aorist - Slashdot User

SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking 147

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 08, 2010 @01:12PM from the power-to-the-people dept.

Recently there was much gnashing of teeth as SourceForge (which shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) started programmatically blocking users in certain countries to comply with US export restrictions. Thankfully they didn't let it end there and have found a way to put the power back in the hands of the users. "Beginning now, every project admin can click on Develop -> Project Admin -> Project Settings to find a new section called Export Control. By default, we've ticked the more restrictive setting. If you conclude that your project is *not* subject to export regulations, or any other related prohibitions, you may now tick the other check mark and click Update. After that, all users will be able to download your project files as they did before last month's change."

Comment remember how to love the computer (Score 1) 601

by aorist on Friday June 26, 2009 @11:15PM (#28491029) Attached to: How To Get Out of Developer's Block?

I'm reading quite a few posts that advise "stepping away" from the computer in some way. Others that read something like "work on that 'other' project". Well, both are good, good advice, but - I've found that what works best for me is to play around with some completely arbitrary code. That is, I don't work on another "project", I just write some code to see what the code can do - I'm often amazed at how quickly this technique seems to galvanize my mind and put me in the mood to work on what I actually need to work on. Best of luck comrade.

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