For Geeks, by Geeks: The Open Web Conference
In a binary view of the world, there are two types of of technology conferences: those run with a profit motive and those run for by technologists for technologists.
The Open Web Conference falls into the latter category. It is an event organized by the Vancouver PHP Users Association (who are a bunch of web developers, [...]
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Advancing the Mozilla Manifesto
Most regular readers of this blog are familiar with the Mozilla Manifesto and with the work that the Mozilla Corporation undertakes to advance the manifesto. It is good work. Actually, it is great work from a great community of people. However, the corporation focuses most on Firefox and the related software and communities. The manifesto [...]
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Lab with Leo Laporte: Demoing Firefox 3 and an (Emulated) Trip Down Memory Lane
Some ways back in the haze that was 2007, I was a guest on a few episodes of the Lab with Leo Laporte show. When I was visiting, I did two brief segments – one on Hiveminder and another on Free Software/Open Source.
I’ll be going back next week to record another few segments. This time, [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Monty’s Session on Building MySQL Community
I’ve come in late for Monty’s session – everything seems to be running a bit early – how odd.
Monty’s is covering mistakes in building communities – he’s talking about Dream Box and how they have let their community fragment so deeply. Then he talks about how MySQL has provided a strong central point for the [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Public Sector Benefits from Open Source
Carlos Montero-Luque takes the stage again, presenting a simple overview of how some governments are using Open Source and Open Standards, and the results that they are getting.
I fear that in rushing to get my notes from the other presentation online, I’ve missed part of this presentation.
As with Tommi, Carlos’ slides contain the meat of [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Standardization, Industry-Community Cooperations and Mobile Linux
After Carlos, Nils Faerber from LiPS (a Linux telephony consortium that includes telephony operators, hardware vendors and software vendors) takes the stage.
Nils looks much more like we image an Open Source developer to look – more like a character from User Friendly than a character from Dilbert.
He gives a high-level overview of the current state [...]
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Pecked by the Vulture for Knitting In Public
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine received a light pecking from one of the vultures at The Register (or, more precisely, an appendage of The Register called RegDeveloper) and took some offense.
Frankly, as someone whose never been pecked by El Reg, I’m almost envious. I’ve only been trolled by anonymous cowards, while Danese [...]
Lightning Talks on TV?
A few months ago, Ryan Yewell from the Lab with Leo Laporte dropped me a note to see if I was interested in presenting a segment on the show. Each segment is about six minutes – about the same length as a lightning talk.
While I’ve been mostly out of town when they’ve been shooting, I [...]
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Catcloud Wordress Plugin Security and Performance Update
Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I’d recommend using Wordpress’ built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
After putting off some very, very simple work for far too long, I’ve finally fixed the security hole in catcloud that is mentioned here. I’ve also fixed the very lazily written code that grabbed the [...]
Confiscated Knitting Needles
It had to happen eventually… when I was going through security at the Helsinki airport today, they took away my Addi Turbo circular needles as being too dangerous to bring on the airplane.
The needles have made it through American, Canadian, Dutch, German and Norwegian security – who would have thought that the Fins would have [...]