This is the page 100 of 113 of the blog archive. On this page you have articles from 09 Jun 2004 to 26 May 2004.

Open Source Consulting for the Government

Here in Finland the government has been pushing Open Source for a while already.The Ministry of Finance started an Open Source examination project back in 2001, and made openness of code and interfaces a recommendation for governmental information systems (also in Finnish).In addition, the Ministry of Interior is funding the Finnish Center for Open Source Software (COSS), an Open Source...

Positioning a Consultancy on the Web

While it’s tempting to project a grandiose image of being a large multi-faceted company which is internationally sought-after, the problem with doing so is that you miss out on a lot of smaller work since it’s assumed you’re too expensive. If you are in fact a large company, the smaller work might be of little concern. If you’re not and...

Success of WordPress: PHP vs. Java

One reason is that PHP provides a lightweight way of building efficient web applications. Russel Beattie writes: Once again I ask - why is Java web programming not keeping up? Why are Java web projects so bloated (I've got 5+MB of .jar files in my current web project and I think more are coming). Why are the pages so difficult...

RSS Feed of Midgard-User Posts

The RSS feed is courtesy of the Midgard-User Yahoo! Group.Direct URL to the Midgard-User RSS feed is:http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/midgard-user/rssThanks to Dave Winer for notifying that Yahoo! Groups now provide RSS feeds for all public group discussion lists.

Spread of the Creative Commons

To celebrate these developments, my website is now available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license 2.0. This can be identified in the "Some rights reserved" link in bottom of each page, and in machine-readable RDF metadata included in the pages. At least the mocCC extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser identifies my site licensing correctly: Apparently, not everybody is completely...
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On CDG Terminal 2E Collapse

What makes this tragedy a bit more personal is that I spent six hours in the terminal on my February trip to South Africa, and was quite impressed by the futuristic architecture: Nat Friedman writes in his blog: