Tag Open Source

6 Ways Learning Linux Can Help You in 2009

In this recession, it’s important to invest heavily in yourself.
I want to make the argument that by taking steps to learn about Linux, and using it at home, you are actually investing your time by making a good investment in solid skills and that you will gain perspectives that will help you for the future.
For [...]

Thinking About The Newsstand of The Future

Following along with some more PodCamp Toronto discussion that happened this past weekend (most of it at the party sponsored by Molson), a lot of the content at the sessions that happened tended to lean on what might make an important topic at other unconference to come.
The problem of perception.

So much of the session topics [...]

Languages Evolve, Twitter’s Should Too

In case you hadn’t known this before, @ reply’s weren’t a feature on Twitter originally.  It was something user’s had started to do to help give context to their tweets.  That was a very important evolutionary step for Twitter, because Twitter as the “communications” tool wouldn’t exist as it does today without the ability for [...]