Alex Barnett blog

Open Source in a SaaS World

About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?" came up in conversation. A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT industry's move to Software-as-a-Se

Posted: May. 15, 2008 11:01 PM

The Third Order of Order

I'm thoroughly enjoying David Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous (The Power of the New Digital Disorder). Weinberger has a canny knack for taking a subject matter I feel I'm already familiar with and yet illuminating and expressing facets of it

Posted: May. 9, 2008 07:45 AM

Classic Raymond Chen

Here's some classic Raymond Chen: "Apparently I've been promoted by mistake all these years".

Posted: May. 7, 2008 11:44 AM

Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE

I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson, discussing FREE. The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy; the Attention E

Posted: May. 3, 2008 12:51 PM

Designing Web APIs - Twitter Learnings

Although I made it to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I didn't make it to a session Matt McAlister blogged about by Twitters Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API provider. B

Posted: May. 1, 2008 07:08 AM

The Efficiency of (the) American English Language

As I've come to learn while living in the US, the American English language is more efficient than its British English cousin. The difference between the two languages is more than just fonetic phonetic simplification - the general rule seems to be a

Posted: Apr. 29, 2008 11:27 AM

So...what?

About four years ago I wrote a post (on my old blog) about some of the verbal tics and language use I encountered at Microsoft (memetic habits I inevitably picked up myself). My observations centered around the use of the word "so", example: "So, h

Posted: Apr. 27, 2008 11:47 AM

Bungee Connect news x3 to share with you this morning

Three big pieces of Bungee Connect news to share with you this morning: 1. Bungee Grid now running on Amazon EC2 and accessible to Bungee Developers Bungee-powered application hosting on Bungee Grid-EC2 using Amazons Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) i

Posted: Apr. 23, 2008 08:46 AM

So what is this Platform as a Service thing?

The "platform-as-a-service", or PaaS meme is getting more air play the last 24 hours as news of Google App Engine makes its way through the tech media and blogs. ReadWriteWeb has a good write up and Phil Wainewright's summation by declaring "Let the

Posted: Apr. 8, 2008 10:54 AM

See Results of Bungee Connect's Intern DevFest 2008

In late 2007, fifty Computer Science university students applied for 2008 internships at Bungee Labs. We flew nine of the most promising applicants from around the US to join Bungee Labs for our first Intern DevFest. Over a 24 hour period the stude

Posted: Mar. 28, 2008 07:54 AM

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	Silverlight 2.0 - One RIA Framework to Rule Them All By Kevin Hoffman Peter W wrote: While there is something to be said for unification of the programming model from end to end, it is not paramount to have it if you work with dedicated and disciplined staff. There, I used the "D" word. My RIA tool of choice is Flex. My stack is Flex, ColdFusi...
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