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How IBM builds up its store of Linux knowledge

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 06, 2009

Ask anyone in the IT industry if they could have predicted years ago that a company like IBM would come to be known as one of the biggest users of Linux, and it's doubtful if there would be a single answer in the positive.

Category:

IT Vendors/Companies > IBM

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ibm linux

10 ways Microsoft could help Linux

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 06, 2009

I confess, I never thought I would write such a title. Microsoft helping Linux? No way. I was always of the mind that Microsoft and Linux would forever be mortal enemies and one, hopefully Linux, would rise above the other in absolute world domination.

Category:

Operating Systems > Linux

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business linux microsoft opensource

Testing SMTP servers with SWAKS

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 06, 2009

When changing software configuration it is always a good idea to test things as thoroughly as you can. In the case of SMTP it is generally possible to test things offline pretty easily, and then perform simple tests via a manual telnet - but the SWAKS tool makes SMTP-testing even simpler.

Category:

Linux Distros > Debian

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debian gnu linux opensource SMTP

OpenOffice.org: Linking to external data from Calc

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 06, 2009

You can insert tables from HTML documents, and data located within named ranges from an OpenOffice.org Calc or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, into a Calc spreadsheet.

Category:

Technology > Data

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calc Data openoffice tips tricks

Free RIA tools for students, teachers and unemployed developers

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 06, 2009

Over the last couple of weeks I've been personally inundated with hundreds of requests for free Flex Builder licenses from developers who have found themselves unemployed due to the current economic climate - whilst no one wants to be in that situation, I'm glad that we've been able to do something, albeit small, to help people who have been affected and who want to learn Flex.

Category:

Web Development > AJAX

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adobe flex free ria

JBoss Communications Platform online user guide

Submitted by Webmaster on Monday April 06, 2009

Network and application convergence are causing sweeping change in the communications industry. And increasing demands on providers. Red Hat delivers the tools that help carriers and service providers deliver next-generation communications: An infrastructure that cuts costs and increases performance. And a true open development platform that encourages rapid innovation.

Category:

Application Servers > JBOSS

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documentation jboss redhat user-guide

Create a Twitter Application in Seconds

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday April 03, 2009

Got a simple app you want to build? Allocate 5 minutes for initial code generation, slice setup, and initial deployment. All from the command line. In one command. Booya!

How long does it take to start a new Rails project? Surely just a moment? rails new_project -m path/to/some/template.rb

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Popular Websites > Twitter.com

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apps rails twitter

Web 2.0: Why Twitter uses Scala?

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday April 03, 2009

Find out why Scala sets the standard for next generation languages, and why it's a great choice for Web 2.0 architecture.

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Popular Websites > Twitter.com

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scala twitter web

Railo goes Open Source

Submitted by Webmaster on Friday April 03, 2009

This is a great news for the CF community. Railo has gone open source 2 days ago. And they have a brand new website www.getrailo.org .

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Technology > Software

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opensource railo

Linux adoption grows

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday April 02, 2009

The current economic climate will lead to the increased adoption of Linux in 2009. This is according to a market survey by IDC, which states Linux is in a good position to emerge from this downturn as a stronger solution.

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Operating Systems > Linux

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business linux opensource

Planning for GNOME 3.0

Submitted by Webmaster on Thursday April 02, 2009

During the first few months of 2008, a few Release Team members discussed here and there about the state of GNOME. This was nothing official, and it could actually have been considered as some friends talking together about things they deeply care about.

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Technology > New Feature/Release

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gnome gui linux opensource xwindows

Google launches CADIE

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday April 01, 2009

By reviewing all the code available on the Internet CADIE has learned how to code in Java, Javascript, PHP, C/C++/C# and Python. She is hungrily consuming all the code she can and seems to understand it all.

Category:

Technology > Development

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cadie development google

BlackBerry App World Now Available to download

Submitted by Webmaster on Wednesday April 01, 2009

The Official BlackBerry App World - BlackBerry App Store has been released. It is now time to spend money on these cool little apps.

Here is a link to download BlackBerry App World:
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/appworld/?

Here is a link to the featured BlackBerry App World Apps:
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/appworld/featured.jsp

As always you can navigate there using your BlackBerry:
http://mobile.blackberry.com

Category:

Cellular/Mobile Phones > Blackberry

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apps blackberry

Digium launches support services for Asterisk

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday March 31, 2009

Coming 10 years after Asterisk's launch, Digium announced the general availability of annual support subscriptions for open source Asterisk. The new service options are expected to give organizations warm-fuzzies when working with the IP telephony platform and include technical support, hardware replacements and substantial discounts on training programs.

Category:

Technology > VoIP

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asterisk digium opensource voip

InnoDB & Google: Software is Hard Sometime ..

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday March 31, 2009

Some months ago, Google released a patch for InnoDB that boosts performance on multi-core servers. We decided to incorporate the change into the InnoDB Plugin to make everybody happy: users of InnoDB don't have to apply the patch, and Google no longer has to maintain the patch for new versions of InnoDB.

Category:

Database Management Systems > MySQL

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google innodb mysql opensource

Announcing Fedora 11 Beta

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday March 31, 2009

Since this is a Beta release, there may still be some rough spots still in the polishing phase. Some of them are already known and in the process of fixing.

Category:

Linux Distros > Fedora

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fedora linux opensource

Skype Available on Apple App Store

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday March 31, 2009

Free application enables millions of iPhone and iPod touch users worldwide to take their Skype conversations with them.

Category:

Technology > Marketing/Promotion

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app-store apple iphone ipod-touch skype

Introducing Silverlight for MySpace Apps

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday March 31, 2009

Silverlight empowers MySpace developers with more freedom and flexibility to design OpenSocial applications that provide streaming video, graphics and audio to a variety of platforms and devices. Silverlight and the MySpace Open Platform will enable developers to rapidly create and deliver sophisticated MySpace applications with a custom look and feel through the flexible skinning of controls and data.

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Technology > Development

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myspace opensocial platform silverlight

10 reasons to get started with bug and issue management today

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday March 31, 2009

A list of 10 reasons:
1. Build self-documenting projects.
2. Integrate issue tracking with your source control management system (you are using version control right?)
...

Category:

Technology > Development

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development issue-management version-control

JBoss Serialization simple example

Submitted by Webmaster on Tuesday March 31, 2009

I know this is a rather trivial thing, but serializing non-serializable objects is not very well documented online (as far as I could see), so thought I would post an example using the well known solution JBoss Serialization.

Category:

Application Servers > JBOSS

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jboss serialization

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