From Jeff Chandler’s “Calais Offers WordPress Plugin Bounty“:
Calais which is a metadata generation web service that is powered by Reuters is offering up a $5,000.00 bounty to anyone who can develop a plugin that meets the following criteria: tag auto suggestion, semantic cloud, GUID incorporation.
I can’t go for this one, having other immediate priorities and commitments, but it sounds like a neat and challenging project to tackle.
From “WordPress MU 1.3.2 | Holy Shmoly!“:
WordPress MU 1.3.2 was tagged earlier today. This is a major security update that brings together the fixes in WordPress 2.3.2 and a number of critical WordPress MU specific security problems.
From “php.pdo: PDO 2: Request for Comments“:
It became apparent over the past year or so that PDO has been a good and valuable addition to PHP. Like JDBC in the Java world, PDO offers similar advantages, such as consistent data access APIs and better consistency across the various drivers. It has also become clear that there is still room for improvement around the functionality, consistency and broader vendor support for PDO.
I love PDO. My only real pet peeve with it is that it wasn’t right in PHP 1.0.
I’m looking forward to see some of the proposed improvements come to life.
From Matt Tucker’s “XMPP (a.k.a. Jabber) is the future for cloud services“:
There’s a new firestorm brewing in web services architectures. Cloud services are being talked up as a fundamental shift in web architecture that promises to move us from interconnected silos to a collaborative network of services whose sum is greater than its parts. The problem is that the protocols powering current cloud services; SOAP and a few other assorted HTTP-based protocols are all one way information exchanges. Therefore cloud services aren’t real-time, won’t scale, and often can’t clear the firewall. So, it’s time we blow up those barriers and come to Jesus about the protocol that will fuel the SaaS models of tomorrow–that solution is XMPP (also called Jabber) . Never heard of it? In just a couple of years Google, Apple, AOL, IBM, Livejournal and Jive have all jumped on board.
An interesting read on an increasingly attractive architecture.
From “The “Work From Home” Generation – ReadWriteWeb“:
What are the pros and cons of working from home? In this post we take a close look, as well as discuss what lies ahead for this new, rapidly growing generation.
Always interesting to read an article that explores both sides of the telecommuting equation.
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