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Django 1.4 final released
Posted by James Bennett on March 23, 2012
Your Facebook password should be none of your boss' business
Today, the Associated Press reports that some employers are asking applicants for their Facebook usernames and passwords. According to the article:
All of Iceland's public administrations moving towards open source
All public administrations in Iceland are increasing their use of free and open source software. The country's government recently launched a one year migration project for all of its public...
Run your own CTF: Stripe publishes VM images
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
Learn why a message ended up in your spam folder
Posted by Ela Czajka, Software Engineer Many of our users say the accuracy of our spam filter is one of the key reasons they love Gmail. ...
Cybersecurity Bill Broad Enough to Use Against WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay
Congress is doing it again: they’re proposing overbroad regulations that could have dire consequences for our Internet ecology. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, allows companies or the government[fn]...
Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program
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Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix
This introduction to text manipulation on UNIX platforms provides an overview of some common commands widely available and installed standard on most UNIX-based releases. Many times these standard utilities are ignored in favor of more modern text-processors such as Perl, Python, or Ruby, which are not always…
The curious case of our iOS app (Prey)
Resources and best practices for IT ops, cybersecurity, mobility, privacy, and product updates.
Audacity 2.0 Released
Download Audacity for free. A free multi-track audio editor and recorder. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public…
Shutting down a product? Open source it.
One month ago, we informed Copycopter customers that we would be shutting the...
Single Page Web Apps with Backbone.js
Expert guides on business text messaging, SMS marketing strategies, compliance updates, and industry best practices. Stay updated with SendHub's blog.
Arch Linux turns 10
If you follow Arch Planet , you may have already heard the news that we are celebrating a decade of existence, with the release of 0.1 Homer on March 11, 2002. If you haven't already, grab some birthday cake and head over to Arch Planet to read several developers chronologies and wonderful words of praise for Arch…
Django's future, and Python 3
Posted by James Bennett on March 13, 2012
Our 3d printer is better than yours
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PEP 394 – The “python” Command on Unix-Like Systems
This PEP outlines the behavior of Python scripts when the python command is invoked. Depending on a distribution or system configuration, python may or may not be installed. If python is installed its target interpreter may refer to python2 or python3. ...
Python 2.8 Un-release Schedule
This document describes the un-development and un-release schedule for Python 2.8.