Posts filed under “open source”

Real World Lisp

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Prompted by a question posed by one of my colleagues today, "has anyone ever used Lisp?", I surprisingly found myself being the only person that had. I played around with it many years ago after being inspired by Eric S. Raymond's seminal article, "How to Become A Hacker" in which he explained that "getting" Lisp [...]

BrowserPlus to become Open Source

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The new BrowserPlus framework - a way of extending your browser capabilities - will become open source next year, which seems a sensible way to increase its adoption: The big idea here is that we'll have the whole platform open sourced by mid-next year, and as soon as possible we'll have many of the services [...]

Google bringing new browser to the party

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Google have announced news of Chrome, a new open source Webkit-based browser. The central premise is that it has been designed from the ground-up to work efficiently with the demanding web applications of today's web. In particular, it features a JavaScript engine called V8 which can utilise multiple processes, as opposed to the single-process engines [...]

MySQL: Open Source, mostly.

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Interesting shift of focus from Sun/MySQL: MySQL will start offering some features (specifically ones related to online backups) only in MySQL Enterprise. This represents a substantive change to their development model — previously they have been developing features in both MySQL Community and MySQL Enterprise. jcole’s weblog: Jeremy Cole’s take on life. » Blog Archive [...]

links for 2008-02-21

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Yahoo! Launches World's Largest Hadoop Production Application (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!) (tags: apache development linux opensource technology)

Stephen Fry on the EEE PC and Open Source

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"The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan’t burden you with too much detail, I’ll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result." [...]

YMail

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I am, as of today, an official developer on the YMail.app project. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks you'll see the app moving forward, with at the very least, a version that works with the latest version of Yahoo! Mail. To make things more interesting, this is not an official Yahoo! product YMail.app on [...]