There are a limited number of profound statements in this world
Wrong. While it’s not healthy for projects to spend forever arguing about philosophy or politics, community is important for a project to be successful, which is why of the following 2 statements, I prefer the Apache way.
Apache: “community is more important than code”
OpenJDK: “OpenJDK is all about code. Actual bits that do something. The opposite of politics.”
(note, I’m not endorsing any specific ‘politicization’ at OpenJDK, I have no idea who/what is going on there).
I’m in Canada for the W3C WS-Policy Interop. (I’m here to do some WS-Addressing Metadata Interop testing), and to confound my expectations (given how cold it was in February), it’s really, really warm.
So much so that I’m off to buy some shorts.
Your University friends are now parents.
[Updated] Iain commented suggesting I should have posted a picture… so here she is: Isla Jennifer Bethune. My Congratulations to Iain and Julie.
I’ve been involved in some security related discussions at work over the past few days. Whenever I spend more that about 30 mins thinking about it, my head gets near popping. It’s so difficult to make any kind of concrete statement with confidence. The basis of solid security would seem to be solid design which makes it easier to make concrete statements… but even then, you’d have to have confidence that the design got implemented correctly.
Last week Scotland voted and the SNP came out as the largest single party in the Scottish Parliament.
At work the topic came up today and I explained what I think will happen… The other parties will show remarkable unity in giving the SNP enough rope to hang itself in a minority government, stand back and watch. As will I.
P.S. The disaster that was 100,000 spoiled votes didn’t slip my notice, but there’s not much that can be done now… except learn from the mistake, something that, happily, there’s a lot of support for.
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