From “The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko“:
Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career – taking on Google. In search.
Taking on Google is a statement that is now so cliché, but this is one guy (and team) who might actually have a shot at it.
From “IPv6: coming to a root server near you“:
Just before year’s end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that “on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested it.” […] That means that as of February 4, 2008, it will (theoretically) be possible for two IPv6 hosts to communicate across the IPv6 Internet without having to rely on any IPv4 infrastructure. It’s been a long journey to get to this point.
W00t! No pun intended. Well, maybe a little. ;-)
Via Slashdot.
From “The War Against Live Blogging“:
The [new NCAA authored] policy provides for limited blogging by credentialed bloggers only. I.e., American football bloggers get a maximum of 3 posts per quarter, and 1 at halftime. For baseball, it’s once per inning, for golf — 10 per day. Bloggers are also required to submit their coverage to the NCAA’s Blog Central directory and to include the NCAA logo and link on their posts.
I’ll be honest, I won’t be affected by this directly since I’m not into sports blogging, but… wow! They so remind me of the hilarious late 90’s EULAs that tried to forbid anyone from linking to web sites without the owner’s prior consent. Fu-nay.
From “Damien Katz: New Gig“:
Great news! I’ve accepted a permanent, full-time job with IBM. My primary duties are (drumroll….) CouchDB! So all the stuff I’ve been doing up until now for free I’ll be doing full time and be getting paid for it! Yee Haw!
That is fantastic news for both Damien and the CouchDB project. Shaweet!
Zend Developer Zone has a nice tutorial on how to extend Zend_Controller_Action with function parameters.
Additionally, the presented code features a nice example of the utility of PHP5’s Reflection API.
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