dave's blog

Nearly every day, my kids come home from school and go on about some new app or game they and their mates are excited about.

These are the speaking notes to accompany my presentation to Christchurch City Council on the "Westmorland cycle connection" as part of the "

The following is a list of articles (in roughly reverse date order, most recent at the top) from (primarily) the Aoteoroa New Zealand media concerning public service IT, whether it be in government

I think this stadium concept  - a large, covered, 25-30k seat stadium, within the Central Business District (CBD) is a travesty, and a failure of leadership and good sense.

Today, waiting to meet a young friend to cycle to school with my younger boy and me, we watched the morning rush hour traffic on a fairly busy road between us and school.

I recently ran into an issue upgrading a Ubuntu 18.04-powered server I run. I usually run the following command:

The government of Aotearoa New Zealand has just put out a request for suggstions on shaping th

I'm a parent with two children in public schools in Christchurch, NZ. I'm also a software developer with an interest in education.

So, another community with which I have a long history as a paying member, this one with the mission of "preserving the free and open Internet" in my home country, has decided to adopt Slack as it'