Archive for February, 2006

SourceForge.net gets Subversion

Subversion is now an option at Sourceforge. Info can be found here. I’ve never really liked cvs so this is great news for me. The chance of me contributing to a project hosted there is now about 1000 times greater.

February 28, 2006 • Posted in: Open Source, Web • Comments Closed

Good take on Web 2.0

I know this is old, but if you haven’t read it, you must. This guy nails it on the head. If you have ever said the words “web-two-oh “and “ajax” in the same sentence, I worry you have been carried away. Reading the above link will guide back to earth.
I simply must quote…
To you who [...]

Digg comment system – pearls before swine?

There is a cool video of the new Digg comment system. It really does look SLICK. Now it will be so much easier make comments like:
Why this on digg?
hee hee
lol that rules!
HAHA!
lame, no digg
Dupe!
This is really old. It was on /. about half a year ago. So no digg for you.
Still really cool even [...]

Free USB Key :)

MS acknowledges that their licensing can be confusing and they offer a free USB key preloaded with MS propaganda to help you in your path to licensing enlightenment. I doubt there is any info about the GPL on there :(
Find it here…
Click the link on the right of the page that says, “Get Yours!” and [...]

February 28, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous • Comments Closed

DevUtah’s February Geek Dinner

DevUtah’s February Geek Dinner will be held at the Miller Business Innovation Center on Wednesday February 22 at 6 PM.
David Spann and Alistair Cockburn will lead a discussion on “Introducing Agile to the Organization”. If you’ve heard of Agile methodologies but can’t get others in your organization interested; or if you’ve been a member [...]

February 16, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous, Workplace • Comments Closed

Compiz and Xgl from Novell

Novell has been hard at work. The they have released their Xgl graphics subsystem and the ‘Compiz’ compositing manager and it’s source code which they have been developing in-house. I sure hope that the X.org guys are able to plug ‘n’ chug with it. The site has some good videos but the *sweet* vids [...]

February 9, 2006 • Posted in: Linux, Miscellaneous, Open Source • Comments Closed

The SPAM has started!

Blog spam is here.  It only took a few weeks.  Now “adult” themed sites feel like they get to leave comments here that are really just stupid links back to their site.  For now, I’ve disabled comments but this will only be until I figure out how to restrict the spam.
Plese feel free to comment [...]

February 8, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous • Comments Closed