Before the official announcement went out, the final version of PostgreSQL was released this weekend. If you browsed the PostgreSQL FTP server you could find...
0 replies - 19890 views - 09/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The first beta of the Virgo Web Server (formerly the Spring dm Server) is getting very close now that the Eclipse Foundation released the fourth milestone...
0 replies - 18616 views - 09/06/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers. This would include more complex emoticons for human-to-human interaction as...
0 replies - 20363 views - 08/30/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
In a recent blog entry, Adobe's open source and standards director David McAllister remarked that “the axis of evil has shifted south about 850 miles or...
0 replies - 22157 views - 08/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Several reports are saying that the Chrome operating system will be here by the end of November. That's because on November 26th, Google plans to release a...
0 replies - 24084 views - 08/18/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Sure, maybe you didn't find a use for Google Wave, but a core group of loyal users sure did. These users are now fighting to keep Google Wave from being shut...
0 replies - 17119 views - 08/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Since the last beta, Ruby on Rails 3.0 has had over 842 commits by 125 developers. That's the level of polish you can expect when you download the first...
0 replies - 15466 views - 07/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The newly released Lightspark 0.4.2 is another alternative implementation of the Flash Player (others include Smokescreen and Gordon) that is designed to be...
1 replies - 13189 views - 07/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The first release candidate for Ruby 1.9.2 was released this week and it passes 99% of the RubySpec tests. It's mostly compatible with version 1.9.1 and it...
0 replies - 13610 views - 07/07/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Simon Phipps acknowledged some of the "stone throwing" aimed at the Open Source Initiative. Some of the criticism, he said, was not without...
2 replies - 11835 views - 06/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
An official Google message posted by a non-Google party revealed a thin client functionality called Chromoting (unofficially). Chromoting will be built into...
0 replies - 13428 views - 06/11/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The latest developer channel version of Chrome now has support for WebM, which includes the VP8 video codec. Believe it or not, Chrome is actually the third...
0 replies - 12587 views - 06/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
For years, IBM has been at the top of the server game, but a new study by Gartner says that HP is the new leader in server revenues. In Q1 of 2010 HP...
0 replies - 13451 views - 05/26/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
After Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's scathing comments criticizing the (mis)management of Sun Microsystems, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz had only one thing to...
1 replies - 14158 views - 05/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The Mozilla Metrics blog announced the publishing of the foundation's first ever quarterly analyst report on browser share and other internet insights. The...
0 replies - 14564 views - 04/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
