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What better endorsement can PHP as a language and symfony as an enterprise framework for that language get than Yahoo! building the new delicious service with them. That’s the news from the official symfony blog, where they also note Yahoo! will be contributing their bug fixes and extensions back to the symfony community.
SitePoint just released their Ruby on Rails book as a free download. Grab a copy while it’s available.
I’m pretty sure Amazon has hired some psychics and hooked them up to the internet. Today I followed a link to Beautiful Code, the website of a newly published book about how great modern programmers think. I decided it looked interesting, and clicked the link to O’Reilly’s store, where the book is $44.95. Wondering if [...]
Exposé is an OS X feature that lets you see all open windows on screen at once, then quickly bring the one you need forward. Like Flip3D, this clone for Windows Vista uses Aero for beautiful transitions and live window screenshots, but unlike Flip3D, is actually useful. Try it out, it’s free and only 350KB.
It really does feel like the 90s again, and this time I’m old enough to be in the workforce. IT workers are in high demand while their numbers drop, leading companies to return to jeans and bean bag environments to keep us happy. My employer’s working hard on perks to keep morale up as any [...]
I’ve had Snap.com previews enabled on this blog for a while — it’s what makes a site preview pop up when you mouse over a link to an external site. I just ran across a link to this site on another blog with Snap and was surprised to see something very different appear when I [...]
It crashed the first time I ran it. It has its own UI; no Aero title bar, menus, buttons or scroll bars. I can’t close it by double clicking in the upper left corner of my screen. It’s too thick with its font antialiasing. But it runs on Windows, which means I don’t need a [...]
One of the stupidest opinions to ever be published in a newspaper.
I somehow stumbled into a blog debate of Vista DRM today which led me to A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, a lengthy but extremely interesting look into the world of Vista’s content protection measures. The author, security researcher Peter Gutmann, sums up the document as follows: The Vista Content Protection specification could [...]
