Richard Stallman. That’s right.  Now, there are many things that the man has done that have been effective, and the man has worked hard to ensure that we have freedom in the vast world of software.  But recently, he has stated that Miguel de Icaza “is basically a traitor to the free software community,” and [...]

Yeah, alright.  Those are words I would never have thought I’d see in a title in a blog post, “thanks to Microsoft.”  But, it is true.  Microsoft is adding C# and the CLI to the list of technologies that it promises it will not sue for.  This is Microsoft’s “Community Promise”, which means that to [...]

Since 1996, when I was introduced to the concept of free software and the GNU/Linux operating system (in the form of Slackware), I started to take a look around and found myself amazed at what was the free software community then. Watching it build massively amazing pieces of software that are second to none in [...]

So, I was dinking around in Google Reader yesterday and reading my Daily WTF, when I came across this wonderful post. Of course, upon seeing the code listed in that post, I nearly excremented bricks, the code listed there being obviously stupid (I would so fire anyone that used 14 levels of nested if statements [...]

I used to write a lot of projects in PHP when I was working for creating a Web interface to something. However, I recently have spent some time learning other languages—C# and Java being two of them—and am beginning to realize that I think I would rather use one of them for creating anything larger [...]

I just read a post online answering the question of why one “bothers” with Linux. I have to say that I fall into a mixture of his categories as well. The main reason that I use GNU/Linux is that of freedom. I don’t like being told what I am allowed to do with my computer, [...]