Monthly Archives: April 2005
WikiBooks Programming:PHP resource
Programming:PHP – Wikibooks has a handy little guide for setting up your PHP developer environment and getting started.
BusinessWeek starts a blog and declares “Blogs Will Change Your Business”
Unlike so many other articles that have been written on blogs, I find myself pleasantly surprised by Business Week’s latest. Not by its triumphant declaration, but its tidy summary of how participatory, on demand media will shake up and alter how companies, organizations, and people communicate.
Of course they start their own blog on the subject. The article reads like one long love letter to folks they want blogrolling it. Still, it’s a must read.
Interview with Bricolage founder David Wheeler
madpenguin.org: Small but mighty: little Bricolage carries a huge newsfeed. Bricolage is a content management system that has been around for ages and has quite a list of companies using it.
NPR for technologists
If you haven’t yet, you really want to check out IT Conversations. Listener supported audio interviews and programs on technology. A great example of Podcasting too.
Outsourcing jobs to a cruise ship
Sourcingmag.com: Practical Advice & Case Studies on IT Outsourcing: “Take a used cruise ship, plant it in international waters three miles off the coast of El Segundo, near Los Angeles, people it with 600 of the brightest software engineers they can find around the world (both men and women), and run a 24-hour-a-day programming shop, thereby avoiding H-1B visa hassles while still exploiting offshore labor cost arbitrage and completing development projects in half the time they’d take onshore or offshore.”
PostSecret is just fascinating
Get a high level overview of JAAS, JCE, and JSSE
JavaWorld: Java security evolution and concepts, Part 4.
Inside Yahoo News: Aggregator brings RSS to the masses
Putting the blinders on
Metafilter: Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report. This year’s report happens to raise concerns over our progress in the war on terror. So they cancelled it. Sad. Very sad.