Monthly Archives: June 2005

HOWTO: Using the Personal Journal in Lotus Notes

There’s this database template in Notes by the name of Personal Journal, that’s invaluable for managing information. I don’t know what release of Notes this was introduced in, but those of you using R6 and up should find it. Well, … Continue reading

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On reverse-engineering, patents and open source.

Bryan Cantrill, kernel engineer extraordinaire and co-author of Dtrace, blogged his thoughts about reverse-engineering and patents in the context of Linus moving the Linux kernel souce code mgmt system from BitKeeper. I (like many engineers, I suspect) view reverse engineering … Continue reading

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