Life, IT & the Rest

The Song “Code Monkey” hit the geek charts in 2006, has a nice wikipedia entry and really rocks. The New York Time article Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog has all the details.

Even writer & performer Jonathan Coulton seems to like that one of the many fan videos. Enjoy this Music Video by Kagato@StudioHybrid.org giving pictures to the words & music which express the real reality of some members of our contemporary society :]

Code Monkey MP3 & Code Monkey Games

Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Minix OS) & Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) will do Keynotes at the Free and Open Source Software Conference 2008 http://www.froscon.de 23.- 24.08.2008 in Bonn, Germany.

Talks of the remarkable conference schedule will be streamed by linux-magazin.de.

phpVikinger Derick Rethans will talk on 7 (or more) PHP Myths defused.

Press Announcement

This Linux Netbook looks amazing!

• Models “Ideapads S9″ and “S10″ cost about 320-360 EUR in .de
• From Oktober in shops
• 1GB RAM memory
• 160 GByte-Harddisk or 4 GByte SSD (Solid State Drive)
• Display is 1024 wide
• Express Card Slot
• Linux (Distro to be announced) or WinXP

Full News text in Linux Magazine Germany

This is the product picture you can see in the News http://www.linux-magazin.de/content/view/full/24797

I found a nice text called The Researcher’s Bible by Alan Bundy (not Al Bundy for sure). He wrote this document about reading & writing skills, finding a decent topic, common pitfalls.

This is a shorter one How to write an Informatics Paper.

Alan Bundy seems to know what he is talking about and was Head of the Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 1998-2001. Students like him, they wrote this Liber Amoricum:

Interview with Zend about current “consolidation” and plans by Björn Schotte

Björn Schotte of php-magazine talked with Jürgen Langner, Global Marketing Director at Zend Technologies about recent sacked people in R&D and the current Zend roadmap.
Jürgen Langner said, that I is a goal of Zend to stand on own feet without more money by investors.
Interview Jürgen Langer on it-republik.de