Why Developers Are Switching To Macs (Tuesday 18th of November 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Snydeq writes "Programmers are finding themselves increasingly drawn to the Mac as a evolvement
platform, in large part due to Apple's decision to move to Intel chips and to embrace
virtualization of other OSes, which has turned Mac OS X into a flexible ...
(more)Is It Good For Business To Subsidize OSS Developers? (Saturday 30th of August 2008 06:00:01 PM)
Ruphus13 writes "A lot of developers for open source systems program have full-time day jobs
too. As economist Milton Friedman said, 'The line of vocation is business.' So, does it make
sense for companies to rally their developers to contribute to the ...
(more)Software Quality In a Non-Software Company? (Tuesday 26th of August 2008 02:30:01 PM)
Nicros writes "I work for a publicly traded biotech company that happens to write ms-dos that
is, in fact, kind of critical for the work — without it no data would ever be read from
our instruments, and no analyses would be performed on that ...
(more)Flagship Studios' Founder Discusses Its Demise (Wednesday 20th of August 2008 04:00:01 AM)
1Up is running a lengthy parley with Bill Roper, founder of Flagship Studios. The game company,
known principally for its Hellgate: London and Mythos titles, announced massive layoffs last
month, and is now simply winding down and taking care of a few ...
(more)Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday (Friday 13th of June 2008 03:10:22 AM)
Unkgoon writes "The Mozilla creator News blog is reporting Firefox 3 will be released on
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, and you're invited to the party! From the website: 'After more than 34
months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, ...
(more)Red Hat to Coax Code Contributions From Companies (Thursday 27th of March 2008 07:15:03 AM)
Stony Stevenson writes "New Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has hit out at enterprises, bemoaning
that billions of dollars are wasted each year because 95% of companies won't share code.
speechification at the Open Source Business rap in San Francisco, he ...
(more)WiiWare Week Round Up (Saturday 15th of March 2008 04:30:04 PM)
Mark Graham writes "All this week, UK games development site Develop has been running a series
of fittings under its 'WiiWare Week' banner, analyzing developer's affections for, and the
possible success of Nintendo's upcoming WiiWare digital distribution ...
(more)Microsoft to Give Away Developer Tools to Students (Wednesday 20th of February 2008 06:30:04 AM)
Beuges writes "The customer's broker Press is reporting that Microsoft will make full versions
of their development tools available to students. "The Redmond-based systems program maker said
late Monday it will let students initialize Visual Studio Professional ...
(more)IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test (Thursday 20th of December 2007 12:30:07 PM)
Notamicrosoftlover writes to tell us Channel9 is news that number cruncher* network Explorer 8
has correctly rendered the Acid2 page in "standards mode". "With respect to a must and
interoperability, our goal in third world country world wide web Explorer ...
(more)SixApart Sells LiveJournal to Russian Media Company (Monday 03rd of December 2007 08:45:03 PM)
Molrak writes "SixApart tonight announced the sale of journal/blogging service Livejournal to
Russia-based SUP. Original LJ founder Brad Fitzpatrick has chimed in on the situation: 'This is
pretty cool because - They're ridiculously excited about LiveJournal, ...
(more)Mead Johnson, IU School Of Medicine Center To Focus On Infant Nutrition And Immune System Research (Saturday 17th of November 2007 06:00:00 PM)
Mead Johnson Nutritionals and Indiana health center School of dose make known the development
of a Center for Nutrition and Immunity that will focus on fact-finding related to infant
nutrition and immune system development. The Center will be located ...
(more)Eclipse Makes Java Development on the Mac Easier (Sunday 23rd of September 2007 10:00:03 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "While the Java development jungle* is fully integrated into Mac OS
X, the Eclipse developer IDE brings a fully integrated Java development ambiance to Mac OS X
that provides a more consistent and easier to develop cross-platform ...
(more)Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora (Wednesday 05th of September 2007 11:15:01 PM)
Stony Stevenson writes to mention that the Mozilla underpinning has quietly released the first
beta version of the revised Eudora email application. This is the first development Eudora has
seen since Qualcomm stopped development and turned it over to ...
(more)Antony Mitchell Joins Imperial Finance & Trading, LLC as Chief Executive Officer (Wednesday 22nd of August 2007 04:30:03 AM)
Imperial Finance & Trading, LLC is pleased to welcome Antony Mitchell as Chief Executive
Officer. Mitchell will oversee the company's growth and development, aggressively pursuing all
avenues of business development. He has already formed partnerships ...
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