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- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Paine
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Building Successful Open Source Software OR maybe a community?
My good friend John Tynan from KJZZ in Arizona sent me a link to the video below today, and I love it because it talks as much about developing a productive community as it does about developing a good open source project.
I can't possibly say enough times how much I believe that the key to success in any such project is to have good people, a good direction, and good communication - in that order!
Enjoy this video, even though it is almost an hour long!
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Listen up: In this the first pocast in months Martin goes scouting for mullet and sea trout after a long summer which has been sunny and calm or cold and windy. It developed into a nice day at the beach with little fishing and no catching at all.
Hear the sounds here.
Presenting Mighty minnows: The father of English fishing literature, Izaak Walton, devotes two chapters of The Compleat Angler to chubs (or “cheven” in the archaic plural), and in one scene his Piscator takes pleasure in catching the largest one of a school of twenty to the amazement of his companions, Venator and Auceps.
Read chapter 6 here
Windows only: Free system tray utility TabsLock launches and focuses a new tab in Google Chrome (and Firefox... keep reading) at the press of your Caps Lock key to give you, as the download page aptly puts it, "low-thought, global keyboard access to web search and navigation." Considering how much time we spend on the web these days, a quick, easy shortcut for going straight to your browser (that's also just off the home row) makes a lot of sense. Still want to use Caps Lock from time to time? Shift+Caps Lock toggles regular Caps Lock behavior. Like the idea behind TabsLock but wish it worked for Firefox? Keep reading to download my own homespun solution for Firefox users.

