{"id":1092,"date":"2010-02-27T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T17:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2010-02-27T23:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T07:00:23","slug":"not-invented-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Not Invented Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s a new comic strip about software with the, um,\u00a0mysterious title, <a href=\"http:\/\/notinventedhe.re\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Not Invented Here<\/a>\u00a0(I just caught the preposterous domain name:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/notinventedhe.re\" class=\"broken_link\">http:\/\/notinventedhe.re<\/a>)&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 The strip\u00a0deals with issues like security, and comments posted by readers say things like, &#8220;I DEMAND you take the bug out of my company&#39;s conference room immediately!&#8221; and &#8220;Wow, it is as if you have a mole in our office!&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 So, with the authors&#8217; permission, here&#39;s a taste.<\/p>\n<p>It all starts off innocently enough:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/02\/NIH-0.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wait.\u00a0 I think I&#39;ve met these people.<br \/>\n<img src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/02\/NIH-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yikes.\u00a0 Maybe I am these people!<br \/>\n<img src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/02\/NIH-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And if you&#39;re in the business,\u00a0you can&#39;t miss\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/notinventedhe.re\/on\/2010-2-18\" class=\"broken_link\">this one<\/a>, which will take you over to the NIH site.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#39;re wondering where this can possibly come from, the strip is by Bill Barnes and Paul Southworth.\u00a0 I don&#39;t know Paul yet, but readers may know Bill&#39;s work from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unshelved.com\/\">Unshelved<\/a>, which has been making librarians guffaw for years (an\u00a0 easy task?)\u00a0\u00a0The truth is, Bill knows a lot about what goes on with\u00a0software &#8211; in fact one of his gigs was herding cats\u00a0during the first version of CardSpace.\u00a0 Now he&#39;s totally dedicated to his strips &#8211; should be a lot of fun &#8211; and enlightening too.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wow, it is as if you have a mole in our office!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16,37,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}