amazing things

For the past few years, we've had a bit of a New Year's tradition here at Techdirt. The "final" post I put up for the year is a discussion on, well, awesomeness.

Three years ago, it was "on staying happy", in response to people complaining that reading Techdirt made them upset, and wondering how I kept writing for it.

In a follow up to his previous post about how PHP is broken (and what can be done to fix it), Court Ewing has this new post with a few suggestions on how PHP development could be better, but admits that PHP itself is not broken.

Tech Comics: "Software, especially when it is super sophisticated, can do some amazing things. Or not."

IT News Today: "One of the most amazing things about the IT industry is some of the braindead things some companies publish on their public blogs.

Recently, Dell has went back and forth from basically saying that Ubuntu is a better choice than Windows, and then saying the opposite."

Nvidia's laptop-oriented video-switching technology makes some amazing things possible—as the company recently demonstrated.

IT News Today: "From what I have seen so far, not much has actually changed on the surface, though this version has laid the groundwork for some amazing things to come later on."

Keith Casey has posted about user group involvement in this year's CodeWorks conference and their selection of a local speaker to round out their local event.