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North-by-South Outsourcing Open Source Projects
North-by-South, is an open source company based in San Francisco and Sao Paulo (Brazil), is getting work from the Bay and organizing teams of open source programmers from Central & South America to do the jobs.
Date: 2008-05-07
Clipperz's "Zero-knowledge" Approach To Managing Sensitive Data
Marco Barulli from Clipperz reached out to introduce their online password-manager. I'd been looking for a good solution for some time now. While their Password manager seems pretty cool, especially the Direct Logins feature, I'm more intrigued by how Marco and team will apply this technology to other areas.
Date: 2008-04-23
Google Announces App Engine
Unless Marketing Pilgrim was the first stop in your online news reading this morning-in which case we thank you-you've probably noticed the buzz surrounding Google's launch of Google App Engine. While web developers salivate at the thought of free web hosting for their online applications, no one is asking "Why?"
Date: 2008-04-09
Developer Manifesto For Responsible Reformatting
The recent introduction of reformatting proxies on the networks of Vodafone, Sprint and other carriers has caused a wave of pain for thousands of mobile sites. Apparently, those transcoders have totally spoilt the intended user-experience by adapting the content of already optimized sites..
Date: 2008-03-26
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Date: 2008-03-20
No Hard Drive In XBox Arcade
Xbox 360 Fanboy has an article about how developers are unhappy with the Xbox 360 Arcade (formerly the Core system) and its lack of hard drive. With the PS3 finally catching on, the fact that one console has a hard drive and one only sometimes does is annoying the hell out of them.
Date: 2008-03-12
Facebook Application Developers
In a couple of hours time I'll be on the panel at the second Singapore Facebook Developers Garage, which features the topic: "Marketing and Monetization of FB Applications: Hype or Goldmine?" The session moderator Bernard Leong has posted a kickoff post: Marketing and Monetization of Facebook: Prologue
Date: 2008-03-05
Build A Simple Adobe AIR Desktop Application Using HTML & JavaScript
I spent a some time recently preparing for the Adobe AIR & Flex 3 Launch Event at my ColdFusion user group. One thing I wanted to show people was how to build a simple Adobe AIR Desktop Application using HTML & JavaScript.
Date: 2008-02-27
Adobe Launches Director 11
Adobe has announced the availability of the latest version of Director - Adobe Director 11. With Adobe Director, Multimedia Designers and Developers can author once and publish their content for the web, CD/DVD and the desktop simultaneously. It is expected to be available by March end and international versions in French, German and Japanese by June, 2008.
Date: 2008-02-20
Rackspace: Taking the next Green step in IT Hosting
Take the environmentally friendly components we already use—low voltage processors, plus energy efficient drives and RAM. Put them all together so our configurations will run even greener. And then make it simple for people to choose the green configuration or customize one that works for them. It's not revolutionary, but it's smarter and better for the world and our customers.
Date: 2008-01-28
Generalizations About Software
A reader commented that MySQL isn't "enterprise ready", to which another reader wrote:
"I hate it when snobby DBAs or managers scoff at MySQL as if it isn't ready to play with the big boys. Google called, they'd like to loan you a clue."
Date: 2008-01-23
Commercial & Open Source Still Not Antonyms
Over the last few days I have just been reading my news alerts on commercial open source and I found out that someone still thinks it sounds like a contradiction in terms, others question about how open commercial open source is, while there are others who argue that OSS vendors have to sell products, not subscriptions.
Date: 2008-01-09
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