Seven Secrets of Successful Programmers
It is one of the most pervasive misunderstandings in computing that the source code is for the computer's consumption.
View ArticleNeed for speed
Auckland City has responded to the broadband challenge issued by central government and today endorsed further investigation of options to achieve full-speed broadband at significantly lower costs for...
View Articlecellular-news | New Zealand Testing Dynamic Optimization of Mobile Networks
Dynamic optimization, which has significant implications for mobile network operators around the world, is being tested on Telecom New Zealand's commercial 027 network in the Lower Hutt, Taranaki, Bay...
View ArticleRed Hat cancels Fedora Foundation: Builder AU: Program: At Work
Red Hat has dismantled the Fedora Foundation, an initiative conceived as an entity to provide intellectual-property protections to the open-source realm but whose mission grew impractically broad.
View ArticleNew Zealand's source for technology news on Stuff.co.nz: Text message charges...
Vodafone is tripling the charge for New Zealand post-paid cellphone customers to send a text message back to New Zealand from Australia, from 20 cents to about 64 cents.
View ArticleThe State of Linux: Substantial Growth in New Zealand
Much of the continued explosive growth of Linux adoption in New Zealand and Australia remains unseen, unannounced and often behind the scenes.
View ArticleUseless, absurd, must, need, appalled, just, infuriating, essential, etc. -...
While we appreciate customers who take the time to write in and tell us what they want, the way people phrase things often leads to raised eyebrows. Every feature that’s missing is essential, a...
View ArticleThe Rolling Stones at Western Springs - 17 Apr 2006 - Rolling Stones tour
Talking of predictability, Canadian pop-metallers Nickelback were an incongruous opener, one bullshit power ballad after another.
View ArticleFestival Primers: our most anticipated in top tens
With programmes already browsed, checked, underlined and dotted since their release to the public earlier this week, our own personal must-sees from the 160+ strong lineup have invariable made their...
View ArticleMy Boring Ass Life » The Red Bank Stash Signing: A Day That Will Live in Infamy
And after a moment’s fancy of the Asbury Park Press headline that might read “Clerks-Guy Has Fan Rolled by Cops”, I say to Walt “Let’s move the sign. Put it at the end of the two hundred people.”
View ArticleOpen Source Symposium - Auckland
Open Source has reached a level of awareness and deployment that Red Hat together with IDC is bringing you the inaugural Open Source Symposium (OSS) 2006. This is THE show that will introduce you to...
View Article» MobiCamp - Coolz0r - Marketing Thoughts
MobiCamp is like BarCamp or FooCamp or CaseCamp, but then for the mobile industry and people who’re interested in mobile solutions. MobiCamp is a no-holds-barred school of mobile thought—and one you...
View Article'Ah men,' sigh lone church women - New Zealand's source for oddstuff -...
A man drought has hit the church and could be pushing some single women away. The shortage is so dire that Christian women are being forced outside the church or are getting into unsuitable...
View ArticleCheap Trick playing Wellington
No group of musicians more perfectly bridged British Invasion pop and American punk than Cheap Trick. For more than 30 years Cheap Trick have been the de facto heroes of American rock’n’roll. They have...
View ArticleU2 Performance Photos from 24 November 2006
I never made it to the gig - but the photos sure look good...
View ArticleDatabase Migrations with Maven
In order to learn more about using Apache Maven beyond a more 'simple' build, I decided to build a maven plugin, or mojo as they're called to wrap my simple database migration library. Now it's as easy...
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