Google has announced their web browser Chrome. Many are excited while others remain skeptical. Currently I'm both; but a recent discovery has swayed me towards skeptical. Here's why. read more

This awesome song by my colleague and friend Ian Rhett moved me. Digg it here.

Almost a month ago I blogged about how much spam I receive. At that time it was around one spam email per 100 seconds (average over the previous month). Since then I've updated my crude spam rate tracker twice and I'm now receiving approximately one spam every 90 seconds. If you look at the numbers carefully you'll noticed that today's count was less for all mailboxes except one; N L AR, the catch-all address for lucion.

This video is a graphic summary of what the Hub is; It has been a real pleasure working with the Witness team at CivicActions on the Hub. I've been working on google maps and geodata integration, all of which boils down to the Hub Map. The next feature I'm currently working on is a full-screen map. I should have blogged this 8 days ago on international Human Rights day, but I had a good excuse (I was in Australia).

Here are my recently learnt tips for advanced usage of the wonderful Webpack --hot does not do would you would expect. webpack --watch and webpack-dev-server do what you'd expect --hot to do, even without that option. --lazy stops WDS from doing what you'd expect --hot to do. --hot allows modules (files) to be updated in place, without reloading the webpage. --open is pretty handy --inline can be moved to webpack.

The late breaking news ripping through the twitter-sphere and hitting the blogosphere is that Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic and creator of open-source blogging system WordPress... raised a whopping $29.5 million in a Series B Round of funding, including a strategic investment from The New York Times Co. True Ventures led the round, which includes previous investors Polaris Ventures and Radar Ventures. (Full disclosure: both Automattic and GigaOM are backed by True Ventures.

I was recently discussing the problems of software security and code quality. These articles inspired the conversation; Everything is Broken, a sincere recount of the awfulness of almost all software. They Write the Right Stuff, how the Shuttle Group makes nearly-perfect software for NASA space shuttles. The Explosion of the Ariane 5 was because of a software bug. There are lessons for us software engineers/teams in these articles, especially in “They Write the Right Stuff”.

Xero is another accounting application that competes with the likes of Quicken and MYOB. It isn't the first application-as-a-service in this market, but it is, IMO the best. I hate accounting, numbers and tracking invoices and bills. But I don't like paying accountants to do it for me either. However the folk at Xero got everything right in automating an otherwise boring task that you normally pay $1000 of dollar for an accountant to do.

This one is from the description of the exhibit module on drupal.org. It made me laugh! :) Note: This is experimental software meant for advanced users; assume nothing works, and you may be pleasantly surprised. And when it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.

While there were many great presentations at DrupalCon DC, Young Hahn's Limitations of the Drupal Theme Layer was the only one that blew me away. Most of the session attendees and readers of the related blog post seem to miss his main point; a proposal for a rule-based theme layer. read more