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Archive for November, 2006

Ubuntu @ Google

Posted on November 13th, 2006 by Carel

Filed under Technology

Recently Mark Shuttleworth hosted the Ubuntu Linux Developer’s Summit at Google in Mountain View.

You can view his presentation on Google Video. Btw, the Google Developer’s site is an interesting place to find APIs for Google and other cool sites and tools.
My teenage son uses Ubuntu on his Dell PC and so far he can do […]

Ruby, Squeak and Alice

Posted on November 10th, 2006 by Carel

Filed under Technology

A few months ago my 11 year old son asked me to teach him to program. Now I’ve tried this before — last time I pointed him to the Squeak website and said go forth and program. Unfortunately it wasn’t that easy. So over the last couple of months we’ve tried the following […]

IT Matters and my top 10 list

Posted on November 9th, 2006 by Carel

Filed under Business, Charity, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Technology

On October 26, 2006 I had the privilege of presenting a guest lecture to the students at the College of IT at Georgia Southern University (GSU). I would like to thank Dr. Sonny Butler for inviting me. Below are the 10 main points I presented. My purpose was not to promote any specific technology […]


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