“One of the great things about working at Google is that we get to take advantage of an enormous amount of computing power to do some really cool things. One idea we tried out was to let webmasters know about their potentially hackable websites. The initial effort was successful enough that we thought we would take it one step further by expanding our efforts to cover other types of web applications—for example, more content management systems (CMSs), forum/bulletin-board applications, stat-trackers, and so on.”

via googlewebmastercentral

“The Zend Framework 1.9 release added a new feature – Zend_Rest_Controller. Zend_Rest_Controller and Zend_Rest_Route classes go hand in hand. In the previous versions of the Zend Framework, we have had the Zend_Rest_Server component. We still have. Since Zend_Rest_Server provides an RPC like component violating the REST architectural constraint, it is likely to be deprecated in the future versions of the Zend Framework.”

By Sudheer via techchorus.net

“The Internet has been incredibly empowering to creators, and just as destructive to middle men. In the 20th century, every musician needed a record label to get his or her music heard. Every author needed a publishing house to be read. Every journalist needed a newspaper. Anyone who wanted to send a message needed the post office. In the Internet age, the tail no longer wags the dog, and those middle men have become a luxury, not a necessity.  Meanwhile, the software industry is moving in the opposite direction.” (keep reading)

by Joe Hewitt via joehewitt.com

Cornerstone vs Versions

I dont know how long Cornerstone has been around (actually, according to their blog it looks like the first version came out around May 2008), but i only learned about them last week (an ad in Tweetie), and immediately downloaded it.  I spend all day every day working with code stored in different Subversion repositories.  Up until now, I have been using Versions as my Subversion app of choice, and its been great.  There are a few annoying issues with Versions, and i’ve been surprised at how long they take between releases, but it was the first Subversion app for the Mac that was actually worth using.

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