99 bottles of beer in LOLCode

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Via Labnotes, we get to 99 bottles of beer in LOLCode. Awesome.

Catching up

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As I can't waste my free time on my Xbox for the foreseeable future, I might as well catch up on some stuff I should've written about recently... Goodbye Gottabet, hello bragster A couple of weeks ago, we relaunched Gottabet as bragster. The result of five weeks' development (pretty quick for re-branding a whole website!), the ...

Oh noes!

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My Xbox 360 has the Terminal Three Red Flashing Lights of Doom. I now get to wait at least three weeks for it to be repaired under warranty, potentially five. Fun :(

PHP better than Ruby (on Rails)?

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Not quite but Derek Sivers, an early proponent of switching to Rails for large-scale websites, has written a post on his O'Reilly blog about why he just gave up on 2 years' work in Rails on his CD Baby project to switch back to PHP. It's a very sensible article looking at the fact that Rails ...

OAuth 1st draft released

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I'm a bit late on this, but the first draft of the OAuth spec has been published. OAuth is (very roughly) an OpenID equivalent for applications - it lets a 'consumer' application (the standard example seems to be a printing service) contact a service provider (continuing the example, say flickr) to request information from one of ...