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So I’m finally finding the time to get working on the design of the Logic Colony website. I just intend to do some very public incremental development. Today was the first iteration if you like, where I spent about an hour just getting things together on the server and throwing some Javascript widgets on the page.

Is there a master plan? Not really. Well certainly not a top-down detailed plan. I do however, have some strong ideas/themes for what I want the site to become, but its more of a case of seeing where the process takes me. Given the limited time I will have to spend on the site, it’s definitely going to be a case of embracing constraints.

Photo by mat0s, used under a Creative Commons license with thanks.

A happy New Year to all of Logic Colony’s clients, both current and former, and to all readers of this blog.

With a bit of luck and a lot more time, we plan to roll out some interesting software in 2008. And of course, we will continue to help our clients fulfil their objectives.

The end of 2007 saw the publication of some interesting (controversial) blog posts and article. My two favourites:

• Zed Shaw’s now infamous rant about the ‘Rails Ghetto’
• Jaron Lanier says: ‘Long Live Closed-Source Software’ (I agree)

If the Ruby community has lost a hacker of Zed’s calibre, then it’s our loss and a big one. Still, I can’t wait for his book to come out, and maybe I need to make some time into looking into Factor.

As for the closed source vs. open source software argument, I think Jaron has nailed this one on the head. It’s unfashionable to say it in many quarters, but a lot of (most?) open source software is just a poor imitation of innovative closed source software.