Comment Re:Would be Great PR. (Score 1) 398
If they do end up naming it after him, Colbert should do a 'better know a module' segment over the next year or so.
Comment Keep that resume updated (Score 1) 958
As yet another IT person who has been in this situation, I can say that BSA was pretty much worthless in my experience. When I was fired (mainly because of the noise I was making about unlicensed software) I tried to hand the company over to BSA on a silver platter and they were worthless. They just seemed totally incompentent and knew less about software licensing than the company I was working for. Of course that was a long time ago so I'm sure things are better these days.
The bigger issue is the big suprise during an audit when the company is going public or trying to be sold. One place I worked ended up paying about $50,000 for software licensing when they tried to go public. And they were not even trying to pirate on purpose.
If management really doesn't care about becoming legit, it's time to start looking for a new job. In my case, I ended up getting fired but I really should have started looking for a new job the day that they asked me to install the first unlicensed software. If that's the way they do business, they will take liberties with employees the same way they take liberties with software.
Comment Don't they have plows where you live? (Score 1) 429
I live over 10000' in a ski town and have never been snowed in. They actually plow the roads around here.
Learning Drupal 6 Module Development 39
Michael J. Ross writes "Of all the content management systems (CMSs) that a Web developer could use for creating a new site, the best ones allow the developer to extend the chosen CMS's capabilities, by adding new functionality, in the form of third-party modules. This is one of many reasons why Drupal is growing in popularity: Developers can choose from hundreds of Drupal modules but not all functionality that a developer might want has been captured in a module, and many of the modules are unfinished or otherwise limited in capabilities. Fortunately, PHP programmers can create their own modules, and one way to get up to speed is Learning Drupal 6 Module Development, authored by Matt Butcher."
CERN, the Big Bang and Impact On the IT Industry 169
whencanistop writes "ComputerWeekly have put together a nice short guide (with lots of links) of what is going on at CERN. They've got a nice slant though on what this big bang experiment is going to mean for the IT Industry. Interesting slant on the world's largest grid and the database clustering technology that they are using. They have also picked up on the amusing rap video by CERN's scientists that has been wandering around YouTube."
