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16 May 2013
Measuring project effort in something other than Lines-Of-Code

It occurred to me recently that when it comes to a software project – it takes more than just code to make it successful but at the same time we typically only measure the scope of a software project in lines of code (LOCs). In most organisations it’s laughed at as an official measure of [...] Read more

9 May 2013
Whee, I got DDOSed

Once a month I archive my Apache logs. Which involves downloading them from the server and analysing them a little. This month (last month actually, I am slow with my blogging) there was something obviously unusual from the beginning: instead of the typical six or seven logrotated 50MB access logs I had 15. While I [...] Read more

28 March 2013
APNG in Chromium

Max Stepin (the APNG maintainer) has added APNG support to Chromium. Good job, man! Read more

Who is Andrew Smith?

And what's a solutions engineer? My goal in life is to design and develop solutions for people - to make them less frustrated, to give them better tools, to let them concentrate on more important things.

I'm an engineer specializing in Linux and open source software: I use it as a platform to create desktop, server, and embedded device applications, libraries, and services.

If you have a question about my work - by all means contact me, I'll be happy to talk to you about it.

Latest Website Update

This entire website is new! I used some CSS from templatemo.com and made something nicer than a hello world index page.

2005 - Toronto-Niagara
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Four day bike ride from Toronto to Niagara Falls and back. Read more