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Matt: Backing BuddyPress
via WordPress Planet by Matt on March 04, 2008
Some of you may remember when I wrote about Chickspeak, a WordPress MU-based social network. Andy Peatling, the fellow behind it, later decided to recreate the work he had done as an Open Source effort he called BuddyPress. And it was good.Today I’m happy to announce that Andy has joined Automattic full-time and we’ll be taking the BuddyPress project under our wing. We will grow it and...
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Enso is now free
via Planet Compiz Fusion by Guillaume Seguin on March 06, 2008
It’s now official, Enso, a really awesome tool that integrates smoothly into your desktop and enables you to perform several otherwise boring actions by just using your keyboard in a very simple way (check Humanized website for a better description), has just been open sourced under a BSD-like license. It’s written in Python and uses Cairo for the rendering, and the end result is really...
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Easy testing of CGI scripts
via Recipes from the Python Cookbook by (author unknown) on March 06, 2008
Invoking 'runcgi.py target.cgi' starts a built-in web server, configures the server to run target.cgi as a CGI program, then launches the system's default web browser to get the URL of the target script. The CGI script need not be in Python. The terminal that launched runcgi.py will show the server's log, which reports requests, responses, and errors.
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AT&T vs. PG&E on call monitoring
via root labs rdist by Nate Lawson on March 06, 2008
I’m moving so won’t be posting for a little while. I thought my experience with two of my utilities was quite telling.AT&T recording: “Your call may be monitored or recorded. Tell your rep if you don’t want this.”Me: “Hi, I don’t want to be monitored or recorded.”AT&T: “Sorry, we can’t disable that on a per-call basis. All calls are automatically recorded. I can take...
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Top Commentators for a Blogger Blog
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 04, 2008
While Blogger doesn't encourage comments and communities, it's still interesting to see who comments on your blog more frequently. This information can be obtained from Blogger's comment feeds, but you need a tool for processing feeds.Yahoo Pipes is probably the best way to combine, sort, filter and modify feeds. Inspired by this Yahoo Pipe, I created a pipe that shows the top 50...
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Google's Engineering Philosophy
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 02, 2008
A slide from a presentation at last year's Google Engineering Open House listed 12 principles that guide programming at Google:1. All developers work out of a ~single source depot; shared infrastructure!2. A developer can fix bugs anywhere in the source tree.3. Building a product takes 3 commands ("get, config, make")4. Uniform coding style guidelines across company5. Code reviews mandatory...
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The Extreme, Web-based Google Hacking Tool
via GNUCITIZEN by pdp on March 04, 2008
I am happy to inform you that I’ve been doing some work on our Google Hacking Database Tool lately. The tool is now pretty stable and it has a better looking, and a lot more intuitive interface. You can enjoy the tool right now from here, as it is entirely web-based.The GNUCITIZEN’s GHDB project was started back in May 2007. The initial version wasn’t that nice and it sulfured from numerous...
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Summer's right around the corner
via Google Code Blog by Leslie Hawthorn on March 04, 2008
By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source TeamIt may only be March, but the heat is on — Google Summer of Code is back for 2008! Last year, nearly 900 students teamed up with over 2,000 mentors to write millions of lines of code. We're looking forward to another year of introducing university students to open source development and helping our colleagues in the open source world find new contributors...
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Hard core porn invasion on Google Groups
via Sunbelt Blog by Sunbelt Software Blog on March 02, 2008
We’ve just started seeing a hard-core porn invasion on Google Groups. So far, we have identified approximately 270 Google Groups pages with this porn. List here (pdf).images below, offensive content has been obfuscated. These pages push other porn pages for profit. While not all of the redirects go to malware sites, we did observe some redirects to a site which ultimately pushes a fake...
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