This is a nice article by Eric Raymond. The hacker spirit has always intrigued me since I wrote my first moon landing simulation program for a Wang programmable desktop calculator, using a graphite pencil to mark Hollerith...

ZDNet reports that open source projects have a low bug rate and fix their bugs quite fast. I know that because I am part of a quite disciplined open source community!...

Look at this marvellous piece of art! It is a difference engine built from a *whole lot* of LEGO pieces. Way cool thing. Must be fun to listen to it. 🙂 Reminds me of the Artihmeum, the fascinating...

My website is now based on the Joomla content management system. I tried to syndicate a few of my friends‘ blogs (Gernot Starke and Markus Voelter) in the „Blogs“ menu of the website and found out that...

This article by Microsoft describes a nice set of pitfalls to avoid when localizing applications. We tend to forget about these nitty gritty details when writing great software....

Wow, the open source community shows Microsoft how to do O/R mapping! That’s great! See http://sourceforge.net/potm/...