The very first time we saw GitHub demonstrated, it was clear to us that it was important to the Ruby on Rails community, and something that we wanted to be associated with. In fact, we felt so strongly that we immediately offered Tom, Chris and P.J. free deployment on Engine Yard in exchange for free accounts for our customers and developers.

eBay says it may have to shut down Skype due to a licensing dispute with the founders of the internet telephony service.

EA has a new way to annoy its own models: give out prizes for Comic Con attendees who commit acts of lust with their booth babes. Also, if you win, you get to take the lady out to dinner! This is going to end well for everyone involved.

CodeWeavers, Inc. today announced that recent sales trends position them to overtake Microsoft's operating revenue in 2018, based on Microsoft's fourth quarter report showing a 17 percent decrease in revenue quarter over quarter.

Too many people, especially in Europe, equate mistakes made by economists with a failure of economic liberalism. Their logic seems to be that if economists got things wrong, then politicians will do better. That is a false—and dangerous—conclusion.

Staff at Nepal's main international airport are to be issued with trousers without pockets, in an attempt to wipe out rampant bribe-taking.

So, a while ago Opera Software needed more servers. Not just a few servers either - we were planning Opera Mini's growth, implementing Opera Link, and My Opera was also growing quickly. We predicted crazy server load increases for the foreseeable future (and man, were we right!)

News reached the press today in Sweden - The Pirate Bay might get aquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB. A lot of people are worried. We're not and you shouldn't be either!

As part of a plan to restructure itself into a more innovative, efficient, and entrepreneurial business, MySpace announced today that it will reduce its staff by nearly 30%. This restructuring plan crosses all U.S. divisions of the company and lowers the total number of domestic staff at MySpace to 1,000 employees.

There are programming books aimed at kids, but none that I know of aimed at adult business users. There are people who could write themselves small, useful programs, but who will flee in well-justified terror if you start talking about overriding import hooks. There are people spending hours cutting-and-pasting from one file to another because they don't know how to write a six-line script. There are people could replace some of their daily tedium with just a little dose of Python. There is Resolver One, which is a fantastic way to integrate tiny dashes of Python with everyday spreadsheet work, but it's being used by thousands instead of by millions.