Building a .com in 24 hours

This is about how I spend 24 concentrated hours spread out over 4 days during Holidays to build the online service Wigitize.com. What I tried to do for this project is use some new methods/tools out there to solve practical problems in my weakness area: design, frontend coding, system administration and SEO.

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Scientology's secret documents hacked by /i/'s Splongcat

Hackers from the /i/nsurgency, a splinter group of anonymous raided scientology's secret, even sacred documents this morning. Documents were leaked. Splongcat, after raiding replied with "For the /i/nsurgency! Oh and, we did it for lulz." www.xanga.com/lordxenu

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Free Advanced DHTML Color Picker

When we were developing COPASO, we found that we needed to have a more advanced color picker to work inside the application… and since COPASO is built with DHTML it was easy enough to pull out the picker to use on the other creation pages of our site.

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Ohloh Ranks The World’s Coders

Ohloh, which ranks the nation’s top open source coders, is opening its service to let other developer teams track and rank their own teams. It’s the latest move by Ohloh, a Bellevue, WA company that already distributes its coder profiles and related data to about 5,000 open source sites.

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XKCD's amazing solution to chat noise

We’ve put together an auto-moderation system in an experimental channel, #xkcd-signal, and it seems to work well, so we invite you all to take part.

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Digg is hiring LAMP programmers

Just thought everyone should know we're still hiring here at Digg. So if you'd like to create the next generation of Digg features please submit your resume.

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Free the algorithm: Wikia launches open-source search engine

Jimbo Wales talks with Ars about the launch of Wikia's new open-source search engine. Even algorithms are editorial statements, he says, and Wikia wants to let its users take control of those statements.

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First look: Qt 4.4.0 with Phonon and WebKit

Trolltech has released the Qt 4.4.0 technical preview, a pre-release that provides developers with an early look at features in the upcoming Qt 4.4. We took a close look at the new features which include a new WebKit widget and the Phonon cross-platform audio engine.

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Object Oriented JavaScript - Should You use It?

This post shows how to program in Object Oriented JavaScript and why it is useful. It also touches on how Object Oriented Programming differs from Java and C++.

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Screw Rectangles! - CSS Tool to Wrap Text Into Any Shape

Easily wrap any text content into curves, slants or around any shape, then simply copy the generated code onto your website or blog. It has three methods for adding it to your site, including full CSS/XHTML or javascript.

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