Comments for Ian Bicking: a blog

Comment on A Simple CMS by justinjools

justinjools — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:58:09 +0000

Try concrete5: next generation CMS, with user friendliness, easy interface and easy development in mind

Comment on Net Neutrality: forcing companies to pay attention to their networks by David

David — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:57:37 +0000

I think you are right on when you say that infrastructure providers can either make their network excellent or try to compete on “creative” aspects. However, if all the providers do is provide a commodity service, then the only point of competition is price. These providers will avoid this policy at all cost and I hate to say it but it’s probably in their best interest to do so. In business, companies are always trying to differentiate their services because there’s relatively little profit to be made in a fairly efficient commodity market. I’m a big fan of net neutrality, but somehow the infrastructure providers need to be incentivized to provide a neutral network.

Comment on toppcloud renamed to Silver Lining by Dr Silver

Dr Silver — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:40:05 +0000

If you care about SEO, I would use “silver”. I doubt anyone searches on “ag” for silver.

Comment on A Simple CMS by Necie

Necie — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:48:20 +0000

I have experience with php, Wordpress and others. I have not been successful at creating a CMS site. I would like to create a light user friendly CMS site and I’m afraid I’m going to have to fork out a lot of money for it too.

Comment on Net Neutrality: forcing companies to pay attention to their networks by Nick Grossman

Nick Grossman — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:53:06 +0000

Yeah, really well said Ian. It reminds me of Fred Wilson’s recent piece on this, which sparked one of the most interesting comment threads I’ve read in a while.

Comment on The GPL and Principles by Bryan Livingston

Bryan Livingston — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:50:39 +0000

GPL is anti-commercial. You generally can’t use GPL code in your commercial software, so the viral elements of it actually do LESS to lower the cost of software than putting it under an unrestricted license.

Comment on lxml.html by Catalin Festila

Catalin Festila — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:13:27 +0000

I test your example . I have a question about this. If the result is another page (see your source “result = parse(submit_form(f)).getroot()” ). And this page has another form , how is correct way to repeat your example to use the new form ? I try with : page2=parse(result).getroot() but i got some errors . Thank’s

Comment on Pronouncing “Django” by ingilizce ogren

ingilizce ogren — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:09:59 +0000

I would say it’s a hard j – in Turkish there’s the letter “c” witch is pronounced like a hard j and sometimes written as ‘dj’ in English – Like “hodja” – ‘hoca’

Comment on Net Neutrality: forcing companies to pay attention to their networks by Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:49:00 +0000

Great post Ian. Thanks.

Comment on Surveillance, Security, Privacy, Politics by Jeremy Weiland

Jeremy Weiland — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:45:44 +0000

Your sister is a hero to me, because it shows the rest of us exactly how urgently we need to fight this authoritarian regime here at home. This essay hits the nail on the head. I’m keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers.