In case you lead a life which doesn’t take you into the corners of the Internet and don’t have even a little toe in the Free Software movement I’ll tell you who RMS is. RMS stands for Richard M. Stallman and he is the President of the Free Software Foundation. RMS popularized the “Free as
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I recently stumbled on a Java/.Net open source project called BouncyCastle when I was running into issues using Microsoft’s implementations of RSA in the .Net Framework. I thought to myself, “Open source to the rescue again!”, Boy was I wrong. Let me go on records as saying it’s a good project and has a ton
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On Friday a blog post from Joel Spolsky hit Slashdot. This post from Joel was a good read and centered around using programmers who, “Just get the job done”, or as Joel referred to them as Duct Tape Programmers. The gist of the post centered around not worrying about n layers of abstraction to complete
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