So, of all the comments you may have ever received on your blog, who provided the comment that made you say, “holy sheat, xxxx yyyyy just commented on my blog”? In early 2007 I was working with Jeff Brown of Jeff Brown Designs. We had recently launched his new site and Jeff had written a post on the use of CSS grids. Now, I know this doesn’t count for me, and Jeff is probably going to call me up and ask why the hell I stole Eric from him, but I’m writing about it anyway. The day of Jeff’s post who should place a comment on the blog? Eric Meyer himself. I felt all tingly and warm inside, and I had to breathe into a small paper bag to catch my breath. (more…)
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008The Death of an Open Source Project?
Sunday, April 13th, 2008The death of an open source project starts when the lead developers stop actually using the project. If it is only being maintained out of a feeling of obligation for those who have downloaded and installed the code, than it’s bound to have a short shelf life. In July of 2006 Stephen Eskin (a former student of mine) and I launched the first version of Project Alumni. We had implemented an alumni application for our High School and we figured we might as well make it available to the world. In nearly two years the project has been downloaded approximately 3400 times. I’m pretty happy with those numbers. Just query google for “Powered by Project-Alumni” and you can get a good idea of the number of sites using the project. (more…)