While waiting for my flight from New York I noticed a familiar balloon window on the flight schedule. Tyler and I had a quick chuckle about it.

It’s a harmless example of how cumbersome it is to use software that’s tied together in massive bundles. No matter how mainstream it was to be a Windows developer I still found it refreshing to work with Linux and friends simply because of the Unix philosophy:

• Write programs that do one thing and do it well
• Write programs to work together
• Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface

Serve me software a-la-carte!

Posted by Richard Caetano on Monday, July 02, 2007