A new 2006 law shifts responsibility for having snow tires on the car entirely to the operator. Most rental car companies do not equip their cars with snow tires by default. Extra charges of up to €15/day apply. If you do not specifically ask for snow tires before you pay for the rental, you will [...]

The presentation slides from the 30th Internationalization and Unicode Conference are available right here.
The presentation slides from the Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies are available right here.

The boom of the 90’s attracted many moderately talented gold diggers to becoming software engineers. Consequently, after the bust, the IT labor market today is flooded with people who have no concept of engineering techniques and quality of design. At the same time in corporate-land, the software-development-as-a-commodity mindset has created a similar situation at [...]