Marking the three year anniversary of the European Parliaments no to software patents the 24th of September is being made “Stop Software Patents World Day”.

On “Ask Slashdot” the readers recently got to answer which their favourite programming reference sites where for different languages. While most of the gems that where posted are quite well known I thought I’d make a quick summery of all the valuable links posted there.
Most languages have recieved at least one link but it’s interesting [...]

I must start off with admiting that my PHP skills are very limited, however being a very experienced Perl hacker this is very similar to me.
I needed a script that checked for a normal HTTP response from another server, a status script to see if the other server(s) where behaving as they should.
The resources on-line [...]

Not exactly software but technical at least so I just have to link it.

So if we do manage to make a black hole and suck us in this is the last remnant of our civilization. It’s a valid contribution.

More and more I’ve come across situations where I want to use AJAX to download a XML file to use in the interface but know beforhand that the file will take a long time to load. With asyncroneous download of XML files by JavaScript, which is kind of what the buzz word AJAX is all [...]

Are software patents protecting the inventors and is something needed to protect intelectual property?
Read this: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-218626.html
If it designed to be used to protect intelectual property then it is now abused by large companies for making absurd claims, in this case Microsoft.
Makes me want to patent the “O”-button… peple cant write blgs withut it.