Is Open Source Hindering the Development of Commercial Software?
December 1st, 2005 by Sarah KingDave Taylor has written a thought provoking article on whether “Open Source is Hindering the Development of Commercial Software?”.
My initial reaction was ofcourse not, if we had to rely on the corporates progress would be slowed significantly. But when you get down to the nitty gritty of Dave’s message you can see that the bureaucracy could indeed be causing problems. Read the rest of this entry »
Bash, KSH and Perl
November 28th, 2005 by Sarah KingI’ve been coding PHP for +5 years now, and it’s great. But from time to time you have to delve into other languages and systems and “get stuff done”.
This post is going to list the resources I’ve found most useful – as a guide for others and as a bookmark collection for myself. Read the rest of this entry »

