weather and beaches made for a wonderful time. Now he didn't blog about it, so that makes me believe that we should choose a random entry and everyone give him a congrats there (I gave him over a week to do it on his own, that's like a billion-gazillon-years Internet time). Nobody tell him I organized this.

I took this pan-o-rama on the beach. It isn't perfect, but I do think it turned out pretty good for being hand held with a point-and-shoot camera.

posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 at 02:29 | permanent link

This year I'm going to be giving a talk at Ubuntu Live called "Ubuntu Desktop Technologies." I'm excitied about the talk because I think it will help to address an issue that we have in Open Source. No, not desktop technologies, we've got lots of great work there. What I'm concerned about is the "where do I start" problem that many developers face when starting with Open Source.

When a developer starts to look at Open Source I think that they end up in a situation similar to The Paradox of Choice. There are so many libraries that do different things in a variety of ways; the whole landscape starts to become scary instead of empowering (which is what I think many Open Source veterans would describe it as). Because no developer is ever given the time to learn all the technologies they want, the new Open Source developer is forced to either guess at what seems the most useful or just port over some library they know.

With this talk I'm going to quickly cover some of the major libraries so that there is less guessing and more developing. Helping guide people towards the technologies that have become best practicies in the free desktop today. I'm excited about it and I hope that it will lead to more developers being introduced to and sticking with Open Source instead of getting frustrated and leaving the party.

posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 at 18:04 | permanent link

In the time I've spent in LA I still can't get over the weather. It is beautiful and funny at the same time. I always joke that you can tell I'm new because I still check the weather. Probably the most exciting thing to happen this week is in the image.

posted on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 at 03:10 | permanent link