Author Archives: melissa
The Cat’s Tongue
Documentation is good and all, but it’s not much good if you can’t understand a word of it. I’ve often said that man pages are great if you’ve learned how to read man pages, and people often cite man man … Continue reading
Open Source Library system threatened by trademark
Koha is an open source library management system that has been around for about 12 years. It began its life when a rural New Zealand library decided to bake their own system rather than change to something else. The Horowhenua … Continue reading
Countries and avatars and PEARs
Nearly three months ago now I left Australia and moved to New Zealand. I was fortunate enough to essentially transfer within the company I work for, so it was reasonably painless (except for the 9 weeks of waiting for my … Continue reading
Ouch, my brain…
I’m in the web development business. I realise fully that consolidating signon stuff is complex and all that but surely, surely, there’s got to be something better than this: Clicking a login link on Ubuntu wiki to tend to a … Continue reading
