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Stop Spam! Read Books!
Recaptcha is a fantastic twist on CAPTCHA, a trick often used to prevent malicious scripts from filling out online forms. Recaptcha asks you for two words; one known by the system, and used to check your biological nature, and the other, unknown, used to digitize a book one word at a time (learn more).
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Sun acquires MySQL
In Jonathan Schwartz's recent blog post he talks about why Sun purchased MySQL and what it means for them and the internet industry at large. Sun paid $1,000,000,000 USD for MySQL which had $50,000,000 USD in revenue last year.
What does Sun get out of this?
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O'Reilly Ruby Blog sees the light
O'Reilly blogger Derek Sivers yesterday wrote an opinion post, 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails, and in doing so, reiterated the architectural decisions we made in SilverStripe over a year ago.
Ruby on Rails has been hyped as a programming language for a few years, and while this is laudable for creating a critical mass of programs, programmers, tools, and book sales, I'm glad to see that the environment has matured such that people are:
1 Comments Tags: php, ruby on rails, oreilly, tech news
CSS is 10 Years Old
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has just had its 10 year anniversary, and celebrated the occasion by creating a site to mark its involvement in the web development world. CSS itself hasn’t been relatively popular until more recent years. w3.org even upgraded the CSS validator
The immersion of the language in web development has greatly improved the way we make websites and allows us to be freer by separating content, layout and styling markup but was greatly resisted due to browser compliance problems.
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How do humans win?
Webstock is here! We've been in heads-down mode for a while, working on sites for councils, Air New Zealand, and American clients too. So now is the time to celebrate the local scene and be proud of Webstock!
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