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I run a small design shop and have been doing more and more web development, including fairly involved back-end programming of what's now essentially become our own CMS. Up to now I've been doing all the programming myself. Now we are working with a second programmer for the first time. I already use version control (SVN) and an issue-tracking system, and I guess we are both decent at what we do — although self-taught — , but we both lack experience programming in a team context. Is there a useful guide for this? Most of the tutorials I have seen for Subversion are surprisingly organized from a single coder's perspective. Where else should I look?

iPhone Atlas is reporting that the first jailbreak for the iPhone 3G has been released, and includes the popular Cydia community installer for distributing free games and applications. Since Apple's SDK was released, web sites have criticized Apple for the restrictions placed on both what developers could write and what APIs they were allowed to use. Others have noted the SDK's incompatibility with the GPL. The Cydia installer has provided a distribution channel for both open source software and software that would otherwise be impossible to build using the restricted SDK. A few applications are already out, including MobileTerminal and NES.app, a Nintendo game console emulator. In just over a week, open development is finally here for the iPhone 3G!

IBM's Nathan Harrington has an interesting essay on using open-source tools to ensure privacy on Google Calendar: "Today's Web applications provide many benefits for online storage, access, and collaboration. Although some applications offer encryption of user data, most do not. This article provides tools and code needed to add basic encryption support for user data in one of the most popular online calendar applications. Building on the incredible flexibility of Firefox extensions and the Gnu Privacy Guard, this article shows you how to store only encrypted event descriptions in Google's Calendar application, while displaying a plain text version to anyone with the appropriate decryption keys."
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/wa-googlecal/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw97wa-googlecal&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsitelnxw97

Antiglobalism writes "In contrast, a report from Dow Jones VentureSource stated that VC investments dropped 12 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period a year ago, with $6.64 billion put into 602 deals — the lowest quarterly deal count in three years."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-9995138-92.html?tag=nefd.top

Jacob Appelbaum (one of the security researchers who worked on the cold boot attacks to recover encryption keys from memory even after reboot) has announced the release of the complete source code for the utilities at The Last HOPE in New York City. The hope (obligatory pun) is that the release of these tools will help to improve awareness of this attack vector and enable the development of countermeasures and mitigation techniques in both software and hardware.
http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/code/

A beautiful mind writes "It has been long claimed by users that Firefox leaks memory, and on the other hand the developers claimed the number of leaks are minimal. It turns out both groups were right. Stuart Parmenter, one of the authors of the RAMBack extension started investigating and found out that the issue is memory fragmentation. He discovered that while loading about:blank uses 12,589,696 bytes of memory in the test he performed (image), after exercising Firefox with different websites and then clearing the caches with the help of the RAMBack extension the picture is wholly different: "Our heap is now 29,999,872 bytes! 16,118,072 of that is used (up 4,634,208 bytes from before... which caches am I forgetting to clear?). The rest, a whopping 13,881,800 bytes, is in free blocks!""
http://www.pavlov.net/blog/archives/2007/11/memory_fragment.html

A recently identified genetic marker for prostate cancer is linked to a highly aggressive form of the disease, according to new research. These findings ultimately will aid the development of a simple blood test to predict who is susceptible to this aggressive cancer. Knowing which patients carry this genetic marker also will guide doctors in how they treat the cancer. The study showed a strong hereditary component to this aggressive cancer.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070520130043.htm

A survey of sleep-deprived teens finds they think that a later start time for school and tests given later in the school day would result in better grades. The survey of 280 high school students confirmed what most parents with a teenager know: they are not getting enough sleep.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070520130046.htm

An anonymous reader writes "Boingboing.net has posted an article with details and several links to a marvelous video explaining copyright by using snippets from Disney videos. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/19/fairy_use_tal e_amazi.html"

At the DIY bacchanalia, a reporter finds all his professional and social worlds colliding. In a good way.
Photos: Tech makes magic at Maker Faire
http://news.com.com/All+my+contexts+are+belong+to+Maker+Faire/2100-1008_3-6185147.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news

Callum writes "Its a Sunday and exams are coming up, its the perfect time to cut and stick some pokemon cards into an altoids tin, no?
My old DS Games holder reached it limit so I made my own, it holds 10 games, a stylus, and has room for a cloth.
http://callum.dlpwd.co.uk/?p=137"

benesch writes "An ageing UK star lineup tries to charm parliament into exending copyright protection of their songs: "Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Cliff Richard are among the artists who will see the current 50-year limit on their early sound recordings expire soon. The House of Commons culture committee said people had a "moral right" to keep control of their creations while alive. The copyright term for sound recordings should be extended to at least 70 years, the committee recommended. That would allow ageing performers to continue to benefit from their early recordings throughout their lifetimes.""

quiberon2 writes "Police chief's 'Orwellian' fears on BBC News is my local police force bemoaning the excessive provision of surveillance cameras.

If even the police don't want the privacy invasion, should we roll it back ?

And how ?"

Corvus Elrod writes "PJ's Attic has published a white paper titled Games and Storytelling. The white paper describes a storytelling model which our studio developed as a foundation for our game design. While the model was designed to be inclusive of video games and new media, it also can be used to describe traditional storytelling media such as folkloric oral traditions, music, literature and film. The model's development was influenced by the writing of Umberto Eco and Marshal McLuhan, improvisational theater techniques, game design principles and over twenty years experience in designing participatory storytelling experiences. The paper is available as a free download at PJ's Attic. Direct Download: Link PJ's Attic Publications Page: Link"

CandyMan writes "Recently I have been forced to go back to a certain open source webmail (name withheld to protect the touchy), and I can't say I would recommend it to anyone. For emergencies maybe, but not for daily use. Lightning-quick full-text indexing and Javascript UI tricks in Gmail and Yahoo! mail have spoilt me forever, and I guess that most webmail users out there would feel the same. Old-style html-only webmail applications just don't cut it anymore. Which is your favourite webmail client? Is it a bare-bones html-only application, or does it have a fancier interface?"