Posts Tagged ‘ F/OSS ’

Walking in someone else’s shoes

Just discovered Shoes, the lightweight GUI toolkit writte by why the lucky stiff. Unfortunately, I seem to have a very old version of it included in Debian Lenny and it doesn’t seem as if the one in Sid is any newer. Oh well, that didn’t stop me from writing a little app which, in addition [ READ MORE ]

Could Jaiku + Laconica = Twitter killer?

With the recent buzz about identi.ca and Google’s Jaiku becoming open source, could the two projects learn from one another and produce something even better? It seems that identi.ca’s underlying software, Laconica, runs on the LAMP stack while Jaiku will be released for AppEngine. It will be interesting to see how the OpenMicroBlogging folks take [ READ MORE ]

Finally, Debian Lenny to be released as stable!

Question: Can I have stable Lenny yet? Answer: Yes. Yes, I can. Saw this article (hat tip to Mukidohime)which pointed me to this email telling me that the kernel firmware resolution was finally voted on and Debian Lenny is now free to be released! It’s a good thing and I’m very excited for the goodies [ READ MORE ]

(= osalt.com coolness) #=> T

Great site which can help you find Free/Open Source Software alternatives for proprietary applications across the board. Check it out at osalt.com and poke about. Thanks to the site, I can now hook my windows-using acquaintances (yes, I do speak to them) up with Winpooch and InfraRecorder which are two apps I didn’t even know [ READ MORE ]

The W3C has been busy: web gems of the future

After reading a very cool post on InfoQ about current issues with asynchronous communication between browser and server, I looked into the HTML 5 WebSockets specification and it’s really very cool! Yes, people seem to be getting most excited about offline web-apps,  client-side structured storage in HTML 5, but a bi-directional socket between client and [ READ MORE ]

Thank you to JOPP!

I just got back from a workshop run by the JOPP. What a blast! I was really honored with the chance to give a talk to a fantastic crowd with good questions. Thank you to all the fine folks over at JOPP and all the people who showed up to listen to me rant about [ READ MORE ]

Git really is that good

I confess I’ve been a Subversion fan for ages but I was actually told to try out git a while ago and was finally convinced by the fact that it’s distributed so I can manage things when I’m not connected to the network. I’ve started by using it to maintain my org-mode files (which are [ READ MORE ]

Kernel-level VM for languages?

I don’t know if this is a good idea or not, but it does make me wonder. There are all of these excellent virtual machine projects and architectures out there but they are mostly in userspace. The few that aren’t are geared specifically towards virtualizing operating systems. It occured to me that something useful might [ READ MORE ]

Org-Mode has changed my life!

As I move more and more of my life into Emacs, the best editor ever to grace God’s silicon earth, I discover new jewels of computing elegance and productivity. One of the most recent additions to my arsenal is org-mode, the most fantastic tool for keeping my life in order. Initially, I was excited because [ READ MORE ]

A very good thing: Theora 1.0

Caught wind, via OSNews, that Ogg Theora has finally gone 1.0! Who’s pumped for wider adoption of a free video codec that’s actually really good? Now, if only there could be some decent encoders? I’m not sure about the status of ffmpeg2theora or others&#[ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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