experiences

IT News Today: "I recently read an article about some “Papercuts” a user experienced with Ubuntu 9.10, and it inspired me to write about my thoughts regarding the latest Ubuntu release, four months after its release."

In a new post Juozas Kaziukenas takes a look at reasons he thinks you should (or shouldn't?) use the Zend Framework for your next application.

Linux Magazine: "The acquisition of Sun by Oracle raises many questions and recalls some past experiences."

The acquisition of Sun by Oracle raises many questions and recalls some past experiences

ImageShack, one of the web’s largest image hosts, was attacked tonight by a movement called “Anti-Sec”.

The result of the attack has been to replace all ImageShack hosted images with a manifesto for the movement (below).

the RepRap is a self-replicating machine (3D printer) created by Adrian Bowyer.

Look at your computer setup and imagine that you hooked up a 3D printer.

Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust, think Lego bricks and you're in the right area.

You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer.

That would be a machine that could copy itself.

A Million Chimpanzees: "Amazingly, this is a "how to program" book that doesn't use JavaScript as the first programming language the newbie experiences.

I'm intrigued. Of course, it's a second edition, so using Ruby isn't exactly new for the new person"

Jeff Jarvis is working on a book called What Would Google Do? Since Google just did something good for me — and for a market that needs help desperately — I thought I'd share my experience with Jeff and the rest of you.

What Google Did for me was radically improve one of the most annoying experiences in the Webbed world: registering a domain name.