Chris Tyler has setup Teaching Open Source, with an aim to establish a collaboration point between various efforts around open source education. Why do we need another open source advocacy site? Like David Humphrey says, If you’ve spent any amount of time working in open source and education youâ€...

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The free, multi-platform iTunes assaulter (if not quite killer) Songbird busts out great improvements for a 1.1 version, including a one-click album art grabber, performance improvements, and loads o' little tweaks. The killer new feature is a single menu option, u...

Logo mais começa a abertura oficial do evento, 9:00h da manhã direto do Resort Summerville em Porto de Galinhas. Ontem tive a oportunidade de conhecer pessoalmente um dos criadores do Amora (A MObile Remote Assistant), o Adenilson Cavalcanti,um cliente escrito em Python para telefones Nokia S60 e ...

Microsoft is sponsoring a zero day event for open source ISVs again this year, just before the Open Source Business Conference kicks off. These events are always interesting. Sam Ramji, Microsoft Sr. Director of Platform Strategy always hosts an excellent open discussion at the start of each day. Wh...

Like many others I really like Ant and I intend to keep using it until something better comes along. And I strongly feel that when you try to use *only* Maven for everything, you give up control over a few things. Are there things that Ant does better than Maven? Oh yes, IMHO. Here are a few example...

I grew up with old-school email tools in Linux. The primary tool I used was Pine. Pine was simple, elegant, reliable, and insanely fast and lightweight. Of course Pine was a text-based email client only. To view graphics or html you had to invoke an external application. Pine also wasn’t a ...

So, you want to build a game, but all of that coding and leg work sounds too much like… well… work. Isn’t there another option? The answer is a qualified “Yes.� You’ve heard of this thing called “open source� which many penny-pinchers translate as free. While this is not the place fo...

I spent the weekend in DC at TransparencyCamp, an event modeled after BarCamp focused on government transparency and open access to sources of federal data (largely through APIs and web services). Down the street, a social-media savvy conference called PowerShift convened over 12,000 of the nation&#...

I posted yesterday about wanting to use my phone to publish my location in realtime, and I got a bunch of fantastic responses both in the comments and as emails (thanks folks!) I fooled around with some of them with varying degrees of success. Nokia Sport Tracker seems like it would be great! Howeve...

Das Thema "Wahlkampf im Social Web" scheint aktuell massiv die Gemüter zu bewegen. Morgen werde ich mit einer Journalistin über das Thema sprechen, und während ich dabei bin, mich ein wenig auf das Telefonat vorzubereiten, kam mir der Gedanke, aus meinen Stichpunkten für das Telefonat ...