Two provincial government websites as well as Quebec Liberal Party and Education Ministry websites went down early Saturday morning and remained inaccessible for most of the day. No one has claimed responsibility for the downed sites but Twitter was full of rumours on Saturday pointing to Anonymous, the loose group of cyber activists. The cyber [...]

WikiLeaks and Swedish BitTorrent file-sharing site Pirate Bay were reportedly battling Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks for several days earlier this week. The user, who goes by the Twitter handle @AnonNyre, has been riling up members of the hacktivist group and supporters of TPB with a series of angry posts on Twitter, to the extent that Anonymous [...]

  Anonymous Hackers has turned its attention to India, taking down the web sites of the Supreme Court, the country’s two major political parties and several government sites in retaliation for a court injunction which led to the blocking of several video sharing and bit torrent sites. Anonymous tweeted saying that it was now India’s [...]

  We are hackers, and proud of it. Unfortunately, for many of those even reading this post you have a long-held belief that a “hacker” is a negative thing. It’s actually not. It’s actually a really good thing to have, both as a philosophy and as a functional way of thinking through problem solving. Although I’m not [...]

  I’m not sure what you believe about “destiny” but I have found it to be quite useless when it comes to building software. [...]

Our culture has grown incredibly comfortable with using beta software as if it’s a final product. On one level, it appears as if everyone benefits: Users get to use a product (typically for free) and get to participate in its evolution Software organizations are able to get free beta testing of their product while absolving themselves [...]

1. Success is Never Given Permission – No one cares more about your products than you do and you’ll never get the permission from anyone to be a success. The approval never actually comes. Do it anyway and scream with delight as you blow away expectations. 2. Iterate Like Your Life Depended on It – Build. Release. [...]

  One of the beautiful things about working with very entrepreneurial individuals is that the ground in which to plant leadership is already fertile. Make no mistake, it’s still not an easy thing to do! The challenge is a different kind of training and one that requires a lot of introspection on behalf of both [...]

  As a bootstrapped startup you’re sure to be short of one thing nearly always (at least for a period): Cash. So how exactly do you motivate people to jump on board with little promise of financial reward? The answer lies in visioncasting.   Some of the best leaders that I know are able to [...]

Envisioning the future is dangerous work – it’s all risk and there’s no immediate reward for it. It requires more of your heart and soul than skills, income, and business strategy. It has the potential to offend providing nothing more than a sliver of justification beyond “Because…” But it’s necessary in our line of work [...]