Symfony is an impressive looking PHP5 framework that seems like an attempt to do Ruby on Rails in PHP. They currently have a 21 day tutorial called the symfony advent calendar, showing how they build a site called askeet, with all the bells and whistles.
If this post was any geekier, it would be in hex.
A spammer (or a swarm of spambots from hell) is sending out junk e-mails using a return address in the form fakename@sf-f.org.il to various non-existant users, and I’m getting hit by the auto-generated “undeliverable mail” e-mails that silly mailer programs produce.
Then there are the virus-blocker messages (a file you “sent” was blocked as a virus), and the silliest Message you sent blocked by our bulk email filter
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Is there any way to stop this or mitigate the annoyance? I doubt anyone reads the Lazyweb requests. Maybe there’s a spam FAQ.
It’s remarkable that e-mail survives, considering how broken it is. Maybe because anything else is even more broken.
XML/SWF Charts – for making powerpoint-junkies (i.e, managers) drool.
Wired News: History’s Worst Software Bugs [ via Jeremy Miller]
Let’s just say you do not want to be on the business end of a software-controlled radiation therapy device.
Jesse’s Bookmarklets Site has lots of nifty browser widgets. I liked the Web development stuff, including a Javascript interactive shell that has command history and tab completion. But there might be something actually useful there as well.