MIH SWAT

By a show of hands, how many people here have ever heard of SPL? How many have used it? Chances are most of you did not raise your hands, and some might even have a confused look on their faces. Not many know what SPL is, so let’s explore.

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Rafael Dohms, one of SWAT’s PHP experts and a leading proponent of PHP in Latin America attended the 2009 php|tek conference in Chicago. This conference is hosted by MTACon, the company behind php|architect magazine, one of the most influent PHP publications in the world. Rafael tells the story of the conference in this post.

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We have just posted our experimental Social Graph application on Facebook. It offers Facebook users additional insight into their personal social networks, allowing them to identify different social clusters they belong to. In the work and life balancing game, the person with the biggest number of clusters, and not the person with the biggest number of friends, wins.

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BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. I attended Barcamp Nigeria on behalf of SWAT.

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The ’sphere is abuzz with Adobe AIR clients that support twitter and facebook at the moment. So we have two twitter clients that have recently added Facebook Status Updates.

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I am currently in Tokyo, Japan attending an internet conference organised by our group. We hold these every year, usually in a technologically advanced nation. We bring in executives and sector specialists from around the group to meet, discuss technologies, trends and strategies. All very exciting and one of the great advantages of working for the Naspers Group!

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SWAT had the great pleasure of hosting the group of students from the Stellenbosch Media Lab at our offices today.

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Well, you’ll answer yes (of course) and if you live in South Africa that’s a justifiable response. But here the reason for the sky-high prices, and third-world bandwidth is Telkom. And ICASA, the toothless regulator.

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Even though it was published in 2005, the issues that “Essential PHP Security” addresses is still very relevant today. Written by Chris Shiflett, the book goes through various security aspects associated with a PHP application, and for that reason its content can be considered up to date and applicable to various day-to- day situations faced by developers.

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The Register recently published an article in which Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical, praises the beta of Microsoft’s new flagship operating system Windows 7. I’ve posted on this blog before how Ubuntu is making at best glacial progress on the desktop front, and at worst is stagnating completely.

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