Blog Posts

  • Daily airplane flight activity simulation video

    This is just so cool that I have to put it here simply so I can remember to come look at it again in the future. Pay attention to the sunlight curves, and watch the patterns of where the planes stream over the course of the rhythm of a day. Thanks to the Zurich School ofContinue…

  • Open source WCM vs. Interwoven

    Ahhhh…. In the cycling world, when you catch up to a group riding ahead of you, and pass them with ease, you feel sooooo happy about the the fact that you’re strong enough to pass them. (Am I competitive? Nah… 😉 The same thing happens in tech, too. The latest example? When closed source vendors start toContinue…

  • My next open source “want”

    In the mid-1990’s I ran engineering at ON Technology. One of our most profitable products was MeetingMaker, an enterprise-grade calendaring system. It was a much loved – and equally despised – product among companies that (for whatever reason) weren’t running Microsoft Exchange but needed a “real” calendaring system to run their company. Faithful customers included Cisco,Continue…

  • A typical day at Acquia (now)

    Lots of video conversations. Jay gets goofy occasionally. Jeff runs a timer to keep us (me) from going down too many rabbit holes. Dries wears headphones to keep from driving Karlijn nuts. Solving the problems of the world…. What do we use to accomplish this? Acrobat connect. Couldn’t live without it. (Unsolicited ad for Adobe.Continue…

  • Amazon, and his dream health club

    Drupalcon Szeged 2008. Kieran and I are walking to meet some Drupalers at a patio bar, and I spot a sign for a fitness studio. Just. Too. Hard. To. Resist. Note: the sign is real; the photo of Kieran under it is real. What’s not real is the time each photo was taken. The photoContinue…