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FISL

FISL stands for Forum Internacional do Software Livre, that is, the International Free Software Forum.

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We are happy to anounce that SWATLabs, the showcase for the proof of concept applications that SWAT develops, has now gone live!

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Rafiq Phillips and I attended an event where the winner of the Mxit PC Client competition was announced. The event was held in Stellenbosch, a beautiful university town in the Cape Winelands, and home to Mxit. But this post is not about the event itself – it is about the reporting of the event.

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This review has been pending for a while, but recently I finished reading Derick Rethans’ book: Date and Time Programming. At first glance the topic of the book might lead you to think “why do I need a book to teach me about such a simple topic” ? But further investigation and hard experience will show you that handling date and time in software development is not always as straightforward as “Its twelve o’clock”.

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