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On the WordPress move

May 29, 2006

After many years of using my own blog soft­ware, some­thing I had writ­ten myself and tended to over the years, I finally threw the towel in and decided to upgrade. Here are a few things that I learned in the process. Mak­ing the Deci­sion The first, and prob­a­bly tough­est, part of this migra­tion was to actu­ally make the jump. […]

Modular by Design — Software

August 14, 2004

So far, we’ve talked about the impact of a mod­u­lar approach on exist­ing busi­ness mod­els out­side of the soft­ware indus­try. Today, we delve in on the indus­try most asso­ci­ated with mod­u­lar design: soft­ware. Cer­tain soft­ware com­pa­nies have been suf­fer­ing from the advance of mod­u­lar­ity in soft­ware design. The main one, to date, has been Microsoft with […]

E-voting and the Open Source community

July 23, 2004

Today’s New York Times has an edi­to­r­ial that puts together a rough set of require­ments for E-voting machines: Phys­i­cal secu­rity for elec­tronic sys­tems Rig­or­ous test­ing of elec­tronic machines Prop­erly trained poll work­ers, and rapid-response teams on Elec­tion Day Pub­lic records at the precinct level The option to vote non-electronically Inde­pen­dent secu­rity experts Trans­parency in elec­tronic vot­ing Looking […]

TNL.net moves off Windows

April 9, 2003

Over the past year, it has seemed like TNL.net had gone quiet. Few updates were made to the site and fewer newslet­ters were being pub­lished. Behind the scene, how­ever, I was busy rebuild­ing the site from the ground up. The new TNL.net was relaunched in late Jan­u­ary 2003, about a month behind the sched­ule I had orig­i­nally set. […]

Seeing Red

August 5, 2001

Last week, for the sec­ond week in a row, IIS admin­is­tra­tors have had to face Code Red. More than a sim­ple virus, Code Red could rep­re­sent a new accel­er­a­tion in the online virus war and shows that we may not be ready, as an indus­try, for the era of web ser­vices. A Rapid Epi­demic Now that I’ve got […]

MS-DOJ Talks Falter: So What?

April 2, 2000

Microsoft and the Depart­ment of Jus­tice fail to come to an agree­ment, insur­ing that Microsoft will be seen as a monopoly.