awesomeness

The latest episode of the "/dev/hell" podcast has been released - Episode 4: "The Cool Kids Club".

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.

Sometimes opportunities come along that you just can't pass up. Such as the case for me these days; I'll be leaving my job as Community Development Manager at SourceForge for a job at Engine Yard as the PHP Community Manager.

As you might have heard, Engine Yard recently acquired Orchestra, and as such, is making a splash in the PHP space.

It seems like only yesterday that

Jari Winberg points us to a big Billboard story about Metallica that has some quotes by the band about this whole internet thing.

You recall, of course, that Metallica became the poster-child for anti-internet activity, when it became the first to sue Napster, back in 2000.

Apparently magazine guys are all hurt at how the super-amazing Internet is f**king DESTROYING them with its awesomeness and unicorns with bacon wings

In a new post to his blog William shows you how to create a Popurls clone with the powerful combination of PHP and jQuery. Popurls is an aggregation site with some of the latest news and happenings from all around the web.

Not 403: "But it's sad to see how Oracle after Sun acquisition, is slowly shutting down this amazing open source project, marking it as "not strategic" and dismembering the few parts they think are worth for their own SSO product."

php|architect has published the latest episode in their "oddWeek" podcast series today - episode 5 with an interview with Matthew Turland.

Bring the mightiness of Vim to Firefox! If you're ready for a fully keyboard-driven browser, the Vimperator add-on for Firefox can help you do away with mouse-based drudgery and add the awesomeness of vi-like keybindings to Firefox 3.5 and later.