Sandeep's Tech and Design Blog

10 Promising Web Platforms , this is a list off platforms outside of the popular ones like Facebook and Myspace that could become popular.

Interesting post on how Linus Trovalds manages the Linux Kernel development process . Some of his opinions would also apply to large closed source development where the team members are geographically distributed.

Going through the list of 15 suggessions to improving usability in open source software the main problem is that too many cooks spoil the broth, A good user interface requires as much thought as does the software architecture. There have been cases where a requirement for a better user interface has required significant changes in the code across the stack because usability was not thought about upfront.