When worlds collide... As a technology professional, focused on the Internet, how could I not love the web site Open Source Food? If only for the name, it's a great idea, but the content is wonderful as well. OSF is a social networking site that is all about recipes that have pictures and are rated by the community.The site is not nearly as vast as AllRecipes, having only launched recently, and not having nearly as many users. But the users do seem to be loyal and active, similar in that Web 2.0-way to users of Yelp and in that Web 1.0-way to users of Chowhound.Originally, I heard about this site through a co-worker, Tim, who I believe is related or friends with the founders of OSF. Since you likely don't know Tim, I get the honor of letting you know. Go check out Open Source Food and let us know what you think.
A few days back, Google CEO Eric Schmidt advised the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) that it borrow a few pages out of the Web 2.0 book. If NASA does take this advice seriously, it would result in some of the best minds collaborating, experimenting and producing some of the best technologies ever. The CEO did not hesitate to admit that while open source had it benefits, it would also come with the risk of the nation spending the American peoples tax money; not to mention the danger of such a project. Fine tuning would certainly be of vital importance. The maxims that underlie the Web 2.0 meme emphasize interaction and innovation and involve intense use of open source software. The term open source essentially denotes source code of certain softwares that can be obtained freely and applied along with the right to use it. Open source softwares have been used in a lot of different types of ventures like for coding firewalls, computer security software
CSK, and has been renamed to dashCommerce, dashCommerce is an ASP.NET Open Source e-commerce application that is a very flexible and robust incorporating all three major components of an e-commerce application, namely, product catalog, shopping cart, and order fulfillment. This starter kit requires the .NET Framework 2.0 and SQL 2000 or SQL 2005 addon. This cart is nice example of Custom ASP.Net Programming as well as Open Source Projects!Here is features list of DashCommerce:Online StorefrontFast installation Installs within minutes. Administer from your web browser.Self managed product catalog Add your own products, images and pricing information.Shopping cart Includes a fully functioning shopping cart with built-in shipping and tax calculators.Capability Accept all major credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, PayPal.Customer ServiceAnonymous/registered shopping Enable anonymous shopping or require user login.Nonpaypal account Customers are not required to have
Even before the release of osCommerce MS2.2.2, in June 2003 the new domain name Zen-Cart.com had been registered. A team was put together comprised of Ian C Wilson, Kim Elliott, Steve Strassburg and Linda McGrath, and the first Zen-Cart.com Web site was posted in November 2003. Besides streamlining the programming and utilizing CSS (cascading stylesheets) rather than the evil and outdated font tags, the Zen Cart team's philosophy was to make it easy to upgrade the store, and to offer frequent, small updates. The Zen Cart team released its version 1.3.8 on November 30 of 2007. The group has announced that by February 5, 2008, the minimum supported PHP version will be the current version, PHP 5.2. Wilson says the group created an umbrella company in March, 2007 which is exploring the possibility of financing the Zen-Cart open source e-commerce system, called Zen Ventures LLC. If the group is successful at obtaining financing, some method of earning revenues would necessarily have to f
“Una providencial ráfaga de viento incursionó en la habitación en ese preciso momento con fuerza tal, que envió por los aires en una danza alegre las miles de cartas-petición recibidas en la última semana; una de ellas al ritmo de danzón circuló por el recinto varios segundos para caer como mariposa cansada en el regazo de San Nicolás quien con infantil emoción leyó la misiva enviada por un pequeño originario de América Latina según pudo leer; ¡Deus ex machina! exclamó en impecable latín, tengo la solución, escuchen les leeré la carta de José:”Hola querido Santa:Soy José tengo seis años y vivo en Latinoamérica; me encuentro muy jubiloso de que viene Navidad y de seguro me traerás muchos regalos, pero también estoy triste porque mi papá tuvo no sé que problemas con su trabajo. Mi papi trabaja haciendo dibujos para que los señores que venden cosas los pongan en los periódicos y vendan mucho; pero esta Navidad llegaron unos señores de micro no sé qué y
Part Foundry are currently working on a dongle that will bring the long-desired GPS feature to the iPhone. Branded as locoGPS, the device promises true GPS backed by open source software, but if the teaser video is any indication, it may not be the GPS experience you're expecting. The photo you see above is only a concept design. In its current stage of development, the locoGPS is a rough piece of hardware that uses a slightly confusing toggle process to get GPS working on any Jailbroken iPhone (they are also in the testing phases for an iPod touch solution). The early software merely finds your coordinates and plugs them into the Google Maps application. For now, thats it. The beauty of the locoGPS is that it can be improved upon because of it's open source design. If this gets a real time navigational map and a few useful plugins, it could be a popular iPhone add-on. But for now, the locoGPS raises eyebrows on potential alone. Part Foundry expects the locoGPS to start shipping in Feb
Para Santa ese año había resultado más gélido que de costumbre; con una edad paralela a la de Cristo, los villancicos anuales menguaban poco a poco las capacidades de su cuerpo, haciendo dolorosos los pasos y las risas en un desgaste acumulado a pesar de la sugerida magia que se le atribuía; ¿que saben los humanos?, balbuceó mientras se arrellanaba en el mullido sofá color chocolate compañero grato de las tardes boreales. Recibió con esmero el calor que le proporcionaba la chispeante fogata, su gran confidente, la que sin remilgos transformaba cada tarde las mentiras en placebo. Le gustaba seleccionar personalmente el combustible con el que alimentaba las llamas purificadoras. Desde el mes de noviembre empezaba a recibir miles de toneladas de combustible, pero el proceso era arduo, había que tener mucho cuidado en la selección; solo las cartas de niños que mentían eran transformadas en gratificante fuente de calor...A papá Noel le preocupaba mucho -de 5 años para ac
This 3 software are my Favorite web editor, have a simple layout editor and usage, and the most important thing is this software are FREE.
Support to many web programing language like PHP, CSS, Javascript, (X)HTML and etc, Featured with colorized text for different language and more support with auto complete/auto suggest feature.
Go to provided links and you'll see more information on it.
This 3 software are my Favorite web editor, have a simple layout editor and usage, and the most important thing is this software are FREE.Support to many web programing language like PHP, CSS, Javascript, (X)HTML and etc, Featured with colorized text for different language and more support with auto complete/auto suggest feature.Go to provided links and you'll see more information on it.Dev-PHP Editor Dev-PHP is a well-featured integrated development environment (IDE). You'll be able to create scripts and applications using the PHP scripting language and the PHP-GTK library (both included in the "PHP Package").Dev-PHP is free software under the GNU General Public License, which means you can freely modify or use the source code under the terms of the license.tsWebEditorAt the first view it's only a simple text editor. At the second view no more. tsWebEditor will improve your daily work with (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSL, PHP, ASP and surely other languages. If the features fit
MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has
MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet (mediacoder.sourceforge.net).This software can do many thing like convert to and from many audio and video compression formats ,re-multiplex into various container formats in batchesFull control over transcoding parameters, you can learn about audio/video encoding and play with various codecsStrong decoding capability for partial or corrupted contentsSimplified UI for popular mobile devices (e.g. PSP, iPod) Fully standalone, no dependance on system codecs/splitters Extension (scripting language) infrastructure to expand user interfaces and impr
MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet (mediacoder.sourceforge.net).This software can do many thing like convert to and from many audio and video compression formats ,re-multiplex into various container formats in batchesFull control over transcoding parameters, you can learn about audio/video encoding and play with various codecsStrong decoding capability for partial or corrupted contentsSimplified UI for popular mobile devices (e.g. PSP, iPod) Fully standalone, no dependance on system codecs/splitters Extension (scripting language) infrastructure to expand user interfaces and impr
NASA's new crew exploration vehicle, Orion blasts into space atop an Aries I rocket. (Illustration by Transluszent.de) The "brains" of the Ares I rocket that will send four astronauts back to the moon sometime in the next 12 years will be built by Boeing, NASA announced todaybut the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts. The avionics unit will provide guidance, navigation and control for the launch rocket, which will carry the Orion crew vehicle into Earth orbit.The combined Ares I and Orion will replace the Space Shuttle and become the workhorse that takes astronauts into space for journeys to the Space Station, the Moon and Mars, said Doug Cooke, a official with NASAs Exploration Systems division. The Shuttle is currently slated for retirement in 2010.The $800 million avionics deal is the last one in a series of four Ares I contracts issued in the past five months, totaling $5 billi
While this is good, is it too little too late? With the massive install base for Wordpress, moveable type has a long upward struggle in the blogging platform business. With Wordpress looking at becoming more socially active, Moveable Type might be too far behind the installation base to meet up with where Wordpress is already. [...]
Il buon flux sar sicuramente contento di questo post. Anche questa volta si parla di un sito che riguarda l'open source (che come noto fa rima con Linux, ma non solo...).Il sito in questione si chiama osalt.com, gi molto famoso e conosciuto, mi rivolgo quindi a chi ancora non lo conosce.Osalt il fratello di Webi ma l'approccio leggermente diverso. Con osalt.com possiamo trovare le alternative open source partendo dai programmi commerciali.Siete in cerca di un'alternativa ad Adobe Photoshop? No problem, basta andare nella sezione "graphic application", scegliere Adobe Photoshop e vi compariranno le alternative open source (Paint.Net, Gimp, Gimpshop, etc...).Non manca l'aspetto collaborativo che ci permette di segnalare un programma per ampliare la lista di alternative.Sicuramente un sito da aggiungere tra i preferiti.Link | Osalt
Ormai moltissimi programmi gratuiti o open source (FLOSS) sono diventati una validissima alternativa ai programmi commerciali, basti pensare a Blender, Gimp, Open Office, e tanti altri (sicuramente ne ho scordato qualcuno illustre....).Sono talmente tanti che bisognerebbe realizzare un sito e organizzarli tutti per categoria.... beh ci hanno pensato i realizzatori di Webi.Webi un sito dove, divisi per categoria, sono elencati tutti i programmi freeware e open source. Ad esempio nella sezione antivirus/antispyware insieme ai gi noti ClamWin e Spybot - Search and destroy troviamo altri programmi, magari meno noti, ma non per questo meno utili e validi.C' anche una sezione giochi dove, sempre divisi per categoria, troviamo moltissimi giochi del mondo freeware e open source.Link | Webi
Open vs. Walled - let the best win.
Recently in Boston, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, was pushing a theme that is dear to many of us. The Mobile Web should grow with open standards. The Walled Garden approach should be abandoned.
The mobile Internet needs to be fully and completely the [...]
Independent The dollar's decline: from symbol of hegemony to shunned currency The decline of the dollar, symbol of US global hegemony for the best part of a century, may have become so entrenched that some experts now fear it is...
Open-Source Warfare By: Robert N. Charette | IEEE SpectrumTerrorists are leveraging information technology to organize, recruit, and learn — and the West is struggling to keep up.ON OPEN SOURCE GUERRILLA VANGUARDSby John RobbNOTE: Working through some thoughts on warfare theory...
Woop woop! Awesome event last night, thanks heaps to the Catalyst crew for organising it and congrats on your 10th anniversary.
Needless to say, we’re very proud of Koz, and of all the finalists - especially the ones we know! Good on zoomin for taking out the business category and also to the likes of Silverstripe [...]
You might now the Random Good Stuff Shop if you are looking for gift ideas or we also have a Movie / DVD Store on our Movie Recommendation Site Criticker. On the RGS Shop I am adding products by hand and the Criticker is getting the products via Data Feed from Amazon. And both variations [...]
Nominations for the 2007 Open Source CMS Award have been counted and the top five for each category have now been selected and gone through to the final stage of voting. With over 16,000 nominations, competition was tough however we have pleasure in announcing the finalists for each category as follows:Overall Winner Finalists:CMS Made SimpleDrupale107Joomla!PHP-FusionMost Promising Finalists:dotCMSMODxNuke EvolutionSilverStripeTYPOLightBest PHP Open Source CMS:CMS Made SimpleDrupale107Joomla!PHP FusionBest Other Open Source CMS:mojoPortalOpenEditOpenCmsPloneSilvaBest Open Source Social Networking CMS:DrupalElggLifeTypeMoodleWordPressClick on a CMS to make your vote. Voting closes on October 26. We will be selecting three names at random from the list of people who voted, who will go on to win an iPod Nano! Submit your vote today for a chance to win.(leer ms...)Fuente: [ ]
Here comes good news for iPhone lover's outside USA, the so called iPhone Dev Team has released a open source fully-automatic utility named "anySim" to unlock the iPhone ready to be used on any network with all features.
This software needs to be copied over to the phone and executed, it's fully automatic, the whole process takes around 3-5 minutes :D.
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This US Army / Marine Corps 281 page Counterinsurgency Field Manual was first released in 2006, and after due deliberation, the military decided to make it open source!
Danger Room has the details.
Part of the rationale for making [the manual] available was the desire to establish an on-going dialog with the American people about the [...]
Can open source succeed where Windows and the Mac have failed? I?m talking here of K-12 education. An eSchools report says open source spending is growing 70% per year, and will be up 800% in 2011...
The Second Life Grid1) Los programas:Linden Lab provides programs to support the development of content on the Second Life Grid and to better enable businesses to bring their community onto the Second Life Grid. Education and Non-Profit Program - provides services to support the use of the Second Life Grid for education and non-profit use.Global Provider Program - provides support and services for those localizing Second Life to bring a community using a specific language onto the Second Life Grid.Open Source Program - provides resources to developers working on Linden Labs open source products.Solution Provider Program - provides services including directory listing to individuals or companies, which create content and presence on the Second Life Grid for others.API Program - provides APIs that enable services using the Second Life G2) Qu es?The Second Life Grid is a full-featured service platform of revolutionary technologies that support the globally renowned virtual wor
Issue 6 of o3 magazine is now available. o3 is an open source magazine with a focus on the enterprise. This issue looks at deploying Global Load Balancing with Open Source solutions, Deploying Production Rails Applications, PostgreSQL, Thin WiFi Access Points, Simple Appliance Stacks with Linux From Scratch, Building Secure Global Networks and more
The projects objective is to develop a toolkit on "Learning the Open Source Way". The toolkit is aimed at students and educators who are interested in the open source approach and what it can tell us about learning. The toolkit should assist others who want to create or adapt their educational courses using the principles found in FLOSS communities. It is aimed at providing
The projects objective is to develop a toolkit on "Learning the Open Source Way". The toolkit is aimed at students and educators who are interested in the open source approach and what it can tell us about learning. The toolkit should assist others who want to create or adapt their educational courses using the principles found in FLOSS communities. It is aimed at providing information about learning in an open source manner. To start developing the Learning the Open Source Way toolkit we will carry out an open and free Virtual and On-campus Summer University. The summer university is a 12 week open access session starting at July 3rd. This "Learning the Open Source Way" project is initiated as part of the EU funded FLOSSCom project and the Virtual and On-campus Summer University is carried out in collaboration with Ubuntu Education. The FLOSSCom project focuses on identifying the factors that contribute to successful knowledge construction in
For all of you who suffer from lack of desktop effects or compositioning! Send an email to jon.carvill@amd.com and tell him what a bad experience ATi is compared to nVidia. We’re doing him a favor. Or else, we stop buying ATi. All of Nvidia’s cards are supported under Linux. In fact, the 7800GS was supported by Linux before the official driver.
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I asked exactly 2 months ago this question:
When was the last time you helped to make open source software better ?
So, what did you do since then ?
I have decided to e.g. help these projects primarily in my free time:
ClamWin -
a free antivirus tool (with support from ClamAV)
Pardus -
a Linux distribution (includes many things, [...]
Link:for this Post: WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown.
I use Typepad so the launch of an open source version of Movable Type, the software that powers us Typepad blogs is exciting.
Scott Karp says that with with Version 4.0 of Movable Type:
Movable Type is now trying to leapfrog past WordPress by introducing community features that give blog readers the ability to create social network profiles and post content. Its interesting to note that this feature is competitive in some respects to Plucks SiteLife, KickApps, and a number of other community feature platforms, although it seems to me that the potential value is limited to sites that work entirely on Movable Type, i.e. not apparently useful for sites that use other content management systems, as almost all large media and corporate sites do.
I had a lot of fun with this post. I have been looking for a community solution for my website Island Web and so have checked out a number of sol
Are you a person who uses open source software ?
Do you like it ?
Did you spend until now time to make it better ?
For the first question your answer might be: yes
If the answer for the second is also yes, I would be interested in the third answer.
With this posting I do not want [...]
Dare Obasanjo's post about the issue of Open Data (or Open Data Access), indicates that the "Open Data" issue is gradually beginning to resonate across a broader audience.
From my perspective on things I prefer to align my articulation of the changes that are occurring across our industry (courtesy of the Internet Inflection) to the MVC pattern.
Re. the Web Versions (or Dimensions of Interaction):
Web 1.0 - (V)iewer (Interactive Web experienced via Browser)
Web 2.0 - (C)ontroller Web (via Web Services API)
Web 3.0 - (M)odel (via the RDF Data Model as the basis for an Open and Standards based Concrete Conceptual Data Model)
The same applies to evolution of Openness:
Early work by Sun and other early UNIX Vendors - (V)iewer (Interaction with the same OS across different hardware platforms)
Open Source Movement - (C)ontroller (Open Access to Application Source Code )
Open Data - (M)odel (*where we are now* Freeing the Date from the Applications and Services while mo
Free legal software is everywhere today due to the open source revolution. Thousands of developers from around the world are constantly building software in the ...
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