Drupal, licensing and the GPL June 30th, 2008
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.
If random is secure, pseudorandom is pseudosecure September 15th, 2007
Do you bank online? How are you asked for your secret code? Three randomly placed digits of it, hmm? The reason for the randomness is that any malicious keylogging software can’t see your screen, just your keyboard: so even if it logged every time you banked online, the fraudster it reported back to could never [...]
Software was created free and is everywhere in ipchains August 15th, 2006
Don’t get me wrong: I think that Stallman has contributed massively to the open-source movement. But Tim O’Reilly is right: he simply doesn’t get the problem that closed web services present. I think talking about open access to the data is missing the point too. Often I’ve no wish to access the raw data, and [...]
Crouching Harold, hidden formats July 19th, 2006
Elliotte Rusty Harold roundly disses microformats, comparing the practice of utilising them to homeopathy, of all “disciplines.” A bit of cheeky banter, so it’s probably churlish to point out that the comparison itself turns out to be unsound within his own argument: whereas homeopathy might arguably be no solution to any problem, Elliotte’s beef [...]