File sharing is an example of transferring large internet phone amounts of data across the Internet. A computer file can be e-mailed to customers, colleagues and friends as an attachment. It can be uploaded to a website or FTP server for easy download by others. It can be put into a "shared location" or onto a file server for instant use by colleagues. The load of bulk downloads to many users can be eased by the use of "mirror" servers or peer-to-peer networks. In any of these credit card processing cases, access to the file may be controlled by user authentication, the transit of the file over the Internet may be obscured by encryption, and money may change hands for access to the file. The price can be paid by the remote charging of funds from, for example, a credit card whose details are also passed—usually fully encrypted—across the Internet. The origin and authenticity of the file isp received may be checked by digital signatures or by MD5 or other message digests. These simple features of the Internet, over a worldwide basis, are changing the production, sale, and distribution of anything that can be reduced to a computer file for transmission. This includes all manner of print publications, software products, news, music, film, video, photography, graphics and the other arts. This in turn has caused backup software seismic shifts in each of the existing industries that previously controlled the production and distribution of these products.

Sorry for the lack of links. I might add them in later.

Hosting, dreamhost offers lifetime free 501(c)(3) hosting, linode.com has great virtual server hosting, and nearlyfreespeech.net is also a good option if you have basic needs.

Content server management apps like SlashCode, Joomla, Drupal, but check out Movable Type.

Mentioned Moose for Perl, Zed Shaw and his rant, ORMs for Perl, other languages and employers for Perl geeks.

I mentioned some languages I am working with, such as Scala, Groovy/Grails, Java and found a neat PLEAC for Groovy.

Also, IRC on freenode and irc.perl.org

May have others from my place of employ too.
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