Episode 19 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Brad Williams (@williamsba) and Kevin Yank (@sentience).
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- SitePoint Podcast #19: Compuwhatnow? (MP3, 33.3MB)
Episode Summary
Here are the topics covered in this episode:
The Affiliate Tax
- Amazon: North Carolina Affiliates Will Be Terminated When “Unconstitutional Tax Collection Scheme” is Enacted (Another Good Reason to Use Skimlinks?) (Patrick O’Keefe)
- Amazon Associates To Pull Out Of North Carolina Due To “Unconstitutional Tax Collection Scheme” (TechCrunch)
- Update: Amazon Closes North Carolina Based Associates/Affiliate Accounts (Including Mine, Which Was At Least 9 Years Old) (Patrick O’Keefe)
- Amazon Drops More Affiliates Over Online Tax Issue (Information Week)
- Why Does North Carolina Hate Amazon? (The Motley Fool)
Compuserve Shuts Down
- Compuserve Shuts Down (Boing Boing)
PHP 5.3 Released
Firefox 3.5 Released
- Firefox 3.5 for Developers (Mozilla)
The HTML 5 Video Format Debate
- Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate (Ars Technica)
XHTML 2 Development Will End at the W3C
- RIP XHTML 2 (SitePoint)
- HTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML 5 (W3C)
Host Spotlights
- Stephan: DjangoCon 2009 calling for proposals
- Brad: Twittorati: Tob Blogs on Twitter
- Patrick: Eternal Moonwalk
- Kevin: The Open Web Tools Directory
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Kevin YankKevin Yank is an accomplished web developer, speaker, trainer and author of Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL and Co-Author of Simply JavaScript and Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! Kevin loves to share his wealth of knowledge and it didn't stop at books, he's also the course instructor to 3 online courses in web development. Currently Kevin is the Director of Front End Engineering at Culture Amp.
