Wow, I ignored my RSS feeds for a few days and returned to find quite a discussion about security flaws in the PHP Security Consortium's Security Guide. I bring this up not to re-hash the juicy interpersonal stuff that surfaced in the conversations around this, but merely to help bring to light the delicate balance […]

I just read about this over at ForeverGeek: a very cool set of components that you can use together to create a portable wifi hotspot! I'm reminded of MacGyver: small solar panels, a cigarette lighter adapter, a cell signal and a few other gadgets are all you need! It's a bit pricey right now, but […]

I imagine that Bruce Perens will spend much of the day in celebration: the European Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the software patents directive today in a landslide vote, 648-14.
"We buried a bad law and did so without flowers,'' said Eva Lichtenberger, an Austrian member of the parliament's Green group. "The legislation would have hindered the development […]

Thinking ahead to the development of programmingphp.com. It will be run with a wiki, but which wiki? phpDirectory has a good list of the more popular open source wiki applications. I was wavering between MediaWiki and DokuWiki, but I think this SitePoint blog post has just moved DokuWiki into first place. DokuWiki also has a […]

I'm very happy that PHP recently celebrated it's 10th anniversary, but I get that same news item fed to me at least once a day. Is it a problem with the feed, or with Thunderbird? The issue seems limited to just this feed. In any case, I have removed it from my list of RSS […]