Archive - Feb 26, 2010

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Missile Defence Logo Controversy, Is It Over Yet?

This week there has been a big buzz on Twitter about the U.S. Missile Defence Agency logo. The logo was designed by TMP Government, an agency dedicated to designing programs exclusively for government and contractors. Here’s the logo:

Microsoft Swats Spam Server Network

Here’s a great story for anyone suffering from inbox overload. 1.5 billion fewer spam emails will be sent today thanks to court action instigated by Microsoft.

SitePoint Podcast #50: jQuery: Novice to Ninja

Episode 50 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week, Kevin Yank (@sentience) is joined by Earle Castledine (@mrspeaker) and Craig Sharkie (@twalve), co-authors of SitePoint’s new book, jQuery: Novice to Ninja.
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Getting Gearman Up And Running On Ubuntu Karmic

Gearman is a lightweight, high-performance solution for farming out processing work from one machine to another. I’m currently looking at using Gearman as a key part of the architecture of a new web API that I’m doing the R&D for.

MySQL-wrapper

Package:
MySQL-wrapper
Summary:
Execute MySQL queries from lists of parameters
Groups:
Databases, PHP 5
Author:
Guvenc Acarkan
Description:
This class can be used to execute MySQL queries from lists of

IMDB

Package:
IMDB
Summary:
Redirect to the page of a movie in IMDB
Groups:
PHP 5, Web services
Author:
Nitesh Apte
Description:
This class can be used to redirect to the page of a movie in IMDB.