Posting this on behalf of a friend:

If you are are interested in Google's developer technology; everything from the Android and App Engine platforms, to product APIs like the YouTube API and the Google Calendar API, to initiatives like OpenSocial and you live in Massachusetts, please join this group.

http://groups.google.com/group/mass-gtug?hl=en
http://massgtug.gtugs.org/

Can anyone recommend a Drupal training course (online or in person) for new Drupal web administrators?

I have extensive experience in web management, but have never used Drupal.

Also, any books that are worthwhile?

Thanks,
Wendy Lin
MIT CTL

Will someone take an action item to add RSS functionality to this site? Given the low traffic, it would be nice if the home page would allow people to receive an RSS feed of all of the forums.

Once traffic increases, we can think about how to make subscriptions more granular.

Jeff Schiller sent the following to ITPartners on July 31st, 2009:

At this week’s “Black Hat” conference yet another attack on SSL was
unveiled. Its an interesting attack, but probably nothing that is
immediately practical (though the jury is not completely back on
that!).

While thinking about the attack, and how to defend against it, I
thought that it might be useful to put together a seminar on how to
program websites in a secure fashion. It turns out that this is
trickier then it seems on the surface. There are plenty of ways to do

Does anyone have a recommendation for a PHP development environment?

I've been using Eclipse for Java development, so I'm going to look at the PDT Eclipse plugin. I was wondering what experience people have had with this, or other PHP dev tools.

Steve

I'd chatted briefly with Steve about using developers.mit.edu to create a few forums for peer-to-peer user support on unsupported IT topics. Similar, perhaps, to the intent behind the Linux Users but more broadly applicable.

A few follow up questions:

• Who all should I talk to to find out if we can use developers.mit.edu for this?
• Is it possible to create a sub-section of forums, perhaps with a small topic list, so we don't crowd out or confuse the developer forms with a number of user/peer support forums? Or is the forums list limited to a flat list?

I'd like to throw out a suggestion to create a "Tools & Utilities Developers" forum. I know most of these seem to be by language or platform, but there are a lot of folks at MIT writing random scripts, tools, utilities, Firefox plugins, and so on that it would be great to create a community around.

Reusing, sharing, and modifying these is common practice (although it's sometimes hard to find them or connect with others) and could save a lot of time for folks.

Oliver

IS&T is currently looking for volunteers to add foreign language support to small number of web pages. The current list of languages that we seek to add are: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese, and Mandarin. Volunteers that can add additional languages will not be turned away.

For more information please contact MIT's touchstone-dev mailing list.

Company Description

We are a Cambridge-based web startup founded by two recent Harvard graduates. Our site, which aims to revolutionize college travel, is still in development but recently took top prize in a major competition for Harvard entrepreneurs. We are assembling an in-house team to complete development this summer (in time for launch on college campuses in the fall).

Job description

The following was sent to map-support from an external address:
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May I place an ad to find someone who is interested in working with me to
develop Apple Iphone/Itouch app's (person may already have the apple G3
SDK)? I have concepts and need a person to do the code. I'm in Boston