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The Age of Literate Machines: A Visionary Look at Free Software
About twenty years ago, Mr. Hughes (my excellent grade eight and nine science teacher) showed my class a television series called "Connections." The series, written and hosted by British wit and science historian James Burke, focused on how sets of seemingly disparate events came together to shape the modern world. Connections was (and is) [...]
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New Blog Design
After many months of being dissatisfied with the look of my blog, I finally got around to the pleasurable proactive procrastination of redesigning it.
The major changes are focused on readability and accessibility - the layout has been simplified (and should now work better with screen readers), the font size has been increased to help those [...]
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Possible CSRF in Catcloud
Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
Alex over at http://www.buayacorp.com posits (in Spanish) that catcloud is vulnerable to cross-site request forgeries (CSRF) - he may well be right. I've asked him for more information.
Amusingly enough, despite having catcloud on his list [...]
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Profiled (and then trolled) on Linux.com
At last month's Vancouver PHP Conference, local journalist Bruce Byfield gave me a quick interview about how I got involved in Free Software and Open Source. We chatted for a while about my time at MySQL, my bits of work in the PHP community and what I am currently up to. The interview turned into [...]
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Of Warfare Metaphors and Tribes on the Electronic Frontier
In recent post Earning one's way out of the trenches Matt Asay posits:
It has become an unspoken for me, and should be a common rule throughout the open source business landscape, that no one should become a commander without first having slogged through the trenches as a private. … I don't think it's wise to [...]
Borrowing Great Ideas from the Sikhs: Food for BarCamp Vancouver
My contribution for the first BarCamp Vancouver was a selection of foodstuffs chosen and prepared so as to be friendly for vegans, Muslims eating Halal, Jews following Kashrut, Rastafarians eating Ital, people with food allergies and others with similar constraints.
I was tickled at how positive the reactions were at BarCamp - in particular, Aaron Pettigrew's [...]
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PHP Appalachia
Ben Ramsey wrote to remind me to blog about the upcoming PHP Appalachia event. Actually, he wrote quite some time ago. Thankfully, there still seem to be spots open. If you are in the area, go check it out.
Tags: PHP, Uncategorized, wiki, Wikipedia
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Don't get pwn3d: Why Professionalism Matters In Community Discussions
Some years ago (as penance for working at MySQL during some temporary corporate brain-damage about Free Software licensing) I began volunteering at the Free Software Foundation.
For the most part, I have spent my time providing support on Free Software licensing questions for the FSF Compliance Lab and helping out on the GPL v3 effort.
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Possible OSCON Highlight: Hacking Government
Carl Malamud's keynote could have been great, if only it had been more coherent. Between video clips with muddy audio, Carl talking over the muddy audio, some difficulties maintaining a linear narrative and a few important missing pieces of context, the session was compelling but crippled.
If you can, catch Carl for a great conversation.
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catcloud Wordpress Plugin
Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
catcloud is a plugin for Wordpress that generates a tag cloud from the categories used for a blog. Tags cloud are visual representations of how frequently a tag is used within a given set of [...]
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