In my day to day life, there are few things I truly dislike doing: I’m a pretty happy person. There is one thing, though, that I really don’t like – at all – and that strikes me as a truly pointless exercise in futility: searching. Shouldn’t we have a solution for that by now? It [...]

Stephen Hawking’s new book promises a lot of hype. CNN Already published two separate articles about it on their site even hough no-one has read it yet. I’ve added it to my Amazon Science Books Wishlist, and will buy it when I come round to it unless some generous soul wants to offer it to [...]

When I ran a team of R&D programmers, a while ago, at one point, we had one person from a visible minority, one person with a slight handicap, two women, two immigrants (one of which was one of the two women, the other was me) and at least one phytopathologist (me). We beat most of [...]

"Is Good Code Possible?" John Blanco asks on his blog. He goes on to tell a harrowing story on how he had to develop an iPhone app for a big retailer (“Gorilla Mart”) in less than two weeks. Why he even accepted the contract is beyond me but then, he may not have had a [...]

Coverage profiling allows you to see which parts of the code have been run and are especially useful when unit-testing. Here’s an anecdote to show just how important they can be.

Under bill C-32 it would be illegal to remove TPM under by far most circumstances. Does that mean that, if you decide to publish software you create with TPM, you’re handing away the rights of your software to the TPM manufacturer? No, it doesn’t.

Accroding to The Appropriation Art Coalition applying TPM to public domain content effectively removes that content from the public domain. Is that really true? I don’t think so, and here’s why.

It’s been argued that TPM and bill C-32 are bad for Free/Libre Open Source Software development. Is that true? If so, why? If not, why not? Personally, I don’t think so, and I’ll tell you why.

While some of the feed-back on bill C-32 (Copyright reform) seems to be constructive, much of it has become a foray of personal attacks on Conservative MP and Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, James Moore, who tabled the legislation with Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, on June 2. Of course, his remarks on [...]

A few days ago, I was listening to the podcast for the CBC program Spark, in which they mentioned a new bill, bill C-32. They had a person on the show, whose name I do not remember, who said it was a very “balanced” bill. That peaked my interest, so I decided to read the [...]