Graceful Exits

If you’re helping to fight climate change, tell me: why?

OGN7 writeup on Google. It has to be pithier next time or they’ll turn it into pirate-speak to spite me.

If you’re about to start programming under the GPL, and you want to read just one article about it, then: don’t read this; read the Drupal licensing FAQ instead.

Many proffered hands make light work of running OGN7

It’s ten days to OGN7; we’ve got a full roster of speakers, half a boxfull of books; it’s dork, and I’m wearing a work-related T-shirt.

My rather cheesy write-up of OGN6 is now available on the Google Open Source blog. I’d like to say it was cut to ribbons and all the worst bits are editorial additions, but I think they put it up verbatim.
Cheers, all: see you at OGN7, June 25th.

The next OGN next Tuesday has developed broad themes without us really trying. Generally it’s best to have a mixture of talks, because of the eclectic mix of interests represented by our audience, but two clear topics have arisen, with some overlap in between.
Gobion Rowlands leads our e-learning procession, with a keynote on “turning hard [...]

While I’m not particularly a net-neutrality zealot (it’s hard to care about it when most of the world’s poor are without any net connection at all), I’m nonetheless surprised by the bullishness of the recent remarks by Neil Berkett, Virgin Media’s CEO. I’m more taken aback, however, by his choice of phrase: he says that [...]

“Never attribute to malware that which can be adequately explained by stupidware.”

The LAMP-stack community frequently shows their disdain for foreign and primary keys in databases, and sometimes with reason borne of experience. MySQL historically has been little more than a nice language for comparing a set of unrelated spreadsheets, so referential integrity has had to happen at the application layer or not at all. As such, [...]