Google’s Summer of Code Headed Down Under
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITStony Stevenson alerts us to news that Google is hinting at the possibility of an Australian version of the Summer of Code program. We’ve discussed the results of the Summer of Code program in the past. Quoting iTnews: “The global program had attracted students from 90 countries around the world, including Australia, said Hawthorn. But as the timing clashed with winter term time in the southern hemisphere, it’s been tough for local students to participate. Stopping short of confirming the program, Hawthorn said Google is looking into finding the human resources - as opposed to the financial resources - to make it happen.”
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Sitemap Creator For Google, Yahoo And MSN
It can traverse a given server directory where the files of a site are located. The list of files that match given name extensions is extracted. The class can generate site maps in XML or plain text formats from the list of site files.
XML Class
It can parse a XML document file using the DOM Document class and extracts all the nodes with a given name. Then the class can retrieve the values of the elements with a given name that are inside the previously retrieved nodes.
Flex 3, AIR, BlazeDS: Less Than One Moon
Now. Flex 3 final Beta days are almost over and it brings you lots of goodies. If you are still thinking of using AJAX or JSF for your data intensive business application, just stop it, will you! Just take care of your business with Flex 3, AIR, and BlazeDS.
Octopussy Numbers In PHP
I went crazy for half an hour until i realised the problem. Here's a little gotcha you can try: echo 09," => (09)
"; echo 9," => (9)
"; If you expect the above code to produce the same values, you are sadly mistaken.
Details Of Cyber Storm War Games Released
'Cyber Storm' war games are familiar with the Kobayashi Maru, because some of them tried to cheat by hacking the games themselves. They also prepare for some very interesting scenarios. Among other things, the organizers are worried about having too many people on the 'No Fly' list show up at an airport, finding 'mystery liquids' in the subway, and having bloggers reveal the classified location of railcars with hazardous materials.
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Keynote Systems To Report The Online Action Play By Play
Keynote Competitive Research, the industry analysis group of Keynote Systems, announced it would make itself readily available to media immediately following Super Bowl XLII 2008 for reporting on the technical quality (responsiveness and reliability) of four leading mobile sports Web sites, three popular sites streaming Super Bowl commercials and 35 of the Super Bowl advertiser's Web sites.
SVN's Svn:externals To GIT's Submodule
mcnazar writes "Do you manage your Rails Plugins via svn:externals? Thinking of switching to Git but are concerned that Git lacks a direct equivalent of svn:externals? In this article I present a work-around or even IMHO a better solution than SVN's svn:externals."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Zend Developer Zone: PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 34: Streams Abstraction
Grab it in one of the usual three ways listen on the page, download the mp3 or subscribe to feed for the show. Also, be sure to check out some of the other episodes listed at the bottom of the post for lots of other great content.
Physicist Calculates Trajectory Of Tiger At SF Zoo
KentuckyFC writes "Is it really possible for a 350-pound tiger to leap a 12.5-foot barrier from 33 feet away? (Said another way: a 159-kg tiger, a 3.8 m barrier, and 10 m away.) A physicist at Northeastern University has done the math, a straightforward problem in ballistics, and the answer turns out to be yes (abstract on the physics arXiv).