“Perl on Rails is a project by the smart chaps over in BBC Audio and Music Interactive that replicates the Ruby On Rails MVC framework in Perl. They’re obviously rather proud of themselves, and I understand that internally the project is making waves. Whilst I applaud the technical achievement of the individual developers, I deplore the situation that has forced them to do this.” - iamseb.com

“In general the BBC’s Software Engineering community is pretty good at sharing code. If one team has something that might be useful elsewhere then there’s no problem in installing it and using it elsewhere. What we’re not so good at is coordinating our effort so that we can all contribute to the same code base - in short we don’t really have an open source mentality between teams - we’re more cathedral and less bazaar even if we freely let each other into our cathedrals.” - from the original /radiolabs post by Tom Scott

As I return after a long weekend in New York, two reminders about work, even before I get back. And two excellent posts, incidentally.

Photo: Leon Brocard. Used under licence

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