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Following threads from the Clipperz blog, I read this exchange of messages between Chris DiBona & Greg Stein of Google and a group of folks that want Google to host AGPL'd projects on Google Code. (I'd urge you to read the thread as
Use the Spring application context to secure your JSF applications
One of the most important elements of open source is building a great community. Some projects get momentum and some don't and a lot of it has to do with how well you manage online forums. There's a great book on this subject by Patrick O&#
Matt Asay has been telling me for years about his great pie-making abilities. And he's talked about inviting folks out to ski in Utah for a long time. Well, it all came together for two days this past week with the first ever Open Source Goat Ro
I recently caught up with BitRock's CEO, Erica Brescia, & founder Daniel Lopez to hear more about BitRock & BitNami. BitRock's goal is to help drive the widespread use of OSS products by reducing barriers for both customers
After our late night April Fool's dolphin stunt last week, I got roped into doing an early morning video shoot to preview some of the upcoming items for next week's MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara. I did this on about 4 hours sle
Rich Internet Application (RIA) vendor Curl, named InfoWorld's 2008 Technology of the Year in the RIA category, announced that they will be rebasing the Curl IDE on Eclipse. The Eclipse-based product, named Curl Development Tools for Eclipse (CD
Many of you likely read highlights from Gartner's "The State of Open Source, 2008" report a few weeks back. You can read the report here. Considering all the hype around cloud computing, I re-read Gartner's comments on OSS and clo
While I was on my way to the Open Source Goat Rodeo gathering in Utah, Bill Snyder, another blogger over at InfoWorld, posted a story called "Open Source Databases: The 97 Pound Weakling?" Despite the odd headline, Snyder's post has so
Swing-based application wizardry with the Wizard API