dave's blog

A few people in the NZ (and worldwide) are getting upset by the increasingly intense grass-roots rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).

If you live in the connected western world, their cloud of brand identities is in your face all the time. They are (most of) the airwaves. They are the chain stores.

My brother (from the US) left today after a quick visit with our family tacked on to a business trip.

So today it occurred to me as I was doing web development on several different Vagrant instances simultaneously on my work laptop, that it'd be very convenient to have a single wildcard domain

If your educational institution is looking for (as all institutions should be nowadays!) a system for Digital Asset Management (DAM) to complement your Learning Management System (LMS) this is for

I don't use a lot of proprietary software, but I know a lot of people who do.

My response to Ian's blog post supporting online voting:

Last week I was able to participate in a "deputation" of concerned citizens (who happen to have a pretty strong set of software development credentials, as well as running bespoke develop

A democratic society can only function when the actors in that democracy, the citizen/voters, have trust in the mechanisms of that democracy.

Greg James of IRD (NZ's tax department for anyone not from NZ) has chosen to replace the current obsolete, unmaintainable monolithic bespoke software system