Open Source Developer Lab Looking For Board Members 10
A reader writes: "I noticed that the Open Source Development Lab is looking for nominations and commentary on the Community Nominations to the Board. They've got some of the usual suspects on there, but will also take other suggestions. The organization was profiled by Nick Petreley a while back as well."
look how much reply this article has! (Score:1)
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Re:Pseudocode for Project Name Generator. (Score:1)
I am new to programming, so no flames please. Can something like this be ported to Perl? (I am trying to learn it.)
I have been reading a lot lately about the importance of "strong typing" and I suspect that this program (if it can be written in Perl at all) is defintely an example where that would be needed.
So, I guess what I am really asking is: Is this kind of program only able to be written well in something like C++ or Java?
(Besides that I have a feeling that using an object-oriented language (like Visual C++) would reduce the amount of code you would have to write (due to increased code re-use.))
Are there any serious programmers out there that can answer this question?
Thanks in advance!
I got your commentary right here (Score:1)
Great, a guy that's currently on the recieving end of a shareholder lawsuit due to not playing by the rules when his company IPO'd.
Tim O'Reilly - President, O'reilly Associates
Isn't this the guy Bruce Perens described as the "biggest parasite in the open source community"? Why yes, I believe it is. This was part of why Bruce resigned from OSI [slashdot.org] and returned to the Free Software movement.
Eric Raymond - Author, The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Didn't this guy threaten to kill Bruce Perens [debian.org]? Yes, I believe he did. Question for you ESR, why isn't Open Source a trademark anymore? Is it because you couldn't work and play well with others (namely Bruce)?
Randy Terbush - Co-founder, Director & Treasurer, Apache Foundation; Founder & CTO, Covalent
Actually an OK guy by all accounts I've heard.
Bob Young - Chairman, Red Hat Software
I think Mae Ling Mak [spinster.org] said it best: There's a bug in redhat and his name is Bob [segfault.org]. The way Bob reacted after discovering that one of his employess had been sexually harassing Ms. Mak online was disgraceful. There needs to be a zero tolerance policy against sexual harassment in the workplace. I hope the guy involved never works again.
Wow, talk about choosing the lesser of several evils.
--Shoeboy
Re:look how much reply this article has! (Score:1)
If one has to get an account first in order to only *read* the damned article in the link, then it is no surprise to get so little response from an audience of which each member already has an overflowing mailbox of so called 'opt-in' stuff.
(From sites like the NYT [nytimes.com] everyone accepts this, perhaps because we may revisit it some time in the future and it is known to have usefull information).
So, without having seen the info in the link, how can we comment sensibly?
It is not so much about not caring about Open Source, as more about "Well euh... dunno, can't tell, what is this about?"
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Same old same old (Score:1)
Intentionally or not... (Score:1)
Re:Pseudocode for Project Name Generator. (Score:2)
No need for strong typing. You can do something like this in most modern high-level languages, although how easy it will be depends on the language. It's actually easier in languages with weak, or at least dynamic, typing, since you don't have to declare all those "this is an array of strings" variables.
Here's that pseudo-code translated into a working Python program:
# Program creates a very generic site title
' ,'User','PHB','Engineer','Guru','Wizard')i lder','Shack','Hangout','Project','Foundation','As sociation')
# or project title - "Open Source Development Lab"
# a perennial favourite.
from random import choice
PreWordArray = ('GNU','g','k','Linux','OSS','Open Source','Free Software')
MainWordArray = ('Developer','Development','Programmer','Designer
PostWordArray = ('Lab','Site','Homepage','.com','.net','.org','Bu
ProjectName = choice(PreWordArray) + choice(MainWordArray) + choice(PostWordArray)
print ProjectName
Python has often been compared to executable pseudo-code. Now you can see why.<wink>
This is great news (Score:2)
Always the same names (Score:2)
Pseudocode for Project Name Generator. (Score:4)
PreWordArray is array of strings
P HB,Engineer,Guru,Wizard)a ngout,Project,Foundation,Association)
MainWordArray is array of strings
PostWordArray is array of strings
PreWordArray = (GNU,g,k,Linux,OSS,Open Source,Free Software)
MainWordArray =(Developer,Development,Programmer,Designer,User,
PostWordArray = (Lab,Site,Homepage,.com,.net,.org,Builder,Shack,H
ProjectName is string
ProjectName = PreWordArray.getRandom + MainWordArray.getRandom + PostWordArray.getRandom
print ProjectName
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