Me, tech and the world.
So today, as I do most days, I read slashdot and as with most days I was shocked by a story there. However the reason I have decided to write about what I have read today is for a change this is something that has been affecting me directly over the past week or [...]
I was just pointed to this debate by @werner. It is not often that the premise of a debate will disgust me but in this case I have to make an exception.
Now to be clear even if I am disgusted by the debate I am still glad it happened. We should never be afraid [...]
So we have been using Cobbler at TomTom for quite a while now to manage the deployment of some systems here. A whole lot of these systems are in out Continuous Test and Integration system, a home written thing but very similar to autobuild.
One of the really cool features in Cobbler that I get [...]
So, as part of the work on getting Free Software to High Schools I have setup Melange tonight on Google App Engine. Now more on what we are going to be using this for later, this post is more about my first thoughts about using the App Engine.
Well first thing is it has so [...]
Can we bring high school kids into the Free software development world…
So a little over a year ago I was at my sisters “parents evening” for her last year of high school and I decided to have a chat with my old computing teacher. I figured I would let him know that the local [...]
I cannot believe it has been over a year since I logged into Wordpress and put something on by blog, I guess I have been really busy with in that big blue room huh!
Well a few things have been happening, I am working at TomTom which of course is mega exciting. I just did [...]
Well today (last night really) was the first time I have had to use 3g on my cell phone ‘in anger’ as some would say. I have to say it has been amazingly easy, as you will see below.
Now to start with I am using an Acer Aspire laptop I bought a year or [...]
First of all before I go any further, yes I am a UNIX geek, I have a beard, I wear jeans/combats and a t-shirt to work and I stay late at night trying to figure out why I cannot get the latest cool toy to ./configure ; make ; make install. However the week [...]
So over the past few days I have been at the FoWA expo supporting Flexiscale. I have to say, it is the first time I have been to a tech expo for a company I have been working for and it was an eye opening experience!
On Tuesday we all got down there to get [...]
Now before I go any further I must say that both at one of my previous employers and my current employer I have been a very happy NetApp customer.
I feel that RMS is standing over me as I write this…..
What seems like a long time ago now I went to see RMS (Richard M [...]