or why no corporation will fork your permissively licensed open source project without contributing back upstream.

XML Abuse is everywhere, and I’m sick of it. Everytime I have to use Ant, I’m feeling like I’m in XML Hell.
Warning: This can be ranty at times.

Recent OS releases follow some kind of trend: they all try to make the desktop more usable for normal users. But with the rapid adoption of tablets, the power users will be left as the 80 percent who use desktops at all.

Tilt is a templating library for Ruby. It’s kind of an aggregator for templating engines — and I like it.

Closure Object Binding is one of the features that I’m looking forward to in PHP 5.4. We will take a brief look at the long way it took to be implemented and look into practical examples on how to improve libraries.