dave's blog

Advice for IT Graduates

Over the years, we've had lots of graduates (both young and old) turn up at our door asking for work as software developers or system administrators.

Creating a multi-resolution favicon including transparency with the GIMP

This morning, I decided to create a proper favicon, namely a multi-resolution favicon with transparency.

Open Source, the next generation at NZCSRSC08

On Wednesday, 16 April, I had the honour of giving the keynote talk to the NZ Computer Science Research Students' Conference at the

The Benefits of Open Source CMSs

Since 2005 when Egressive chose to adopt Drupal as our primary web application development platform, open source Content Management Systems (CMSs) have gone from strength to strength.

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