Richard Houle

Whether you like it or not, JavaScript has carved out a place for itself in contemporary computing. It has become a bit of a must. But where does it come from? How did it go from being a second-rate language to one of the most widely used languages…

The empire we will study this week is a real monster. IBM. The so-called “Big Blue” has often been the preferred supplier for countless companies. It was once said that no one has ever been fired for buying IBM products. But today, even…

The next empire we will study in the “Ne obliviscaris” series is Xerox.

Ne obliviscaris. If you have ever visited the lobby of the Parliament Building in Quebec City, you may have noticed this sentence on the Marquis of Lorne’s coat of arms: “Beware of forgetting”. Although this phrase was written over…