Posted on Thu 20 March 2014 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, FSOSS, Structured data, coding, fsoss, structured data
Two things of note:
Posted on Thu 20 March 2014 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, FSOSS, Structured data, coding, fsoss, structured data
Two things of note:
Posted on Mon 24 February 2014 in misc • Tagged with Android, FSOSS, android, fsoss
tl;dr Mozilla is building a location service and you can help by running MozStumbler on your Android device.
Last week I drew the blue line from Sudbury to Ottawa you see in the above map by running MozStumbler on my phone as we headed out to celebrate Winterlude. One …
Posted on Mon 24 February 2014 in misc • Tagged with Android, FSOSS, android, fsoss
tl;dr Mozilla is building a location service and you can help by running MozStumbler on your Android device.
Last week I drew the blue line from Sudbury to Ottawa you see in the above map by running MozStumbler on my phone as we headed out to celebrate Winterlude. One …
Posted on Fri 05 July 2013 in Python • Tagged with Coding, FSOSS, PostgreSQL, Python, coding, fsoss, postgresql, python
On August 10, 2013, I'll be giving a twenty-minute talk at PyCon Canada on A Flask of full-text search with PostgreSQL. I'm very excited to be talking about Python, at a Python conference, and to be giving the Python audience a peek at PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities. With a twenty …
Posted on Fri 05 July 2013 in Python • Tagged with Coding, FSOSS, PostgreSQL, Python, coding, fsoss, postgresql, python
On August 10, 2013, I'll be giving a twenty-minute talk at PyCon Canada on A Flask of full-text search with PostgreSQL. I'm very excited to be talking about Python, at a Python conference, and to be giving the Python audience a peek at PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities. With a twenty …
Posted on Mon 26 December 2011 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Evergreen, FSOSS
A few days ago I made a small donation to the Software Freedom Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the United States. There are many organizations to which I could have donated, and indeed Lynn and I have donated to a number of charities again this year …
Posted on Sun 27 June 2010 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Android, FSOSS
This conversation on identi.ca has prompted me to publish the rough notes I had prepared for a proposed discussion on making the Android operating system experience more free-as-in-freedom at the Google I/O 2010 Conference Bootcamp "unconference". Unfortunately, my proposal was not one of the top vote-getters (it missed …
Dear Dan:
You felt pretty pleased with yourself for jumping on the latest Ubuntu release back in the alpha stages on your virtual machine, then having it running on your laptop and Lynn's Asus EEE 701 the day after the final release came out.
But did you ever have to …
Posted on Thu 23 October 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, FSOSS
In a few minutes I'll be giving a talk with John Fink at the Free Software Open Source Symposium at Seneca College on Evergreen: an enterprise-strength OSS solution for library ossification. I'm jazzed!
Here are the slides: (ODP format) (PDF format).