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Subversion is now an option at Sourceforge. Info can be found here. I’ve never really liked cvs so this is great news for me. The chance of me contributing to a project hosted there is now about 1000 times greater.

I know this is old, but if you haven’t read it, you must. This guy nails it on the head. If you have ever said the words “web-two-oh “and “ajax” in the same sentence, I worry you have been carried away. Reading the above link will guide back to earth.

I simply must quote…

To you who are toiling over an AJAX- and Ruby-powered social software product, good luck, God bless, and have fun. Remember that 20 other people are working on the same idea. So keep it simple, and ship it before they do, and maintain your sense of humor whether you get rich or go broke. Especially if you get rich. Nothing is more unsightly than a solemn multi-millionaire.

There is a cool video of the new Digg comment system. It really does look SLICK. Now it will be so much easier make comments like:

Really, Digg could be cool, but the level of discussion is like 12 year-old wannabe chatter. Every now-and-again there is an insightful comment but that hardly makes it worth the time. I haven’t bothered to register a user account there so I don’t really know what options there are to make things less dumb. The point is, that the default page (the face the world sees) is just juvenile. Maybe when Web 2.5 is out things will have improved ;)

MS acknowledges that their licensing can be confusing and they offer a free USB key preloaded with MS propaganda to help you in your path to licensing enlightenment. I doubt there is any info about the GPL on there :(

Find it here…

Click the link on the right of the page that says, “Get Yours!” and fill out the 4 question form. They will send you a free USB key in 6-8 weeks.

Answers are 2, T, T, T

Only problem is that it requires “Microsoft Passport” sign-in.

DevUtah’s February Geek Dinner will be held at the Miller Business Innovation Center on Wednesday February 22 at 6 PM.

David Spann and Alistair Cockburn will lead a discussion on “Introducing Agile to the Organization”. If you’ve heard of Agile methodologies but can’t get others in your organization interested; or if you’ve been a member of a high performing Agile team but can’t find the right words to convince upper management to spread the “gospel”, this discussion may be helpful. David and Alistair will take your questions before they begin and will respond to as many as possible. Being agile by nature, they want to meet your (the customer’s) interest. If you’ve only heard about Agile, feel free to do a little research and post beginner questions as well.

Speakers
David Spann is high-tech management consultant who focuses teams on making a reasonable return on investment while exceeding customer expectations. David has helped conduct each of the annual Agile Software Conferences since the first one held at Westminster College in 2002 and is currently involved with Alistair Cockburn in developing Utah’s Agile Project Leadership Network.

Alistair Cockburn is an internationally known project witchdoctor and strategist. He co-authored the 2001 Manifesto for Agile Software Development and the 2005 project management “Declaration of Inter-Dependence” and has written several best-selling books.

Grub
A build-your-own taco buffet will be catered by Megan Faulkner Brown.
The meal cost is $12. You can prepay from the wiki or just bring cash to pay at the door.

Please RSVP:
RSVP here.

Novell has been hard at work. The they have released their Xgl graphics subsystem and the ‘Compiz’ compositing manager and it’s source code which they have been developing in-house. I sure hope that the X.org guys are able to plug ‘n’ chug with it. The site has some good videos but the *sweet* vids are at LinuxEdge (pay no mind to the fuzzy .PNGs). Let’s hope this becomes stock for all Linux desktops - real soon now.

Blog spam is here.  It only took a few weeks.  Now “adult” themed sites feel like they get to leave comments here that are really just stupid links back to their site.  For now, I’ve disabled comments but this will only be until I figure out how to restrict the spam.

Plese feel free to comment on this.