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The PostgreSQL project is trying something new by releasing 8.5alpha1 - thefirst alpha release they have ever done. “We’ve started doing alphareleases on the ‘release early, release often’ principle, so that our advanced users will try new features and new codeas early as possible and get back to […]

Dave Phillips takes alook at Guitarix. “According to its developers Guitarix is amonaural amplifier designed for creating the distorted sounds typical ofthrash, heavy metal, blues, and other rock guitar styles. In fact, Guitarixis capable of much more than distortion sounds. In this article I’ll removethe software speaker grill […]

Woohoo! Today’s Google logo celebrates one of my favorite authors of all time: Hans Christian Andersen!
The danish author is best known for his children’s stories including Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, and, my favorite, The Ugly Duckling. Born April 2, 1805, Andersen…..
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Facebook hires an open-source dudeCNET NewsBut Facebook's changing: it joined the OpenID Foundation earlier this year, made a big chunk of its developer platform open-source, and its Facebook Connect …David Recordon Leaves Six Apart To Join FacebookWashington PostOpen souce guru David Recordon joins FacebookComputerWeekly.comFacebook Snags Open Web Community Leader RecordonReadWriteWebSoftpediaall 11 news articles »

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“Be it an eCommerce site interacting with a payments processor, or with a new mashup technology, Internet applications continue their relentless march. Consumers get their functionality from multiple interacting web services now,” said James Langman, VP of Business Development at Comodo Group Inc. “In this new environment it is critical for web applications interacting through […]

There are at least three straightforward steps that best practices companies are implementing to achieve aggressive costs savings with their server virtualization initiatives. I’ll be reviewing these three steps in more detail, along with customer use cases, in a webinar on August 19th, “How to Get at least 2x Greater Cost Savings from Server Virtualization.” […]

An Internet service provider that has cut its deliveries to the Pirate Bay file-sharing site on Tuesday reported “major disturbances after sabotage.”
The disturbances reported by Black Internet AB came the day after the company announced it would immediately stop providing Internet connectivity to Pirate Bay, citing a court order.
A message posted Tuesday on the Pirate […]

After a lull where few new open-source vendors were signing patent-protection deals with Microsoft, the pace has begun to pick up again. On August 26, Tuxera Ltd anounced it has signed an intellectual-property (IP) licensing agreement with Microsoft; joined Microsoft’s exFAT driver-licensing program; and joined the Microsoft Interop Vendor Alliance. Tuxera, based in Helsinki, Finland, […]

As XML becomes ubiquitous throughout the enterprise, it increasingly taxes the systems that must deal with it. Even though there are a wide range of hardware and software solutions coming to market that aim to alleviate XML’s performance bottlenecks (See ZapThink’s XML Proxies Report), many developers are nevertheless resorting to a variety of tactics to […]