https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicVR.js/issues/25
humph and cjcliffe want ref tests for cubicVR
I have no idea where to start, other then fixing my current Linux distro.
I’m on Arch Linux and its nvidia support is totally screwy at the moment, I’ve decided to just wipe it and use Ubuntu.
Done with these DIY distros… You end up spending more time fixing seriously broken things then actually doing any work.
This week was our introduction to Git.
Throughout my programming career so far, I have only used SVN and mercurial.
So far at least, it seems like Git is relatively similar to mercurial – which is fantastic. I should be able to jump right in and do what i need to do without much more documentation.
Interestingly, when I was using mercurial my team never branched, we always just cloned the repo, and pushed to the trunk. I’m going to have to get used to the branching way of doing things.
Next up: I plan on getting a job to do from secretrobotron, It doesnt look like the “issues” page on github has been populated yet, so I gotta talk to him.
I’m excited to start some work on paladin!
David’s lecture is a great accompaniment to The cathedral and the bazaar!
Something that really struck me about his lecture is the analogy to an open source project as a bustling festival. Hans-Georg Gadamer’s ideas really resonate with the ideas of open source as a bazaar.
A festival has a mood, and standards, established methods of doing things.
As well as relatively loose rules and details. -> so does an open source project.
An impenetrable open-source project, is no longer quite as impenetrable after viewing it this way. A project requires you to just go, you become assimilated into it over the course of the project, the requirement to understand everything about it becomes redundant.
Its not about fully understanding it (initially.), its about going to enjoy the show.
Yes, this is late…. I know.
I really didn’t want to read the Cathedral and the Bazaar, though after reading it I can’t believe I felt that way.
This article is easily one of the most insightful (on the topic of open source) I have ever read.
And! as an added bonus, it has great tips for honing your skills and increasing the chances of success with your own projects.
It really is amazing that Linux had progressed from its beginnings as a rehash of Linus’s Minix OS into the enormous thing it is today, all as a collaborative effort between people from all over the world.
I’m tempted now to clean up my own dependency injection project and make it fully open-source!
Yep..
Noah Gitalis 