So, as a little digression from our normal content, I felt like writing a list of the top 10 reasons to work on open-source software…but being a born Californian, I felt I had to pay a little respect to my roots. So here we have the top 10 reasons to work on open-source…as said by, like, a dude from Cali…

There’s a strange sort of social disease going around in technology circles today, and it all centers around this word “innovation.” Everybody wants to “innovate.” The news talks about “who’s being the most innovative.” Marketing for companies insists that they are “innovating.” Except actually, it’s not innovation that leads to success. It’s execution. It doesn’t matter how good or how…

So, you might have heard that Google released a web browser. One of the features of this web browser is its JavaScript engine, called v8, which is designed for performance. Designing for performance is something that Google does often. Now, designing for performance usually leads to complexity. So, being a major supporter of software simplicity, I’m opposed, in a theoretical…

I don’t know if this has become clear to everybody yet, but you really need to design from the start. You need to be working on simplicity and the other Laws of Software Design from the very beginning of your project. My policy on projects that I control is that we never add a feature unless the design can support…