After tweeting back and forth with a friend of mine over what language to use for our next project, I came up with a idea I want to try for our readers. Everyone is a fanboy of one language or another. What I want to do is challenge each of you to tell me “What language is the best and why?” in 160 characters or less (a single tweet). Post them in either a comment or send them to my twitter. I will then post the best and most creative ones in a post later this week. Also I would like to thank the HardOCP and Digg community for the recent traffic influx.

It seems that everyone has their own idea of what Web 2.0 means.That is one of the pitfalls to using a single buzzword to define everything you see on the internet. I have heard people describing nearly every new website as being Web 2.0 as if it was describing the launch date of a site. The term ironically is the most popular category on Resourceful Idiot. In leu of this, I am going to finally give you the definition of Web 2.0 and the principles that define it. In order to do that however, I need to start from the beginning with Web 1.0.

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After talking with our editor, I have decided to start a series on business models. Each Thursday for the next couple weeks I will be taking a look at different business models for development startups. In each article there will be an overview of the model, when to use it, its advantages, and disadvantages. Each post will be filed under the series category so you can view the entire set of posts by selecting it from the right column. The series has yet to have a name and I am open to suggestions so post a comment if you have an idea! We want to get some discussions going on around here. 

My friend, Clint Rutkas, is heading down to Maker Faire this weekend with his half finished skateboard segway. Doing events like this is not only fun, but can be a great resume building event. Not only does it show that you have a passion for technology, but is an invaluable networking tool. Speaking from experience at Imagine Cup, I met so many people who I will be keeping in contact with that I would not trade it for the world. If you ever have the ability to participate in it, I would highly recommend it.

This is an off topic post for this blog but I feel it fits under the name “Resourceful Idiot”. Well it seems that Activision cannot get anything right and with the latest CoD4 patch actually caused more connection problems than fixed. If you are like many who cannot go through more then 1 or 2 games before getting the “Connection Interrupt” screen, do not worry your not alone. This issue has been acknowledged by the community and developers and is being looked into. As for a fix, the only thing that has seemed to help me is to sign out and sign back into your Live account. I encourage anyone who is having this issue to post their solutions in a comment. Now back to your regularly scheduled postings.

Upon installing macports on my OSX machine I found that I come across the following error:

port: command not found

Well upon doing a quick search of I found my answer.

nano ~/.bash_profile

#paste the following:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin

export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/share/man

export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/opt/local/share/info

Ctrl+O

Enter

Ctrl+X

Now just reload terminal and everything should work like a charm. I newb proofed this article for the sake of those users who have not used the nano editor.