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Geeky at the Lake of Zurich

Microsoft and Open Source

Microsoft Switzerland invited to a short presentation and discussion round with Hank Janssen from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) in Redmond. He talked a little bit about their infrastructure (which is impressive and awesome by the way), projects Microsoft has contributed to and why they do it. I made a few notes and […]

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Twitter @reply is Broken by Bots

Twitter is popular. Twitter has a simple and powerful API. Twitter displays @cocaman on a special page. These three points are enough to make the @reply option vulnerable. Chris Messina, Chief Open Source Advocate and BarCamp co-inventor, recently updated his “my-name-is” homepage. My camichel.com site is very much influenced by his old design. I had […]

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