Chris Tyler has setup Teaching Open Source, with an aim to establish a collaboration point between various efforts around open source education. Why do we need another open source advocacy site? Like David Humphrey says, If you’ve spent any amount of time working in open source and education youâ€...

Singapore will introduce new legislation that will make it harder for foreigners to evade taxes back home by hiding their money in bank accounts in the city state. Singapore will “assist (other countries) on bona fide requests for information�, the Finance Ministry announced on Friday. The annou...

Thousands of foreign workers, including London School of Economics graduates with six-digit salaries and desperately poor Bangladeshi factory workers, are streaming home as the economy in Singapore suffers the worst of the recessions in Southeast Asia, reports the Washington Post. Singapore is an ep...

Microsoft seems to be hell bent on making the standards secondary in the name of compatibility. Not a while back, Microsoft had agreed to use the standards mode by default for IE8 after many had opposed the degradation. If enough users vote a site into IE7 compatibility mode, it will be displayed us...

A junior asked me about what I have gained after about a decade of experience in the software development. I tried to sound cool and talked about methodologies, philosophies, tools, and what not. A perfect recipe for a boring and useless lecture, which I am sure was of no use to him. And then I real...

How do I convince these sites that I do use Firefox? It gets called something else because of some stupid reasons, but it is really Firefox and nothing else. Every time I visit hotmail or orkut or some site which thinks that it is doing something so special that it needs to warn users about their br...

That is what we can conclude from Stuart McKee’s statement. It sure sounds nice! Unfortunately, it does hardly anything for the divide created because of ODF and OOXML. It has been a weird journey for OOXML, first it was rejected, then approved, then appealed against, and now it finds a parall...

I ended up on a Windows machine for a couple of days, my Linux machine was inaccessible. I was using a Windows machine after a gap of about an year or so. My usage was limited to only testing on Windows specific applications. I had to install a couple of applications to get my basic development envi...

Kent Beck says that XP is in the danger of getting stagnated because of a combination of limited adoption and no opposition. It has become like the standards, which everyone accepts in principle, but no on adopts in practice. I like XP, it was like a breath of fresh air after working through various...

Reginald Braithwaite reminds us of the inhertiance and composition duel, and it is a good reminder. The biggest misconception that lot of programmers come out with, and I was part of the mob when I graduated, that the biggest benefit of inheritance is code reuse. I think this is worse than being fal...