I couldn't believe it: read ScottGu's blog post . Finally, Microsoft is getting *it*. No need to fight it, no need to exhibit their traditional NIH mindset and create their own (as they have demonstrated many times, not only in the .NET platform). They're finally including a useful open source...
Nokia earlier announced that it will buy the remaining 52% shares of Symbiona that it currently does not own. The value of this stake is estimated to be around $413 Million. Nokia will then open up a Symbian Foundation along with several mobile companies and telcos (AT&T, LG, Motorola, Nokia, DoCoMo...
This is pleasant news: Dell and Ubuntu announced in a joint conference that Dell will be pre-installing Ubuntu 7.04 on some of its desktops and laptops . I have been using Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" 7.04 for over a week now and I am very much impressed by the software experience. It still has a few...
Ayende Rahien and Jeremy Miller brought forth the arguments in their respective blog entries, and I couldn't agree more. In fact I've seen that mindset first hand with my teammates in my previous employer. The first time I discovered test-driven development, I told my teammate about it. We were experiencing...
Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.
These past few days I have been exploring the OpenSource world and have been discovering great things from it. Most of my career so far have focused on Microsoft technologies, making me naive on the alternatives. First experiment: install PHP, MySql and Apache Server. I've read from forums that the...
It was merely a coincidence. But just a week after Microsoft and Novell made a highly-controversial deal about Linux, I now probably hold the dubious distinction of being (one of) the first person to do a Linux-oriented presentation in the Microsoft Philippines office. OK, it's not a Microsoft event;...