Cruciforum: crucially simple
Stuart Langridge's crucially simple PHP forum software. Featuring, no accounts/registrations, spam protection and gravatars. The software has been built with Joel Spolsky's thoughts on forum design in mind — just like Joel's software discussion forum, it is deceptively simple.
Building Communities with Software
Joel Spolsky discusses the ideas behind his deceptively simple discussion forums. An interesting and informative read.
The Joel on Software Discussion Group
Joel Spolsky's deceptively simple discussion forum.
my little forum
A nice looking PHP and MySQL forum application with threaded discussions. If you are interested in simple software, this might be worth a look.
HOWTO: Make A Metapackage
Straightforward instructions for creating Debian/Ubuntu metapackages.
Software Management Command Line Comparison - openSUSE
A list of functions used in the major command line software management utilities. Commands are grouped by management task, e.g. package management or sources management. The analysis describes the function in the first column, lists the corresponding commands of all tools except zypper in the second column and finally the zypper command in the last column.
Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars
Lord Vader steals the show…
Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000
A video documenting the first open-source release of Netscape's browser and the foundation of the Mozilla project.
Seth's Email Checklist
"Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure".
InterfaceLIFT Wallpapers
A nice collection of free, high-resolution wallpapers for your desktop.
RFC 1855 (rfc1855) - Netiquette Guidelines
Some old netiquette guidelines from 1995. Do people still read and take heed of such things?
Web Is A Lot Less About Programming…
…it is about information and making the information available to as many as possible.
The no-framework PHP MVC framework - Rasmus' Toys Page
"What I was hoping to get across here is a simple example of how you can use PHP as-is, without additional complex external layers, to apply an MVC approach with clean and simple views and still have all the goodness of fancy Web 2.0 features. If you think I am out to personally offend you and your favourite framework, then you have the wrong idea."
Internet Fuckwad Theory
Unreal Tournament 2004 lends incontrovertible proof to John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
Last we checked, PHP IS a framework
A good post regarding PHP and frameworks. Why use a framework when PHP IS a framework?
How to write like a wanker
Popular sites such as Slashdot and Digg are brimming with horrific grammar, atrocious spelling, gratuitous abbreviation and childish, arrogant attitude. To be "in" on the net, you must write like a wanker.
ffmpeg Conversion
A handy list of ffmpeg command line arguements used for video conversion. Provided by Alan Pope of the Ubuntu Screencast Team.
Master of the Internet
You too can be a Master of the Internet, order today!
Buntu Family Theater
Linux Journal's Shawn Powers tells the tale of Ubuntu and its family of distributions. Good stuff.
How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People
An interesting Google TechTalk, luckily I have not met too many poisonous people; still, worth a look.
