#li3 = Lithium = Cake3
10-25-09If you follow the goings on with CakePHP in any way, and you haven’t had your head buried in the sand the past week, then you probably already know that Nate Abele (@nateabele) has followed Garret Woodworth (gwoo) out of the door and left the CakePHP project. Nobody has stated reasons but seeing some IRC snippets and reading between the tweets it seems that the reasons behind the departures are centred around disagreements with the project lead Larry Masters (PhpNut).
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6 Things Derek Powazek Taught Us About Linkbait
10-21-09Note: I meant to post this a few days but forgot, so it’s been sitting as a draft ever since. Better late than never though I guess!
Every now and then the SEO industry as a whole comes under attack from certain individuals, often times due to sheer ignorance, but also occasionally as a means to attract publicity for themselves. The individuals that instigate these attacks are generally so called ‘rock stars’ in their own industries and as such, tend to develop over inflated egos and start to exhibit diva-like tendancies - the perfect ingredients for a grand-scale keyboard fight.
This week it was the turn of some guy called Derek Powazek, who posted an entirely unsavoury and derogative post on his blog entitled Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists.
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