Technology predictions for 2008
As 2007 comes to a close, I thought it would be interesting to reveal some of my predictions of what will and won’t happen in the technology sector over the…
Support for PHP 4 to be dropped
There is an announcement on the official PHP website about PHP 4 reaching end of life at the end of this year, with no more development beyond the 31st December…
Slackware 12.0 is out
The creaking Linux distribution known as Slackware has clocked over another major version number to make it to 12.0. Amazingly, Slackware is still largely maintained by one individual, Patrick Volkerding,…
WordPress 2.0 is released
I’ve been waiting for several days to see if this story is actually true or not, but according to the WordPress IRC channel (#wordpress on irc.freenode.net) and several of the…
If Only I’d Thought of this First
I’m sure a lot of people by now have heard of The Million Dollar home page. For those of you who haven’t, it’s a simple idea from a university student,…
Gmail now Google Mail in the UK
Due to a dispute with London-based Independent International Investment Research, who claim to have been using the Gmail name before Google launched their service on April 1st, 2004, the Google…