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Stop Spam! Read Books!

Recaptcha is a fantastic twist on CAPTCHA, a trick often used to prevent malicious scripts from filling out online forms. Recaptcha asks you for two words; one known by the system, and used to check your biological nature, and the other, unknown, used to digitize a book one word at...

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Sun acquires MySQL

In Jonathan Schwartz's recent blog post he talks about why Sun purchased MySQL and what it means for them and the internet industry at large. Sun paid $1,000,000,000 USD for MySQL which had $50,000,000 USD in revenue last year.

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O'Reilly Ruby Blog sees the light

O'Reilly blogger Derek Sivers yesterday wrote an opinion post, 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails, and in doing so, reiterated the architectural decisions we made in SilverStripe over a year ago.

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CSS is 10 Years Old

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has just had its 10 year anniversary, and celebrated the occasion by creating a site to mark its involvement in the web development world. CSS itself hasn’t been relatively popular until more recent years. w3.org even upgraded the CSS validator  

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