At last, it’s happening. This is all over the Internet today, a message from Google to the world: In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. [...]
I was browsing Change.gov’s new Open Government feature over the weekend, where the incoming Obama administration is posting all proposals submitted to them by special interest groups, something that’s never been done before. And a step that bodes well for a more open, transparent government (21st century government in the 21st century, who could’ve imagined?). [...]
Just before the election, when no one cared (read: I didn’t care) about anything else, one piece of news went unnoticed in my RSS reader: a Federal appeals court ruled that anything that is not directly related to a machine or object is not patent-able. So essentially, software interfaces and processes are no longer patent-able. [...]
A couple tidbits from the past couple days: Indiana Democratic Convention: I attended the convention Saturday in Indy…turns out I was on the ballot for district 3. Ha. I guess I checked a box on the delegate app that I wanted to run as a delegate. The former mayor of Ft. Wayne, Graham Richard, beat [...]
Our developer team has a weekly “show & tell” meeting every Friday afternoon where we all talk about what we got done that week, what the improvements are, and what’s coming up. We also get to critique each other’s work and fist fight discuss what works and what doesn’t. We’re now going to let you [...]
Here’s a photo and blog post from a Plone Strategic Planning Summit (Plone’s an open source content management system) that happened last week. David, a former RedPost employee, is third from the right in the front row. While we miss him, it does look warm out there, so we can’t complain too much:
Ok, in light of my last 2 posts, I just have to post this. Verizon Wireless has announced they are opening up their network (I’m not sure if this means they’re withdrawing their lawsuit against open access from 2 months ago). Something everyone else except for AT&T has already agreed to and T-Mobile and others [...]
I just got back from Indy/Lafayette, so I don’t have a good blog post prepared, so I’ll just give you some tidbits. To the person who dropped off a less than 1 year old Pavilion notebook for recycling: it still works, it just has some boot problems which we worked out…it’s still yours if you still want it [...]
The local high school is giving out copies of OpenEducationDisc, a free CD loaded with open source software: The purpose of it is to provide students with the software that they need to complete school work at home. Most students don’t have jobs and it is unfair to ask for them or a parent/guardian to buy expensive software to get [...]
There’s an interesting post at News.com’s blog about the results of a survey done by Barracuda Networks (conflict of interest alert: Barracuda has a vested interest in the results of the survey). They asked 288 enterprise customers why they choose open source and proprietary software. The top reason for choosing open source: price, which reflects [...]
