Writing by Brent Rockwood
Halifax has plenty of coffee shops. Most every one of them offers free wireless internet access. When you think about it, this seems like a reasonable service to offer when your customers are willing to shell out five bucks for what is, essentially, a big glass of milk.
Unfortunately, Starbucks has recently partnered with Bell Canada [...]
On my product team we have been using the SCRUM methodology of software development for a while. For those of you not familiar with it, here is the oversimplified version…
Get a big list of all the things you want to do, prioritized by our customers (in our case by proxy via our product manager)
Estimate how many [...]
I will be attending the Canadian Higher Education and Information Technology conference at the University of Waterloo at the end of the month. I’m very interested to learn more about the challenges faced by universities and public institutions in general around the issues of governance and regulatory compliance, configuration management, and identity management. The smart [...]
I just finished reading an article on copyright by the always insightful Dare Obasanjo. I have many friends in the film and music businesses and I often end up trying to explain my thoughts on the issue. Here’s what I think…
I guess I have two issues, not with copyright per se (I am a software [...]
“Checking out names takes time—a couple of weeks in my case”
Tim Bray, The Open Source Process
I’ve heard this over and over. Anyone who has ever dealt with lawyers or the government while trying to do a trademark search or business name search or what have you has wondered…
Why does it take so long. Don’t they [...]
