Feel like making a diference? Idealist.org

Published by pris54 (Admin) |Idealist.org| 04 Sep, 2009

Are you great at what you do? Would you consider donating some of your time and skills to help NGOs and NPOs? Then the site to visit is idealist.org.

idealist.org's Vision

We would like to live in a world where:

* All people can lead free and dignified lives.
* Every person who wants to help another has the ability to do so.
* No opportunities for action or collaboration are missed or wasted.

idealist.org's Mission

Action Without Borders connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.

AWB is independent of any government, political ideology, or religious creed. Our work is guided by the common desire of our members and supporters to find practical solutions to social and environmental problems, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect.

Follow the link below for more information.

PHP Worst Practices

Published by pris54 (Admin) |phpdev.blog | 22 Aug, 2009

We've all seen design patterns and heard about best practices in PHP development, but there's a darker, more sinister side to the "practices" examples that is usually just the stuff of folklore and legend. Many a PHP developer brushes off their existence with a quick "oh, I'd never do that" or "I've seen other people's code like that..."

What am I talking about? Why, only the very things that threaten to tear apart the language and the community as a whole! That's right - PHP Worst Practices - and they'll sneak into your development as quick as you can bat an eye. I'm here as a guide through some of these. The way I see it, if I can share as many as I can, you can see them coming a mile away and code around them.

The Hacker Ethic

Published by pris54 (Admin) |Wikipedia| 08 Aug, 2009

Don't. You read "hacker" and your mind quickly links this term to "crime", what a shame. In its origins the term hacker referred to something very different to online crime, it was about restoring balance and building a better World.

In "The Hacker Ethic" Himanen, a Finnish philosopher, picks-up the concept, remind us its true, inspiring meaning and then expands it and presents it as a perfectly valid option to our current status-quo.

More in Wikipedia:

In The Hacker Ethic, Himanen is trying to understand the core of informationalism, the post-industrialist paradigm, extending the ideas of Manuel Castells' Information Age. As an alternative to the industrial-capitalist protestant work ethic he proposes a hacker ethic as something like a cyber communitarianism. The structure of the information society is a web, which in contemporary business world manifests itself, for instance, in dynamic outsourcing and even cooperation with one's competitors. The "knots" of such a web get activated according to the needs and opportunities.

Find Himanen's book in Amazon