Salt is killing us!
April 10, 2007
An important study was released from Statistics Canada today. The report shows that Canadians, on average, eat way too much salt.
April 10, 2007
An important study was released from Statistics Canada today. The report shows that Canadians, on average, eat way too much salt.
April 9, 2007
Tom Purves has created a nice graph illustrating what I've suspected for a long time -- that Canada's wireless oligopolies are pricing services way out of line with what a competitive market would.
April 3, 2007
People always try to tell me that IIS / ASP / ASP.NET is just as stable as Apache / PHP. The Canada Post website has been down for hours, simply displaying: A ScriptEngine threw expection 'C0000005' in...
April 2, 2007
A common problem with software development project management is that most people don't really understand how it works. Programmers are often likened to construction workers.
March 23, 2007
I "banned" McDonald's food years ago, after living in Atlanta, Georgia and realizing that the food standards there were significantly below those in Canada.
March 15, 2007
I just read an article that summed up some common mistakes when starting a business that rung true to me. They mentioned the following (which I've put in the order I think is most important): Not focusing on the user...
March 11, 2007
I've created a web development summary chart comparing the major web application development platforms out there today.
February 18, 2007
Last week I closed two accounts at Bank of Montreal. The one account was a corporate chequing account I’d had with them for 4 years. The other account was opened when I was 13 years old.
February 9, 2007
Estimating software development time is hard. There are so many variables, unknowns, "unknown unknowns", and the specification always changes. Besides that, developers tend to be optimistic by nature.