Seth Wagoner

• Personal home page: http://sethop.com

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• May 5, 2001, on Software Pricing:

  I've spent a bit of time this year thinking about how silly the current software pricing models are. Seems Phillip was 5 years ahead of me, judging from the date on this article. It strikes me that the tables and chairs model will not survive another decade, and something along these lines would make a good replacement. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I like it. I think it's a better model for some situations than the current open source licences, because there's more motivation for maintaining, documenting, and improving the code. There would be a much bigger focus on maximising reusability, getting the interface/API right, and good documentation, which really can't be a bad thing. And it's probably more acceptable to the average company than the standard open source revenue models. Anyhow, I'm not sure if Ian was speaking seriously or merely applying a topical ArsDigita analogy (for those of you reading this in a few years time, check the ArsDigita legal history.....

• June 22, 2001, on Application Servers:

  Concerning the virtues of interpreted scripting languages vs compiled application logic feeding HTML templates, I thought I might share my experiences with rapid prototyping and debugging on two platforms, one compiled, one interpreted. Firstly, ASP development. I use Homesite, which gives me syntax highlighting, tag-wizards, context sensitive help, all that good stuff. But to find syntax errors in my form logic, for instance, I still have to reload the page, read the error message, figure out where the error is (sometimes the line numbers given are helpful, sometimes not) and move to that line in Homesite before I can start debugging. Maybe there are microsoft tools that make this faster, I don't know. Secondly, Delphi development. I've done a fair amount of standard database development and even a fair amount of web development using Delphi. 18 months ago I wrote the beginnings of a pretty good webBBS system using Delphi (currently running at insanity.net.nz - I hope to finall...