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The original book has been online over two years, and in print as PHP in a Nutshell, but now all the content is available on this site as a wiki.

The contents of the wiki are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence (read it here), with one addition: by submitting content to this wiki you grant the author, Paul Hudson, the right to relicense your work under the GNU GPL 2.0 or later if he so chooses.

These are some really useful tips from Tom Johnson’s I’d rather be writing. I think the post, entitled “Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog” covers most of what should be said about the best practices of blogging.
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Google launched today a hosted software package of productivity tools that places it closer into competition with Microsoft’s Live products…


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FileHippo provide you with the simplest method of downloading the newest versions of the best software - without the usual excessive popups or spyware and without the low quality software.
They do not take software submissions from publishers. The site is user focused, and they analyze the software market daily for popular software to add.

Features

• Only the best software, we focus on quality not quantity.
• Very fast servers with 100Mb connections, to make your downloads as fast as possible.
• We keep the old versions of programs, so if you update and don’t like the new version, you can always return to the old one.
• All software is 100% spyware and virus free.
• Filtering feature to allow you to only show Freeware and/or Non-beta software.
• Full support for resuming downloads and download managers.
• Change log and technical details for downloads.
• RSS feeds for all updates, categories and for individual programs.

If you ever wanted to make your opinion count regarding ubuntu artwork, now is the time.
I just got this in the ubuntu-art mailing list:

For those who are interested, there are a couple of new polls set up to
get a grasp on our swelling membership numbers.

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