From the ironic department comes this little turd of a story. Joyce Park is a coder for a company called Friendster. Friendster, as it's clever moniker implies, is a website dedicated to creating a network of friends via "6 degree's" type smoozing. Basically they make money by intruducing people and getting the to talk and communicate. That fact in mind, the recently fired....nay, shitcanned one of their programmers for discussing the change from java to php in her blog. While this information may seem technical, the disclosure of it in no way could affect security. Anyone with half a brain would be able to tell just by looking at the page. The primary goal of the post was to discuss the scalibilty of php over java in terms of meeting performance goals for the main user interface. They fired her for blogging. Not about corporate information, releasing proprietary code, or lack of productivity. They simply fired her for this one post. No warning, no notice, just a dismissal for blogging about something readily apparent in the url. if you have a friendster account I suggest you follow these directions to cancel it. More information:
- Fired for blogging
- shitcanned
- Fired from Friendster for Blogging
- Scott Sassa is a clueless newbie (I was gonna use the term asshat personally)