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Comment Streamlining 40% of installations (Score 1) 133

by phobonetik on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @06:23AM (#27309549) Attached to: Microsoft Launches Free Web Software Eco-System

SilverStripe, one of the PHP/MySQL applications included in Microsoft's Web Application gallery, gets 40% of its installs on Windows currently. So, to streamline those installs makes a good set of sense, especially as a high number of those would be purely for evaluation purposes, where the focus is to get a copy quickly running with all the correct dependencies sorted. http://silverstripe.org/silverstripe-installation-trends-march2009/

Submission + - New Zealand halts internet copyright law changes (nbr.co.nz) 2

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phobonetik

on Monday March 23, 2009 @12:55AM

phobonetik writes: "The New Zealand Prime Minister announced his Government will throw out the controversial Section 92A of the Copyright Amendment (New Technologies) Act and start again. The proposed law changes contained 'guilty upon accusation, without appeal' clauses and heavy compliance costs to ISPs and businesses. The changes were hours away from being signed but a series of online protests, a petition on Government grounds, as well as public rebuttal by a large ISP and by Google contributed to the Government changing course and respecting the wishes of the IT industry."

Comment Well done Sam (Score 1) 277

by phobonetik on Sunday January 04, 2009 @11:45PM (#26325815) Attached to: Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System

Well done Sam -- you've been working on this for quite some time. In addition, big props for Catalyst IT, Wellington, and open source!

Comment Precise stats from Democratic Convention... (Score 1) 68

by phobonetik on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @05:53AM (#25638065) Attached to: Political Sites Scale Up For Election Traffic

"Will traffic approach record levels? "?

Most likely!

Speaking from experience when we ran demconvention.com over the very busy Democratic National Convention week, traffic went from effectively nothing to massive spikes in hours.

All in all the website got 2.6 billion hits, 3.2 million visitors, 350,000 hours of video watched... in the four day/96 hour period of the convention!

This was about double the website traffic that the Republican convention (gopconvention2008.com) got.

It will be interesting to learn what sort of infrastructure and platforms are used to support the major election coverage news websites. DemConvention.com ran on just a few servers running the LAMP (Redhat) stack with the PHP5-based SilverStripe open source CMS...

Submission + - Google Summer of Code extends to highschoolers (google.com)

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on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @02:11AM

phobonetik writes: "Building on three successful years of engaging University students with over one hundred open source projects, the Google Summer of Code program is being complemented with the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, launched today. Running initially as a pilot involving 10 open source projects, the contest is open to any student enrolled in highschool education. Students choose from a list of several hundred predetermined tasks that improve the open source project, and get paid small sums for their successful completion. At the end of the contest (4th Feb 2008), each of the ten open source projects nominate their best contributor, who wins a grand prize."

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