A free and open source Flash player has emerged this week in beta. The Lightspark beta is close to having full ActionScript 3 support and it even includes...
0 replies - 14804 views - 05/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Today the Apache Software Foundation graduated five sub-projects and one incubator project en masse to Top-Level Projects. Mahout, Nutch, Tika, Avro, and...
0 replies - 13751 views - 05/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Web security has been a major topic of concern this year with the alleged Chinese-based attacks on GMail users, and more recently the infiltration of Apache's...
0 replies - 18637 views - 04/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
GUIdancer is an Eclipse-based automated functional testing tool for GUI's. Tests in GUIdancer can begin before an application's under test is even...
0 replies - 7344 views - 04/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
At the Tech Heaven event this week, Intel and Carnegie Mellon University unveiled rudimentary mind-reading software that uses an MRI to scan your brainwaves in...
0 replies - 12480 views - 04/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
You may have heard that Google is looking for deserving US cities and towns to host their experimental 1GBps fiber-optic networks. The competition for these...
1 replies - 13392 views - 03/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
I've got lots of examples of places where Conway's Law has turned a
good idea into a poor implementation. A classic is a data warehouse
where there were...
1 replies - 6949 views - 03/23/10 by Steven Lott in News
A new open source web application security hole scanner is available from Google on the Google Code site. The tool, named Skipfish, is similar to Nmap and...
0 replies - 12997 views - 03/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
IBM has recently stopped providing breakouts of the US employee numbers in its annual report. The company has shown steady hiring outside of the US,...
0 replies - 20095 views - 03/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
I have published The Single Page Interface Manifesto. The objective of this manifesto is to promote the progressive disappearance of the use of pages not only...
23 replies - 20152 views - 03/11/10 by Jose Maria Arranz in Articles
One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year. Some more details have finally surfaced about this...
0 replies - 15571 views - 03/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Today is a major milestone in the evolution of the web as an open
development platform. Appcelerator's newly unveiled Titanium 1.0 framework
lets web...
3 replies - 19607 views - 03/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Former Novell CTO Becomes W3C
CEOSince the summer of 2009,
the W3C has been looking for a CEO and today they found one. Jeff
Jaffe, an Ex-Novell CTO,...
0 replies - 14939 views - 03/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A while ago I wrote about some rules of thumb
that I'd been taught by my colleagues with respect to software
development and I was reminded of one of them...
7 replies - 6615 views - 02/17/10 by Mark Needham in Articles
From the developers who brought you Selenium, comes a new free and open source distribution of Selenium 1.0.1 RC with commercial support and added open source...
1 replies - 13445 views - 02/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
