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user registration

So while I was investigating django's built in comment templates, and trying to get them working (the documentation is on Adrian's VERY long todo) I checked out LJWorld and how they use them. The first thing I noticed was their cool idea for User registration. Instead of making me fill in all the details and then having to wait for a some key-code (and creating a ...

Patents - can you keep them to yourself?

Why do people persist on copying the idea of a patent throughout the blogosphere? You CAN'T use the idea. If anything, it might stop you doing something you might have done. knowing about a patent LIMITS your design. The damages are increased if you KNOW about the idea and do nothing, compared to not knowing, and complying with it once you find out Publicising the patent might ...