soitgoes

And since then, he seems to be getting quite a bit of support in his fight: http://blog.runwayfinder.com/2011/01/07/the-lawyers-are-talk...

If it is open source, does the community provide any support to developers that find themselves in this situation? Perhaps the EFF or the legal team of an open source friendly company?

Thanks. Do you think it's okay to ask for a percentage of what revenue they take from the service? If so, what would be typical? I will host the service, they will point their customers at it.

For me it's:

Perl - Hacking

C# - Bread and Butter

Python - Happy

Although, there's quite a bit of overlap.

Nice change seeing the Django settings.py file scrolling by rather than the typical 'C' or unix command line output. Hopefully, that isn't the real secret key on display though.

Complex code is never good for security. In 2006, a small change was made to the Debian port of OpenSSL to do something like remove a few compiler warning messages. Unfortunately, it had the side effect of making the random number generator predictable. This security flaw wasn't discovered for over a year and in that time many weak keys were generated and used. See here for more info: http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys

http://www.google.com/ncr should take you to google.com rather than a local search such as google.co.uk. However, I still don't see anything with Chrome or Firefox when trying this.

A few podcasts I enjoy:

The Guardian's Media Talk podcast is normally very good: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/series/mediatalk

Robots, News and Views on robotics: http://www.robotspodcast.com

Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/

Radiolab: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/

Techzing: Startup and tech talk: http://techzinglive.com/

Mixergy: Startup interviews: http://mixergy.com/

Floss Weekly can be good depends on the guest: http://twit.tv/FLOSS

Re the SSL error, I think the problem maybe that you've forgotten to configure your server to send the intermediate CA certs. Without these certs the browser can't build a path to one of its pre-configured trust anchors.

To see what I mean, you can use openssl or this online tool: http://certlogik.com/sslchecker/

If you examine your website with it, you'll notice that only one cert, the server cert, is returned.

Now check, say, www.godaddy.com and you'll see a chain of CA certs returned in addition to the server cert.

Your web server docs should provide the details on how to add these CA certs. For example, I think Apache uses SSLCertificateChainFile.

Here are a few I enjoy:

Techzing

Mixergy

Radiolab

Floss Weekly

Stack Overflow (no recent podcasts from Joel and Jeff however)

Totally agree. After a major coding session earlier today, I spent a couple of very enjoyable hours gardening. The complete contrast really works for me. Although I do sometimes listen to a tech podcast at the same time :-)

I know what an important tool computers can be to the older folk in my life; so, yes, if the iPad allows more seniors to benefit from computers then that's fantastic.

My limited experience of older people and computers has been very positive. All the older members of my family (70s - 89) use computers for email, research, shopping etc. The eldest (90 in June) has been playing with computers for years and until very recently was having fun with programming languages and wrote quite a few simple python utilities. A couple of them use and are comfortable with cloud based tools like delicious. If I asked, I think they would probably give up TV before their PCs and laptops.

So much quality info! Very many thanks.

You could also encrypt with AxCrypt or similar beforehand to give defence in depth

Very helpful. Thanks. Just wondering, why you decided on going with RoR and if you considered any other frameworks such as Django?