If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I’m at OSDC in Brisbane this week. Yesterday I presented my half-day tutorial on Test Driven Development, and promised I would put the slides online. Here they are.
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Meet Hervé Soksok, Vanuatu’s first GPS-toting, creative-commons-licensing community cartographer.
I ran into Hervé at Wan Smolbag’s computer centre a few weeks ago and we swapped email addresses. He’s been attending daily computer classes there, where he spends an hour each day learning basic computer skills and — I suspect — finds the time for [...]
A giant thank you to all the geeks who donated books to Vanuatu. Here’s a photo of the results:
I carried these back to Vanuatu in my checked luggage: one box (ex copying paper) taped to within an inch of its life and holding 20kg, and another 5kg or so in my backpack. [...]
One thing I’m learning about life in Vanuatu is that everything moves slowly. Especially bits, up and down to the satellite that provides net access here. My connectivity is graciously provided by CNS, where I have a patch of desk in a corner, and I come in for a few hours each [...]
Burao flower
I’m off to Pentecost Island for 5 days or more. It’s a remote area with no intertubes, so I’ll be incommunicado til I get back.
Pentecost is known as the original home of bungee jumping but around here people mostly talk about the beautiful baskets woven by the Pentecost women.
I’ll be back next [...]
This is a short video I made in Vanuatu, with the kids who live next door to Dan’s place:
Here’s a transcription of most of what they’re saying; they’re speaking Bislama. Translation is left as an exercise for the reader.
Ameline: Halo! [???]
Angeline: Halo, nem blong mi Angeline.
Rayline: Halo, nem [...]
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