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Open Source Licensing for Scripts (GPL)

by Ciprian on August 23, 2007 (1730 days ago) | One comment

“GPL” stands for “General Public License”. The most widespread such license is the GNU General Public License, or GNU GPL for short. This can be further shortened to “GPL”, when it is understood that the GNU GPL is the one intended. The process involves adding two elements to each source file of your program: a copyright notice (such as “Copyright...

Advanced Alternate Query Search Operators – Link

by Ciprian on August 23, 2007 (1730 days ago) | No comments

When using these operators, keep in mind that the syntax, or form, is xxx:URL, where xxx is the operator and URL is the domain name, also known as the web page’s URL. For example, a search for links to one of my favorite web pages is link:www.mypage.com/en/content/page.php. Note that you do not need and should not include the “http://” portion...

Advanced Alternate Query Search Operators

by Ciprian on August 23, 2007 (1730 days ago) | One comment

Google supports several advanced alternate query search operators. These are special query words that the Google search engine recognizes and then responds to accordingly. A discussion of advanced search operators is found at http://www.google.com/help/operators.html. The advanced alternate query search operators are: cache: Shows the version of the web page residing in Google’s cache; link: Lists the web pages that include...

50 Best Websites 2007

by Ciprian on August 21, 2007 (1732 days ago) | No comments

It’s really hard to navigate the web, through all the noise and garbage sites who try to spam everyone, or try to imitate other brands just for the sake of exposure. And maybe they get their share of 10 seconds of glory. Until the user realizes that it’s just another garbage site. As a solution for this web pollution (nice...

One issue. One day. Thousands of voices.

by Ciprian on August 19, 2007 (1735 days ago) | One comment

What would happen if every blog published posts discussing the same issue, on the same day? On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone...