jasm in chochurro writes that David Bravo has just published his book, Copia este libro (Copy this book) under the Creative Commons licence. Not surprisingly from the title it is about P2P networks and copyright which is as much an issue in Spain as in the English speaking world. Everyone who feels that the copyright laws are more to the benefit of the distributor than the creator or audience is encouraged to download the book.
jasm in chochurro writes a short piece on the need for developers (of any thing) to pay more attention to the people who use the product. He contrasts the term 'users' with the term 'people who use' the product or service.
JorgeBec in Ingenieria de Software writes that MoproSoft is a quality model specially designed for the IT industry and is just about to be published as a law in Mexico. He wishes it every success.
diego sevilla in diego sevilla writes that he was writing a little script in Perl to perform a certain calculation when he came up with an interesting result. Suppose you have a list of integers in @a, what does the following code do?
map {$_>2&&push@b,$_} @a;
print $b[0];
The answer published in the comments is that array @b gets populated with all the elements in the array @a that are greater than 2 and the first element of array @b is printed.
Juan Palacio in Navegapolis writes on the evolution of the various methodologies are used in the IT industry which appear to be converging to similar end points from their very different beginnings.
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