different perspective

Since SOPA and PIPA are US bills, the focus has naturally been on the US response to them – notably in the list of major sites that participated in the blackout, or who have otherwise protested against the proposed legislation.

But it's important to remember that the whole rationale of these new laws is tackling copyright infringement outside the US.

Some of you may have already heard that the ConFoo call for papers is already open.

The great thing about it this year, is that it’s public. This means that anyone can vote on the proposals.

Besides being fun for the speakers and attendees, it opens up a whole lot of possibilities.

I've been recently asked to check out some CMSes for someone, and try to find a recommendation. What I've been finding hasn't really been encouraging.

Out of the several CMSes I've tried, they've all failed for various reasons. I admit that I might be looking at this from a slightly different perspective than most - that of admining it and coding against it, rather than as a user - but it's still rather disappointing.

TekX was held last week and again it a fabulous conference.

Hephaestus writes "This is a different perspective on the e-books as the killer of the book publishing industry. It's a take from the small author perspective."

On the Ibuildings blog today Ivo Jansch has posted a look at PHP 5.3 from a slightly different perspective - how development with it affects the management.

Leonid Mamchenkov points out an article that lists some of the common pitfalls developers should consider when it comes to working with Open Source projects.

Hubspot’s second State of the Twittersphere report is out, and once again, a cursory glance reveals that a lot of Twitter users aren’t very active.