Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? (Wednesday 26th of November 2008 04:00:01 PM)
Hi_caramba_2008 writes "We are a bunch of good friends at a large os company. The product we
work on is under-budgeted and over-hyped by the sales drones. The code quality sucks, and
ministry keeps pulling in third edition by the editors of the red white ...
(more)Programming .NET 3.5 (Tuesday 04th of November 2008 04:00:03 PM)
Lamaditx writes "The world of the .NET cage is taken to the next level by the release of .NET
3.5. The intended audition of this book are veteran .NET programmers. There are no sections
that tell you details about C#, SQL servers or any one ...
(more)Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source (Sunday 05th of October 2008 07:15:01 AM)
Mjasay writes "The catalog is reporting that Microsoft is hosting Windows-only projects on its
'open source project hosting site,' CodePlex. Miguel de Icaza caught and criticized Microsoft
for doing this with its Microsoft Extensibility shell (MEF), licensing ...
(more)Bitten By the Red Hat Perl Bug (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)
Snydeq writes "Smart coders always optimize the slowest thing. But what if 'the slowest thing'
is the code supplied by your vendor? That was exactly the where Vipul Ved Prakash discovered
when he tinkered with a company Linux box on which Perl code was ...
(more)The Return of Ada (Wednesday 16th of April 2008 11:40:19 AM)
Pickens writes "Today when most people refer to Ada it's usually as a cautionary tale. The
Defense commune commissioned the artificial intelligence speech in the late 1970s but few
programmers used Ada, claiming it was difficult to use. Nonetheless many ...
(more)Lawyer Banned for Threatening File-Sharers (Monday 07th of April 2008 02:45:02 AM)
S. Hare brings us a report from TorrentFreak about a lawyer working for a Swiss anti-piracy
group who was afresh given a 6-month ban for her attempts to intimidate file-sharers though
letters threatening fines and court fees. Elizabeth Martin universal ...
(more)Should IBM's SOM/DSOM Be Open Sourced? (Sunday 10th of February 2008 11:00:09 PM)
Esther Schindler sends a note about two journalists for very different publications (herself
one of them) urging IBM to open-source, not all of OS/2 — they've consistently refused to
do that — but instead one of its most powerful features: ...
(more)Android's "Non-Fragmentation Agreement" (Wednesday 14th of November 2007 01:30:15 AM)
Superglaze writes "The biggest doubt cast over Android (whose SDK was released yesterday) has
been the fact that much of it is licensed under Apache. There have been worries that
manufacturers might fork the code road in a non-interoperable kind of way. ...
(more)Breathalyzer Source Code Revealed (Tuesday 04th of September 2007 11:09:09 PM)
Nonillion writes "New Jersey attorney Evan M. Levow was finally able to get an order from the
Supreme Court of New Jersey forcing the manufacturer of the popular Draeger AlcoTest 7110 to
reveal the source code. Levow turned the code over to experts, Base ...
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