On the fall and rise of the GNU GPL
In preparation for my presentation at OSBC tomorrow I’ve been looking back at some of the key trends that influenced the commercial open... more »
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Android Tops iPhone as the Fastest Growing Platform
Black Duck Software, which provides comprehensive open source software services, reports that mobile open source thrived in 2009 even as... more »
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Reinventing the Browser
Ben Galbraith, the co-director of developer tools at Mozilla, says that on the surface browsers are getting simpler, but the code is... more »
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Daily Dose - IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees
IBM stopped its headcount of US employees, making it harder for policymakers to understand the labor market signals. Microsoft pulled... more »
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Does Nexus One’s Poor Numbers Mean a Strategy Change?
Gizmodo is reporting today that the Nexus One, released in early January as Google’s flagship Android smartphone product has had very... more »
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What parallel programmers really really want...
We asked an open forum of developers and project managers in Paris what they considered to be the chief obstacles that were slowing down... more »
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Microsoft Announces Hardware-Accelerated HTML5, Pushes Boundaries on Web and Cloud Development
Microsoft releases first platform preview for Windows Internet Explorer 9, highlights commitments to jQuery and OData.
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Games development in JavaScript: part 1 – frameworks overview
So, you want to create games in JavaScript? With it's flexibility, cross-platform abilities and user mass, JavaScript seems to be the... more »
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Why Adobe is using HBase
Our team builds infrastructure services for many clients across Adobe. We have services ranging from commenting and tagging to structured... more »
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Weekly Poll: What Companies Will Be at the Top of the Cloud in the Next 5 Years
We take a look at the future of cloud computing services this week. We want to know: What companies do you think will be at the top of... more »
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Why software creation is a perpetual challenge
Software production is an imprecise process. Can it ever be automated? What are the reasons for its unguaranteed outcome and unpredictable timeframe?
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The Cost of "Free"
"You never get anything for free." I remember my parents telling me this when I was a kid – and it's proven true time and time again.... more »
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CPUs speed and technology innovations
The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. This empirical... more »
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9 Killer Tips for Location-Based Marketing
So-called “lo-so” networks like Foursquare (Foursquare), Loopt, and Gowalla (Gowalla) enable any business with a physical location to not... more »
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12 Easy Steps To Create a Cool Type Treatment
What makes the difference between an average design and a kick ass design? Concept, contrast, colors...
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Agile vs Planning
a lot of Agile Methods tend to flat-line (in terms of benefits it provides) at a point in a project life-cycle. where the cost of... more »
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2010 Seems to be a Promising Year for DZone, Audience is Rising!
From about 60K Daily unique visitors in the late 2009 to more than 75K last month. Go DZONE !!!
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60 Best Websites To Download Free Fonts
There are hundreds of different websites that offers you to download free fonts. So in this article I have put together a list of the 60... more »
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Enterprise Software Development Conference Retrospective
This is the first year for this show and, as Alan Zeichick notes, it takes up where the old SD West conference left off.
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Do you use Job Boards!?
Elance, Guru and Odesk are popular job boards for developers, but do you get any quality work from there?
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Intel Releases $125 'Affordable' SSD
Affordable is the word Intel wants associated with this drive, but the price per gigabyte is the same as that of its higher-capacity... more »
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Going beyond Flash, Adobe shows off Web tech
Sure, Adobe Systems spends a lot of effort developing and promoting its Flash technology. And sure, a lot of the new "Open Web"... more »
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Developing new startup ideas
If you want to start a company and are working on new ideas, here’s how I’ve always done it and how I recommend you do it. Be the... more »
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Is This the End of Enterprise Software?
The future of enterprise software is the platform. No software company has all the smart people in the world on its payroll. Apple... more »
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Why TDD is based on testing first
Test-Driven Development is a design technique that is wildly spreading in the PHP world. One of the pillars of the red-green-refactor... more »
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