Here's an interesting article, "Cheating in Computer Science", that was recently posted on the IAEP mailing list. It's quite short and the problems it describes are worth mulling over:

• Why do we call "cheating" what will later in life be called "collaborating" and be a critical quality for success?
• Why …

Eek! Looking through my old drafts I can't believe I forgot to post this. I was waiting for the LWN link to become available to all -- but I guess it's never too late to share the awesome.

Article: GUADEC: Banshee project reaches out for contributors (LWN)

This is the summary …

I'm after "spring" cleaning a little the website. A bit of CSS here, updating some Django code there, adding a couple of icons and creating new pages. It's a bit sad how short the "Speaking & Writing" page ended up being! A clear path for improvement in 2011.

In other news …

It's the first Malcolm Gladwell book I read and I'm well impressed. It's a pleasant read that challenges various preconceptions. It does seem heavily based on anecdotes but I think the people used as examples illustrate the points made well enough. The overall style of the book often reminded me …

I just got home back from Berlin, where I participated in my first HackFest.