Speaking UNIX: Go Fish! The Friendly Interactive Shell
(Dec 4, 2008, 15:33 UTC) (688 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "The Friendly Interactive Shell, or fish, is a joy to use. Its syntax, context-sensitive help, and color-coded command-line interface (CLI) greatly simplify the use of UNIX and ease the burdens of scripting."

A Ride With Hessian
(Dec 4, 2008, 05:33 UTC) (808 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Noor: "Today, I came across what I call a deep-sea pearl. I came to know Hessian, the binary web service protocol."

A Microsoft Veteran Embraces Open Source
(Dec 4, 2008, 00:03 UTC) (1615 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
New York Times: "That in itself isn't unique. More unusual is that Mr. Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, the world's largest software company, believes deeply that open source is the future of software."

Linux Clone of Microsoft's Silverlight in Beta
(Dec 3, 2008, 15:03 UTC) (1413 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
InternetNews: "Linux users are getting closer to full Microsoft Silverlight functionality to view rich media applications on the Web. The Novell-sponsored Moonlight project today released its first beta of its Linux implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight media framework."

Camp KDE 2009 Takes Shape: Presentations Announced
(Dec 3, 2008, 10:33 UTC) (584 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "Late last week, the Camp KDE 2009 presentation selections were announced. In addition to the presentations, the meeting will feature the traditional keynote addresses and birds-of-feather meetings."

Top 10 Software Development Articles of 2008
(Dec 2, 2008, 23:01 UTC) (1346 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "We covered a lot of ground this past year -- from Python to MPI, GPUs to NUMA -- so without further ado, here are the 10 best software development articles posted to Linux Magazine in 2008."

Expand Your User-Authentication Options With Mouse Dynamics
(Dec 2, 2008, 13:01 UTC) (643 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Learn how to apply the open source tools cnee and Perl in mouse-click dynamics to measure the more subtle characteristics of human-computer interaction. Then use the number and hold time of mouse-click events to help authenticate users."

The Robot - Progress and a Video
(Dec 2, 2008, 10:01 UTC) (761 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Adam's Tech Talk: "The majority of the previous hardware issues have also now been solved which is good. The degrading CF cards was caused by a bad Alix board (I’d probably blown a resistor somewhere at some point). A replacement Alix board has arrived while I sell the other on eBay as faulty for any enthusiast who may wish to try and repair it"

Java and Linux - an Open Marriage in Search of Success
(Dec 2, 2008, 08:31 UTC) (1347 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Register: "In 2004 Eric Raymond wrote an open letter to Sun Microsystems' then chief executive officer Scott McNealy demanding Sun open up their core Java intellectual property and allow anyone do whatever they damn well please with it."

Harvest Comes After the Seed is Planted
(Dec 2, 2008, 05:31 UTC) (701 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
17LAmp.net: "Opening new markets, forging new friendships and strengthening existing relationships is an ongoing challenge. It requires a consistent effort over time and rarely shows imediate results. Done with honesty, openness, fairness and perseverance it does pay off."

Linux on the iPhone: Penguin Poop in Apple's Walled Garden
(Dec 1, 2008, 23:04 UTC) (1139 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ars Technica: "An iPhone hacker has successfully ported the open source Linux kernel to Apple's popular mobile device. Although the port is still at a very early stage of development and currently only supports a slim subset of the iPhone's capabilities, it demonstrates the versatility of the Linux kernel and the ingenuity of iPhone modding enthusiasts."

The State Of The Tux3 File-System
(Dec 1, 2008, 18:04 UTC) (1691 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "Btrfs has received much of the limelight on Linux when talking about file-systems since it promises to compete with Sun's ZFS file-system and introduce several features not found in the commonly-used EXT3 and EXT4 file-systems. However, work on other Linux file-systems hasn't halted. EXT4 should be stable with the Linux 2.6.28 kernel and work on the Tux3 file-system continues."

The 2008 Guide To Open Source Hardware Projects
(Dec 1, 2008, 17:34 UTC) (1008 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Wired: ""What is open source hardware? Briefly, these are projects that creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and "board" files to recreate the hardware - they also allow any use, including commercial. Similar to open source hardware like Linux, but hardware centric."

Proprietary Firmware and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel
(Dec 1, 2008, 16:34 UTC) (888 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: "The GNewSense team was the first to point out that the Linux kernel contained proprietary firmware blobs, and that many kernel drivers depended on external proprietary blobs, and has dedicated itself to producing an operating system with all this material removed."

Ride the D-Bus, Control Your Linux Desktop From the Shell
(Dec 1, 2008, 15:04 UTC) (1797 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Foss Boss: "Many utilities nowadays are implementing D-Bus connectivity. It is especially interesting (well for me anyway) to script some GUI elements like for example my KDE-4 desktop from the command line. This would help automate some tasks and is cool anyways. Let's see how to begin talking on the D-Bus."

Val Henson meets the Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer
(Dec 1, 2008, 12:17 UTC) (1371 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Val Henson's Homepage: "Hello! It is 1969, and my wonderful husband has bought me a Honeywell Kitchen Computer to help me with my cooking! It is a $10,000+ status symbol from the Nieman Marcus catalog. It will replace my unwieldy and difficult to use recipe box. How I love my Kitchen Computer! And my husband!"

Interacting with Databases through the Java Persistence API
(Nov 30, 2008, 12:03 UTC) (1724 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Packet: "With Java EE 5, Entity Beans were deprecated in favor of JPA. JPA took ideas from several object relational mapping tools and incorporated them into the standard. As we will see in this article by David Heffelfinger, NetBeans has several features that make development with JPA a breeze."

Cisco Offers $100,000 Prize Money to Linux Application Developers
(Nov 30, 2008, 08:03 UTC) (2690 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Cisco is offering $100,000 in prize money to Linux application developers that help the networking giant defeat Microsoft in the unified communications market."

Build semantic Web CRUD operations using PHP
(Nov 30, 2008, 04:03 UTC) (1267 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations are the most basic database operations, but they are also the most crucial. CRUD operations are typically done using the Structured Query Language (SQL) on relational database systems. As the Web is becoming more and more data-oriented, there is a need to shift from SQL-based CRUD operations to semantic Web-based CRUD operations. Learn how to use PHP to perform CRUD operations over the semantic Web."

Interview with Jokosher maintainer Laszlo Pandy
(Nov 29, 2008, 20:02 UTC) (953 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Footnotes: "In this first in what I hope will be a series of interviews about linux multimedia I talk with Laszlo Pandy, the leading force behind audio editing application Jokosher. In addition to talking about Jokosher itself and Laszlo's involvement we also will talk about the general state of Linux multimedia."

Obtaining Alfresco Web Content Management (WCM)
(Nov 29, 2008, 16:02 UTC) (1467 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Packt: "In 2007, Alfresco released its formal web content management functionality that added features most people expect when they think of a Web Content Management (WCM) offering, including templating, site preview, snapshots, virtualization, and deployment."

Asterisk Founder Talks About Hardest Part of Being Open Source PBX Creator
(Nov 26, 2008, 17:33 UTC) (1843 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "Imagine an IP voice and unified communications system that can be integrated into any application and customised to meet business needs... Well that project is the Asterisk IP-PBX and it's free to use and you get the source code."

A Tale of Two Forks
(Nov 26, 2008, 04:33 UTC) (2086 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Today Blog: "While I was writing last Friday's editor's note, "Linux Should Copy Amiga", I kept thinking what a different story it would have been if Amiga had been released under a Free Software license. I'm sure I'm not the only one with that thought..."

GCC hacks in the Linux kernel
(Nov 26, 2008, 03:03 UTC) (2075 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it on new architectures. Linux further exploits features in GCC, called extensions, for greater functionality and optimization. This article explores many of these important extensions and shows you how they're used within the Linux kernel."

Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP
(Nov 26, 2008, 01:33 UTC) (1528 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
WebReference: "In this chapter, we explain how to access the Book-O-Rama database from the Web using PHP. You learn how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data."

Flash Alternative: Processing Version 1.0
(Nov 26, 2008, 00:03 UTC) (544 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "This past weekend has produced a version 1.0 of Processing, a Flash alternative product that runs under GPL."

Open Mobility?
(Nov 25, 2008, 20:04 UTC) (919 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "...when people did talk about "Openness", it had the focus of "It is great that your product is open, but why should I open up mine?""

Closed Linux Driver Problems Described
(Nov 25, 2008, 18:04 UTC) (1600 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "Binary-only Linux drivers will never work for the majority of Linux users, Harald Welte told hardware developers at a Taipei conference. The Linux kernel's lack of an ABI and intentional lack of stable APIs make binary drivers a losing battle purely for technical reasons, he suggests."

Pointillism Meets Pixelation: Using the Java 2D API to Animate Art
(Nov 25, 2008, 02:34 UTC) (1089 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Paul Reiners shows how to animate images in unexpected and artistic ways using the Java 2D API and cellular automata. In the process, he demonstrates implementation of an image operator in Java code and explains cyclic space, a type of 2D cellular automaton. You can use the ideas from this article to create your own image operators and artistic programs using Java technology."

Debug Your Shell Scripts With bashdb
(Nov 24, 2008, 23:33 UTC) (1356 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "The Bash Debugger Project (bashdb) lets you set breakpoints, inspect variables, perform a backtrace, and step through a bash script line by line. In other words, it provides the features you expect in a C/C++ debugger to anyone programming a bash script."

Open-Source Mod for Grand Theft Auto
(Nov 24, 2008, 21:03 UTC) (1225 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "Today we are marking a new milestone in the history of Multi Theft Auto [...] we have made the decision to re-launch Multi Theft Auto as an open-source project."

The Sad Story of the em28xx Driver
(Nov 24, 2008, 16:33 UTC) (1660 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LWN.net: "What we have here is a classic story of an impedance mismatch between a developer and the development community. In the process, this long story has helped to give the Video4Linux development community a bit of a reputation as a dysfunctional family - a perception which those developers are only now beginning to overcome."

World's Smallest Humanoid Robot Can Run Linux
(Nov 24, 2008, 14:03 UTC) (1142 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxDevices: "Mobisense is shipping a Linux-ready, robot-targeted "MBS270-520" single-board computer (SBC) that can control small robots such as Tomy's i-Sobot. The 6.5-inch-tall i-Sobot has been dubbed "the smallest humanoid robot in production" by Guinness World Records, says Tomy."

Common GCC 4.4 Build Problems
(Nov 24, 2008, 06:03 UTC) (1872 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Journal of Martin Michlmayr: "Martin Michlmayr built the Debian archive with a snapshot of the upcoming GCC 4.4 and described common build failures: some failures are caused by stricter preprocessor checks in GCC 4.4 and many by missing #include statements."

No More Microsoft Internet Explorer for the 2010 Soccer World Cup
(Nov 24, 2008, 02:03 UTC) (2997 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
dwayne's blog: "If you are planning to be at the soccer world cup in 2010, planning to deliver your web content to a 2010 audience, then these trends are very important. They influence what technology decisions you need to make today to deliver to your 2010 audience."

Planning Extensions in TYPO3
(Nov 22, 2008, 14:03 UTC) (1247 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Packt: "Most open source developers see planning as a boring task. Why plan if one can just go and code? The answer is as simple as the question: The "Go and code" approach does not let us create truly optimal code."

Editor's Note: Linux Should Copy Amiga
(Nov 21, 2008, 23:03 UTC) (36940 reads) (77 talkbacks) (feedback)
Mark Shuttleworth made headlines not too long ago when he called for the Linux desktop to surpass Mac OS X in both beauty and functionality. While a lot of folks thought that was breathtaking and audacious, I think he's aiming way too low. I think Linux should aspire to equal or better the Amiga OS.

GCC Hacks in the Linux Kernel: Discover GCC Extensions for the C Language
(Nov 21, 2008, 21:03 UTC) (1805 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "The Linux kernel uses several special capabilities of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) suite. These capabilities range from giving you shortcuts and simplifications to providing the compiler with hints for optimization. Discover some of these special GCC features and learn how to use them in the Linux kernel."

More Milestones in Linux Kernel Development History
(Nov 21, 2008, 20:03 UTC) (1254 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Developer Network: "After we published the "Estimating the Total Development Cost of a Linux Distribution" whitepaper, out of curiosity I wondered where in the overall development history of the Linux kernel the $1 billion number was actually reached. There was also the desire to trace the history of Linux and monitor its growth. Here's what I came up with."

Book Review: SQL Hacks
(Nov 21, 2008, 11:03 UTC) (1189 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "SQL Hacks: Tips & Tools for Digging into Your Data by Andrew Cumming and Gordon Russell sets itself apart through format, easy-going style, and ability to cover lots of tips, tricks, and hacks with Structured Query Language."

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