Web programming is intense. It seems that there is a new language and framework born every day. It’s a good thing; I mean new technologies, new ways to get things done with new flashy and shiny additions. However with every switcher to these new technologies there is a departed technology or product. This is wherein the problem lies that this article is all about. For some reason, when someone decides to change their sweaty, greased up and saturated PHP t-shirt for a Ruby on Rails jersey or a Django hoodie. …

A question was raised in an interview on one of my favourite radio stations, Triple J, more specifically the John Safran and Father Bob show. They usually talk about religious topics, not that I have a single religious thought in my mind, (as in, you could call me an atheist, but that wouldn’t even phase me, so don’t waste your time) but sometimes they talk about current topics out in society. This time however they were discussing with a guest about how the content on the internet is really only out there …

We have another TechCrunch fail on our hands, one for the fail blog perhaps. Their wide claims have had me slamming my head against the desk for months now. A lot of their “articles”, or fallacies, tend to be aimed to the web 2.0 fools that are frothing at the mouth for the next web trend so they can pop their collars to their friends at the next local twitter meet up at their local Starbucks. You often will see posts titled like Linux to kill Microsoft, Bill Gates time is …

I am a big music fan. I would like to say i listen to anything and everything, but for all that know me, this isn’t true. I love my electronic music, from Drum & Bass to Schranz and Hardtechno. If it has energy and drive, then I’m all for it. With the internet as it is, you can pretty much get access to all sorts of music from all across the world, some free and others “free”. Finding new music however would always hurt my bandwidth quota, yeh, i have …

True, you’re right. I will probably be bumped down the Google gold path of a pagerank for this one. But let’s hope over 9000 people read this before i go down to #2 on this one. What do we have here, a mathematician turned awesome? I think so. What does Google do awesomely? Provide us with excellent search results. What does Wolfram Alpha look like its setting out to do? Be awesomer! From first glance at the Alpha product and can be seen that we have a new search engine …