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Jeff Waugh (of GNOME fame) speaking in Cyberjaya tomorrow

What?
Jeff Waugh is speaking in:
OSCC, Cyberjaya
at
10.30am, 2nd August 2008
about
Free Software Development
specifically
sharing his experiences developing free software and talking about hacking cool stuff (like the wii remote)
Why is the notice sent so late?
It wouldn’t be the Malaysian way of doing things if it was actually sent on time, eh?
Also, we were up late last night doing [...]


Barcamp.my, Day 2

So Day 2 of Barcamp started off late again for me. Or if you have been following my twitter messages, perhaps you may argue that it was early for me. Oh toh-mah-toh, toe-mae-toe. In any case, I was in time for my talk at 11am, “The Malaysian Free Software Community”. Well, almost. While I was [...]


CouchDB accepted as Apache Software Foundation Incubator project

I’m surprised this hasn’t received more news yet: CouchDB has been accepted as an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) incubator project! Here is the email:
On Feb 9, 2008 11:09 AM, Sam Ruby <rubys@apache.org> wrote:
> We’ve had an initial discussion, which attracted a number of messages
> of encouragement, and identified no issues or concerns. Then we
> [...]


The Maximum Subsequence Problem

This makes for a good programming puzzle:
“Given a sequence of numbers, find the maximum sum of a subsequence of those numbers“
Solution available hereĀ  (try it before looking at the solution).