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Easier internet addresses

No Comments// Posted in Geek, Tech by Rene Zuleta on 11.14.09.

Tim Berners Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with creating the World Wide Web in 1989, doesn’t seem like a man who has many regrets. But he admitted earlier this month at a symposium in Washington that his decision to include those annoying forward slashes in http addresses was made on a whim. If he could change one thing about the Internet now, he says, he would slash the slashes, which are completely unnecessary.


White House site is now running on Drupal

No Comments// Posted in Tech by Rene Zuleta on 10.26.09.

white-house

WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system developed by General Dynamics INformation Technology (GDIT) and that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software, as the AP alluded to in its reporting yesterday.


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