I was reading the news late last night, and I came across a new study put out by the NSA, Homeland Security, Microsoft and Symantec. The BBC article was entitled “Dangerous Coding Errors Revealed.” I found it interesting though, that the top four problems listed are all directly related to web applications–although the principles can [...]
Posted under Mediawiki Development, Misc Tech, Wikis by chad 14.01.2009
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Just before the New Year, I was in a round-table discussion with Andrew Lih and Liam Wyatt over at Wikipedia Weekly. We talked about a lot of things, but the first bit of it was by far my favorite bit. We got into a rather extensive discussion about usability (specifically the Stanton Grant) and the [...]
Posted under Mediawiki Development, Wikis by chad 05.01.2009
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Danny posted on his blog a piece about Fair Use within Wikipedia. While I don’t want to respond to the entire thing, he did raise one question that I feel deserves some mention: “And to any developers out there, would you allow any non-free components to be incorporated in the wiki-software as well, or can [...]
Posted under Free content, Free software, Mediawiki Development, Wikis by chad 16.12.2008
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