After several months of inactivity I am in the process of developing a new autonomous boat. This time around I am fixing several errors made in the first prototype. It will be a catamaran, which will make it quite a bit more stable. The solar panels will increase from 5 watt to 10 watt, and I am adding another battery. I am also making additions to the electronics package.

Nothing is quite as good as resource exhaustion for separating the well adapted from those not so well adapted. We are now in the grips of a recession which will no doubt challenge the IT industry. It is not the time for groundbreaking new technology, but it is the time to consider what is really of value in the IT field. Increasingly businesses are seeing value in solutions enabled by Open Source Software.

An article on BBC News asks "Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt ". Should we kill healthy people for their organs? Are you the same person who started reading this article? Is that really a computer screen in front of you? Did you really choose to read this article? Answers to these questions below.

The Waterfall approach to Quality is to leave it to the end of the development to test for quality. The inevitable result is that the defects found need to be given back to developers. Since the testing occurs near the end of development this puts huge pressure on developers who are then more lightly to make further mistakes.

We must change the culture of software development that makes the quality of the product the responsibility of testers. The people that have the real power to ensure quality are the analysts and developers. This is an easy concept to understand, however the pressure of the business or customers