Summary of October, 2002
My blogging in October, 2002 focused mainly on team culture, but also saw a lot of link blogging regarding the Eldred v. Ashcroft case and “trusted computing.”
At this time, I read a lot of Lawrence Lessig’s articles, and I especially liked how he compared the architecture of the Internet to the constitution in a legal system. In a post from October 1, I summarized his article Open Code and Open Societies (PDF).
The major theme this month was team culture. By this time, I had begun to shift focus from software architecture to the culture of the team, which I saw as a superset of the architecture. See the following posts:
- Agile culture (of October 2)
- Laundry room theories (of October 9)
- Pattern language, architecture, culture (of October 9)
- XP and culture (of October 29)
I read Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which sometimes is brilliant, but on the whole, it feels like a really early draft. See the following posts:
- On The Cathedral and the Bazaar (of October 24)
- On The Cathedral and the Bazaar (cont’d) (of October 24)
I read Alan Watts’s Taoism: Way Beyond Seeking and recommended it.
I also read Richard P. Gabriel’s and Ron Goldman’s great essay Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code, which influenced many of this months posts.