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Programming:PHP – Wikibooks has a handy little guide for setting up your PHP developer environment and getting started.

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.

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.

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.

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 an ongoing community art project. People from around the world share their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.”

JavaWorld: Java security evolution and concepts, Part 4.

Yahoo News is one of the original aggregators with content partners and a lean editorial staff. Now they’ve made RSS feeds painless and integrated more technology into news than ever.

A must read.