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In Rubyists Already Use Monadic Patterns, Dave Fayram made a passing reference to using ||= to set a variable's value if its value were 'Nothing' (false or nil in Ruby).

As of a few days ago, and following Chris' post, I am now the proud owner of an open source project. These things don't build themselves and whenever I look at the project as it stands, I'm blown away by what Chris has built over these years, and I can only thank him for that (he's not vanishing, just stepping away from the big-picture tasks).

As bandwidth and storage capacity have increased, so have the capabilities of file-hosting services.

Perhaps inevitably, not only are they used for the storage personal files, but increasingly for the distribution of movies, music, games and software.

Although the MPAA and RIAA have named two of the market leaders – RapidShare and MegaUpload – as ‘rogue’, to date both sites have avoided becoming a target for litigation from the pair.

The same cannot be said about Hotfile.

If you haven't gotten a chance to participate in one of the Zend Framework Bug Hunt Days, you can get up and running pretty easily with this guide from Padraic Brady that introduces you to the concept and includes a few helpful hints to keep in mind when you participate.

Richard Thomas has added two more quick posts in his "Solar Shorts" series spotlighting the Solar framework:

Stefan Koopmanschap has posted a reminder for all of those interested in the next Symfony BugHuntDay - the next one is just around the corner on November 14th.

The Zend Developer Zone has announced the start of October's Bug Hunt Day for the Zend Framework:

Hacking: "It was quite a while since i did any sed, i rediscovered that joy when someone at #sed irc channel asked how to turn “/abc/def/filename” in “A:\abc\def\filename”."