Another fine Linux Conference, this year held in sunny Brisbane. Although it was not to sunny having seen floods that created one of the largest natural disasters that Australia has ever seen. This said I and others where skeptical of not the conference organizers ability to pull off the conference but more the infrastructures ability to as a flood ripped through the University campus that the conference was going to be held on. On the…
I am upset about the filter stance by Labour. I have posted some comments on Kate Lundys blog however i also want to share them here. Just the first set of questions i would liked answered by Kate or Stephen or Kevin for that matter. **Post to Pia on Kate Lundys Blog http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/12/17/my-thoughts-on-the-filter/ I have tried to word five questions below that i believe the Australian people need to know; 1.Stephen Conroy has come out…
The meet-up was in Malones Irish Pub in Edinburgh EdLambda meet-up page. There was quite a large turn-out I belive at least 20 people. We soon took over a large part of the pub and discussions on functional programming where to be had all around. Was a great night meet some interesting people and had some heavy programming chats. Funny enough I was not the only Drupalista Jonathan from Blue droplet came along to the…
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/ Papers by Eric S Raymond The Cathedral and the Bazaar was a key paper in helping Netscape to make the decision to release their source code under the Mozilla name (Mozilla was the original name for the browser)
People ask me sometimes about security I spent a small time of life working (at this point its a large one but in 30 more years it will be small) as an email security professional. When people ask me about security they go straight to code hacking and white hat versus black hat. If I was writing the syllabus for a security unit/course there would be a subject on social engineering. I find that to…
Was lucky enough to get myself down to Melbourne for the weekend to attend Melbourne Drupal Camp. Had a great time and was really pleased with the quality of talks presented on the day. Lonely planet talked on there use of Druapl which was great for me as I have recently started working on the SunCorp Drupal pilot project with thoughtworks. Great discussions on theming Drupal and the community where we are going what we…