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The problem with PHP

The meme of PHP's deeper language problems and possible extinction has bubbled to the surface again from various recent discussions, but my views on this are very different to what they used to be.…

Ignorance of Open Source

Francis Till comes down full fist slinging on Governments & Open Source, which turns out to be little more than another thinly veiled attack on the Green Party. Beyond the hot air and apparent…

The Missing Literary Traditions of Programming

Learning how to forget the properties of programming languages themselves, and think about the context of what is actually written in these languages.

Making Aotearoa New Zealand's Government Transparent

KiwiMP is an open source project aimed at opening up the information available about New Zealand's government and political processes: For all its faults and foibles, our democracy is a profound…

Room for improvement: Women in OSS

It just wouldn't be fair to ask where are the women in open source and criticize open source usability without providing some kind of summary of how we can do something about it. Humanized…