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52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O

On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...

Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Python Community, Steve, Programming Languages, Performance Management, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-04-09

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Why Google released Closure Tools

another nail in M$ coffinIt seems Google is second to FSF to send M$ to its grave.You are an idiot....First of all did you even read the article...Not only the article makes no senselike your idiotic rant aggainst MS but it contains several errors.AJAX is javascript and is not unique...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, tool, Rhino, JavaScript, Java, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Microsoft admits the obvious but not the truth

Microsoft admits the obvious but not the truthObviousMicrosoft reminds me is so many ways of General Motors of the 1970's. I suspect that the end result will be much the same. Companies, like countries and people have life cycles.Still not convinced about open sourceAs a consultant dealing with...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, people resource, Microsoft Corp., Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Sun VirtualBox 3.0

Sun Microsystems released VirtualBox 3.0 today. One goal of this release is supporting workloads, such as database management systems, some collaborative applications and many web-based applications that rely on multiple processes running simultaneously. Another is offering support for high performance graphics for desktop applications. Here's...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Hypervisor, Sun Microsystems Inc., VirtualBox 3.0, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-30

JumpBox for the MoinMoin Wiki 1.1.10 (Windows)

MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible Wiki Engine with a large community of users. It's written in Python and has a clean easy to understand user interface. Since it's a Python program it's not one of the most popular wikis, but that's a shame as it has...

Tags: Server Software, Microsoft Windows, JumpBox, MoinMoin, Wiki, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Backups, Servers, Online Communications, Hardware, Storage

Software downloads 2009-06-24

JumpBox for the MoinMoin Wiki Software 1.1.10 (Mac)

MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible Wiki Engine with a large community of users. It's written in Python and has a clean easy to understand user interface. Since it's a Python program it's not one of the most popular wikis, but that's a shame as it has...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Server Software, JumpBox, MoinMoin, Wiki, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Backups, Servers, Online Communications, Hardware, Storage

Software downloads 2009-06-17

Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'

Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Papercuts? More like deep stab wounds that require major surgery.You can't polish a turd. It still has linux underneath it. The problem is there is no fixing linux. Its inner workings of being a mesh of...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-06-16

Bing muscles in on IE6 users

Bing muscles in on IE6 users Why Bing FailsBecause just a Microsoft is the most untrusted company in the world, why should any search results from the same untrusted company be trusted.re: Why Bing Fails"Bing is not Google, but it is a spin engine.""...the most concise summary of why...

Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, Bing Fails, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, IE6 user, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Microsoft makes available PHP development kit for its Azure cloud

Microsoft makes available PHP development kit for its Azure cloudThats pretty interesting.MS has been putting alot into PHP the past year or so....more than Google and their app engine. Google went the Java route and have Groovy and Python to counter PHP. It will be interesting to see where the...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, PHP, Azure, development kit, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

Apple to developers: Conform or die

Apple to developers: Conform or dieWhat if end users don't want 3.0?What if I'm an iPod Touch user and don't want to paid for the upgrade?I know a few friends still on iPod 1.0. They can make do with no AppStore. If Apple is forcing 3.0 down to developer's throat,...

Tags: Apple Inc., developer, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

Your next software buying decision: zero cost?

Your next software buying decision: zero cost?Open Source it!The beauty of open source technologies and hiring skilled talent not people who want to haul in a bunch of proprietary software the extorts tens of thousands of dollars for nothing on return.Having skills to develop and maintain your own infrastructure is...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, open source

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

Shuttleworth: Oracle now largest open source player

Shuttleworth: Oracle now largest open source playerUm...largest HOW???In market cap, maybe. In volume of code/projects, NO WAY. Try apache or sourceforge for that.RE: Shuttleworth: Oracle now largest open source playerOkay, lets see, Oracle, has a database, Sun has MySQL, hmmm, Sun as Solaris, and there is OpenSolaris, hmmm...

Tags: Java development tools, Programming languages, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Oracle Corp., open-source player, Shuttleworth

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Oracle-Sun: an enterprise catastrophe

Oracle-Sun: an enterprise catastropheonly M$ sees it as a catastropheHaving a serious and rich contender for Linux, Office, sql & .net gives Balmer cold sweats.Everyone else is happy, may be except IBM.Your right DennisOracle is REALLY GOOD at making a profit. Ellison is a forward thinker, he was the first...

Tags: Linux, Databases, Programming languages, OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Corp., GREAT NEWS, Microsoft Corp., analysis, database, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Open source and the shrinking waterhole

Open source and the shrinking waterholeOpen source is the futurentMoment of truthMany open source companies have been kept afloat by selling "support" which was in reality donations in disguise from sympathetic supporters of the open source ideology.Those sympathizers now face much more difficult questions when they try to artificially make...

Tags: open source, OpenSource

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

10 skills developers will need in the next five years

10 skills developers will need in the next five yearsYou forgot one thing!You need to be able to work for the same or less hourly wage than someone in India, Russia, or China. Qualifications are one thing, but CEOs always go for cheaper. Being able to work for...

Tags: .NET, Scripting languages, Application servers, Programming languages, Middleware, Development tools, Microsoft .NET, skills developer, Ruby, Java, Adobe Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux

Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxTestTestRE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxHiRE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linuxbig deal the browser is useless anyway, im way happier with my ff3 :)RE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxAwww poor...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Web browsers, OPEN SOURCE, Chrome, Google Inc., Linux, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?

The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?I don't see it.I don't see where this is helping anyone. It seems like any help MS is giving to Novell is being tied up at Novell. For instance Novell's version of Open Office. I don't really see any of that coming down or...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Novell Inc., Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Attack, Flaw, Lifelock, Nathan McFeters, Nominee, Security, Vulnerability, XSS, XSS Flaw

Blog posts 2008-07-21

The Manor 1.0.1 (Windows)

The next generation of 2-D virtual chat. Try the software absolutely for free, visit all the Manor virtual chat communities, make your own props, make new friends.Wear any picture as an avatar -- in full 32-bit color!You can wear any picture as an avatar -- movie stars, cartoons, animals, a...

Tags: Software, Avatar, Python, Microsoft Windows, MadWolf Software, Tools & Techniques, Scripting Languages, Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-07-08

(Linux's dirty little secret)

(Linux's dirty little secret)Possible workaroundI am also new to Ubuntu, although I have used early RedHat versions on a server. But Ubuntu is based on the Debian Linux release which uses a different package manager aptitude than Redhat's RPM. If you cannot find an apt-get compatible package, you may be...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-06-30