steve purkiss

I’ve been missing the old open4.org - open for organizations - what I liked to call a ‘Plain English Guide to Open Source Software’.
Unfortunately open4.org died a death because I enjoyed helping people out so much I didn’t focus enough on creating a sustainable business model out of it.
Using the wonderful WaybackMachine I see ‘open [...]

One of the biggest pains I’ve had of late is not being able to use sites like seesmic from my GNU/Linux partition because Adobe don’t provide support for it yet. I’ve found a hack though, and it works a treat!
Thanks to Kosso for pointing me to The Flashcam Project, which provides all the info to [...]

As you may have previously heard, whenever you look into learning a new programming language it is customary to create a program which outputs “Hello, World!”. For me, starting a blog is very much like learning a new programming language - I had to work out which tools I wanted to use, how to use [...]