ApacheCon Europe Deal: See great speakers, get great books
My friends Theo Schlossnagle, Laura Thomson and Chris Shiflett are each presenting at ApacheCon Europe. They are each excellent presenters with solid content - I have seen Theo present at a previous ApacheCon, caught Laura at several OSCONs and finally saw Shiflett speak at the PHP Quebec conference earlier this year.
The deal is simple - [...]
catcloud Wordpress Plugin
Update: This plugin is no longer maintained. I'd recommend using Wordpress' built-in tag cloud functionality or the Simple Tags plugin instead.
catcloud is a plugin for Wordpress that generates a tag cloud from the categories used for a blog. Tags cloud are visual representations of how frequently a tag is used within a given set of [...]
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ApacheCon EU 2006 CfP
Lars Eilebrecht writes:
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is proud to announce that ApacheCon Europe 2006 will be held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, June 26-30, 2006.
ApacheCon Europe is the official conference of the Apache Software Foundation in Europe. This annual event creates a unique platform for the Open Source community in Europe to [...]
Oracle: We are the Borg?
Local venture cap/tech blogger Paul Kedrosky recent posted that:
Larry Ellison has allegedly cooked up a plan to do a wide-ranging roll-up of companies in the open-source space. Not just JBoss, but a host of others, from Spikesource to Zend, and more inbetween. About the only sizable o/s company left standing would be Red Hat.
This may [...]
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FrOSCon Call For Papers
The first Free and Open Source Conference "FrOSCon" takes place on 24th and 25th June 2006 in St. Augustin, near Bonn, Germany, Organized by a commited team, it aims to become a significant event for free software in the Rhineland. The conference is hosted by the faculty of computer science of the University of Applied [...]
Firefox 1.5 Released
Firefox 1.5 has been released! If you've been using Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3, congratulations: you already have Firefox 1.5.
Power users upgrading from Firefox 1.0.7 will appreciate draggable tabs, a much faster Back button, and the replacement of many error dialogs with error pages. Web developers and can now take advantage of SVG, Canvas, [...]
Sofia I
Salle met me at the airport, his short salt and pepper beard made even more bristly by a broad grin.
He shouldered one of my bags and we walked out of the small airport into a cool and rainy night.
The evening was late. Roads wet with rain shone under yellow streetlight. A few cars were on [...]
Tutorial at OSCON 2003
I will be presenting a tutorial session at OSCON 2003 with EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien
Details on the tutorial are below:
Who Watches the Watchers: Developing "Translucent" Applications that Protect Sensitive Data
Applications that collect, store, and manage sensitive data often rely on combinations of application-level security mechanisms and role-based access controls to protect the [...]
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After flying from Stuttgart to San Francisco, I am fried - however, it was an interesting trip.
I sat next to a gentleman named Ashok - a half-Belgian, half-Indian attorney. This was a funny coincidence, since you could say that I am also half-Belgian, half-Indian. However, to be more accurate, Ashok is half-East-Indian and I am [...]