Two major competitive frameworks merging is not happening everyday in the world of open source; quite the opposite actually. The Rails team and the Merb team announced this week that they will work together on a joined version of the 2 frameworks. This is a smart and wise decision. A joint effort is the best [...]

Chris Dannen from Fast Company: Yes, Jobs has built and rebuilt the Apple empire with stunning foresight and intuition. But a lot of the brainpower behind the Apple Inc. we know today doesn’t belong to Jobs at all. Like any smart CEO, he’s picked smart people to back him up — not just yes-men who [...]

Linus Torvald: Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C. In other words: the choice of C is the only sane choice. I know Miles Bader jokingly said “to piss you off”, but it’s [...]

Today, Google announced a research technology that aims to run native code on the web. Well, I can’t wait to see the outcome of this research but it seems to me that we’re reinventing something here; desktop computing, downloadable native apps, what’s the difference?

Louis Gray: I was stupid, Steve. Foolish. I thought I knew better. I thought I was strong, and yet, I was weak. I will never make that mistake again. I will tell everyone. It’s iPhone or No Phone.