Wow.  It has been a while since I’ve written here.
I’ve been busy with an identity management project which is transitioning from development to testing.  For this transition, I needed to deploy my work to a test environment which more closely matches what the client is running.  Now, this is a standard Java web application with [...]

There is a story that has been making the rounds on tech sites about Rogers, one of the two major ISPs in Canada (the other, of course, is Bell).  Apparently, they’ve begun hijacking DNS in order to provide a “helpful” search for domain names that don’t resolve…  which is, of course, filled with their advertisements.  [...]

I found a really cool story here.
Turns out that the Fedora Project is rolling out a new system called “Fedora Talk” that allows contributors to sign in using standard VoIP hardware and software to talk to other Fedora contributors.  I think this is a really cool idea and a great application of VoIP technologies.  While [...]

Just caught this article as I was reading technology news this morning.  Apparently, Best Buy will soon be selling Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in a retail box, with manual, quick start guide, and 2 months of support, all for $19.99.  It certainly beats the pants off of the pricing for Vista.
Ubuntu has made some excellent progress [...]

The fine folks behind TOJam have finally posted all of the games from this year’s jam. Among them is the game we created that weekend: “Mousetrap Mania“. We’re quite proud of how it turned out.
The game was semi-inspired by “ChuChu Rocket!“, a quirky puzzle game for the Sega Dreamcast that was developed by [...]

Michael and I very often browse Reddit for interesting articles on all sorts of topics, including computer science and IT.  Today, I was looking through Programming Reddit as usual and the link at the top of the front page was to this site.  Reddit has made their code available through a public git repository and [...]

We’re back from TOJam!
It really was a crazy weekend. We worked day and night from Friday evening all the way up to the Sunday evening deadline. There were the highs and lows throughout: sometimes things were going well and on schedule and we were feeling extremely productive and sometimes we were pushing through [...]

Michael and I are registered for TOJam 3, an indie game development jam held annually in downtown Toronto. The jam is a mad three-day dash to create small, polished, fun games. The games need to follow a theme (this year’s theme is cheese) and must incorporate some images and sounds, such as a [...]

Sun recently acquired MySQL, a gutsy move that some might interpret as a slap in the face to Oracle. Oracle’s database has been a key part of enterprise Java software stacks for a long time and, until this point, a relational database was one of the few things that Sun did not directly provide [...]

Jeff Atwood recently wrote about what he calls The First Rule of Programming: it’s always your fault. That is, we should resist the temptation to blame the OS, the tools, the framework, and other technologies when the problem might still lie with our own code. To explain some of the merit in this [...]