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OSDC 2005 Wrap Up
Tuesday, 20 Feb, 2007 – 23:03 | No Comment

The second Open Source Developer’s Conference, held in Melbourne this week, can be most simply described as a massive geek-fest. It’s probably unfair to compare it to the Web Essentials conference that I attended …

Software Freedom Day September 10
Tuesday, 20 Feb, 2007 – 23:03 | No Comment

Software Freedom Day is this Saturday, with events around the globe. The event hopes to promote the value to be found in the use of open source and free software. Some press …

OSCON 2006: TimeTravel Tables in PostgreSQL
Tuesday, 20 Feb, 2007 – 23:03 | No Comment

A. Elein Mustain is a veteran developer of Ingres, Illustra, and Informix, and is the author of the weekly PostgreSQL General Bits column. Elein showed how to use timestamps to keep an audit …

Open Source Image Archiving: Exif, IPTC, XMP and all that
Tuesday, 20 Feb, 2007 – 23:03 | No Comment

Related to this hack started taking a serious look at the available standards and Open Source tools for adding meta data to images, in the context of building archives of digital photography. With further …

One Year and 100 Million Downloads Later, Firefox
Tuesday, 20 Feb, 2007 – 23:03 | No Comment

SpreadFirefox.com have a gallery of screenshots up to celebrate Firefox’s first birthday. In its first year of official release it has enjoyed more than 100 million downloads (check out the celebratory photo gallery) …

Open Source Image Archiving: Exif, IPTC, XMP and all that
Monday, 19 Feb, 2007 – 22:55 | No Comment

Related to this hack started taking a serious look at the available standards and Open Source tools for adding meta data to images, in the context of building archives of digital photography. With further …

Things to Do With Firefox 1.5
Monday, 19 Feb, 2007 – 22:55 | No Comment

Firefox 1.5 is here, and available for all to download and use. Many of you no doubt have tried out the Beta and Release Candidate builds. Here’s a list of things to …

Software Freedom Day September 10
Monday, 19 Feb, 2007 – 22:55 | No Comment

Software Freedom Day is this Saturday, with events around the globe. The event hopes to promote the value to be found in the use of open source and free software. Some press …

MySQL 5.0 stable release
Monday, 19 Feb, 2007 – 22:55 | No Comment

MySQL 5 is out. This stable release is now recommended for production use, so if your installation of MySQL 4.1 is getting dusty (or worse yet, if you’re still on 4.0), now might be the …

MySQL 5.0 stable release
Monday, 19 Feb, 2007 – 22:54 | No Comment

MySQL 5 is out. This stable release is now recommended for production use, so if your installation of MySQL 4.1 is getting dusty (or worse yet, if you’re still on 4.0), now might be the …

Things to Do With Firefox 1.5
Sunday, 18 Feb, 2007 – 22:54 | No Comment

Firefox 1.5 is here, and available for all to download and use. Many of you no doubt have tried out the Beta and Release Candidate builds. Here’s a list of things to …

OSCON 2006: TimeTravel Tables in PostgreSQL
Sunday, 18 Feb, 2007 – 22:54 | No Comment

A. Elein Mustain is a veteran developer of Ingres, Illustra, and Informix, and is the author of the weekly PostgreSQL General Bits column. Elein showed how to use timestamps to keep an audit trail …

Open Source Image Archiving: Exif, IPTC, XMP and all that
Sunday, 18 Feb, 2007 – 22:54 | No Comment

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SpreadFirefox.com have a gallery of screenshots up to celebrate Firefox’s first birthday. In its first year of official release it has enjoyed more than 100 million downloads (check out the celebratory photo gallery) and …

OSDC 2005 Wrap Up
Sunday, 18 Feb, 2007 – 22:54 | No Comment

The second Open Source Developer’s Conference, held in Melbourne this week, can be most simply described as a massive geek-fest. It’s probably unfair to compare it to the Web Essentials conference that I attended …

OSCON 2006: Big Bad PostgreSQL
Sunday, 18 Feb, 2007 – 22:54 | No Comment

Theo Schlossnagle is a principal at OmniTI Computer Consulting, working in the areas of scalable internet architectures, database replication, and e-mail infrastructure. This talk was on converting a really large (over 3 terabytes, largest …

OSDC 2005 Wrap Up
Saturday, 17 Feb, 2007 – 3:58 | One Comment

The second Open Source Developer’s Conference, held in Melbourne this week, can be most simply described as a massive geek-fest. It’s probably unfair to compare it to the Web Essentials conference that I attended …

Track Your Hacks with CVS
Saturday, 17 Feb, 2007 – 3:58 | No Comment

The following is republished from the Tech Times #130. Quite by coincidence, three times in the past week I have had to hack the code of some open source software that went into the …

OSDC 2005 Wrap Up
Saturday, 17 Feb, 2007 – 3:58 | No Comment

The second Open Source Developer’s Conference, held in Melbourne this week, can be most simply described as a massive geek-fest. It’s probably unfair to compare it to the Web Essentials conference that I …