Open document interchange
I read today that the South African government is more committed to ODF than ever. (ODF – is Open Document Format – for the unwashed…) As someone who has been involved with open source since 1998 – I believe that the support and adoption of ODF by the South African government would never have happened […]
Host your own SaaS with Open Source – the potential of Mosso
Show me a profitable business application-as-a-Service (SaaS) company. There is a lot of trade talk about the success of Salesforce.com. Here is a company with a $3.2BN market cap as of Oct 26, 2008 currently trading at 24 down from 72, 5 months ago. In 2007 – SF.com posted a net income of $480K on […]
Ubuntu in Warsaw
I was in Warsaw two weeks ago on a data loss project and walking down the street – lo and behold – I run into this. It’s hard to see in this little picture but one of the sponsors of www.ubuntu.pl is Subaru. Someone seems to have stolen the hubcaps which is an indication of […]
How many text editors do you know?
Please don’t say you do everything in vi. I returned Friday from a business trip on a data loss prevention project with a client in Poland and I realized it has been a while since I posted to my blog. Totally off topic from data leakage prevention and software security, I just won a small […]
Automated hacking of Joomla Web sites
A lot has been written about Google-aided automation of hacking. There is little I can add to this topic besides some personal and practical advice. If you’re running Joomla 1.5 you may have noticed queries of the sort “powered by joomla .domain_name_extension” in your Apache access.log file. It’s almost certain you’ll find a few of […]
Seven software development mistakes not to make in 2009
One thing that is burnt into my personal flash memory from 7 years at Intel is working in Plan 2009 in September/October. This time of year, I start thinking about how we can survive and grow the business. We all like to think we learn from mistakes, however, recent experiences reminded me that the software […]
