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Archive - Postings By Date

> 2010

August - RESTful and Didn't Know It July - Heores get the Blame June - Visiting VMWare Virtualization 2010 May (late) - A Server by Any Other Name May (early) - Innovative Techniques: The Draco Legacy April - The Lone Coder with a Middle-class Dream March - Welcome to Our Meeting February - The Facebook Generation January - Prioritizing Solutions on Difficult Projects

> 2009

December - The Business Shell in an Age of Hype November - Dark Architecture October - VirtualBox on Vista with a Gentoo Guest September - Tasque: Keep it Simple July - Paper, Plastic or Sound Design? April - The Cost Risk of Programming Standards March - Bad Docs or Adventures in Linux RAID-land February - "Clean Code": Agile Handbook or Engineering Attack?

> 2008

December - 12 Really Bad open Source Project Names November - When Web Scripts Appear to Scale October - Is Linux Ready for the Future? September - Writing Computer Books and Bill C-61 August - The End of the Desktop? July - Project Mis-Management: Taskjuggler Drops the Ball June - Doing it Right with the Business Shell May - Doing it Right or Doing it Wrong? March - Linux on Windows? Try coLinux February - The ACM Lost Its Way January - The Faces of Facebook

> 2007

December (late) - 2007 Open Source year in Review December (early) - The Canadian Shield November - The Diversi Effect October - Another Tale of Two Interviews September - A Tale of Two Tests: Effective Interview Testing August - If Free is Illegal, Who's the Pirate? July - Kartoo: Visualizing the Internet June - Linux and the Media: The Truth is Out There May - Good Customer Service, Good Business April - The Business Shell Evolution Blues February - The Perfect SuSE Firewall Setup January - The Cost of Education without Ethics

> 2006

December - Microsoft and Novell: The Battle of the Suits November - The Ada Open Source Family Feud October - 10 Common PHP Problems September - The PegaSoft Revolutionary Karaoke Polka August - The Open Source Guide to the Solar System July - Web Page Kung Fu: Self-Defense for Web Design Fraud June - A Lone Coder in a Big Pond May - The Temptation of Warcraft April - Life After the Bubble Burst March - Keeping Up To Date with Unison February - Google: Lawful Good or Chaotic Neutral? January - The Tyranny of the Label

> 2005

December - Losing Control of your Linux Startup November - OpenSuSE 10: Developer Dream or Crippleware? October - In Mourning of Statftime September - The Need for Speed: PHP Roadblocks to Serious Web Development July - The Search for the Hatchet Man June - IT Hiring: We Don't Want the Best May - Communications are Down April - Programming in the Real World March (late) - Open Source: Where is the Innovation? March (early) - Are Red Hats Out of Fashion? February - ABEE in the Uncanny Valley

> 2004

December - Painful XML November - Business Shell: Critics say "I Don't Get It" October - The Big Bad High Speed Providers August - Hats Off to White Hat July - The Failure of Fedora