Here are some of the fake O'Reilly book covers I mentioned in a
prior post. These have been optimized for use as black
& white Kindle screensaver wallpaper images. If you
haven't done so already, you can install a Kindle screensaver hack with a couple of
downloads.
Update: I've embedded a slideshow from PicasaWeb, but it requires Flash. If you don't see it you can click on the links below to go directly to PicasaWeb.
Rapid7 secures new funding. Microsoft drops Dryad. And more.
# Rapid7 secured $50m in series C funding.
# Microsoft confirmed that it is ditching its Dryad project in favour of Apache Hadoop.
# Arun Murthy provided more details of Apache Hadop 0.23.
# The Google Plugin for Eclipse and GWT Designer projects are now fully open source.
# openSUSE released version 12.1.
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David Cornelson of TextFyre has embarked on an ambitious plan to
create a new open source virtual machine, FyreVM. This new
VM will run Interactive Fiction games (e.g. Zork and newer works written in Inform) on a dozen
different mobile platforms such as Android, WinPhone 7, Kindle,
iPhone, iPad, Blackberry. The goal of FireVM is to take
advantage of specific user interface capabilities on each
platform, whether it's the touch screen of Android tablets or the
5 way button on the Kindle.
To help with this project, TextFyre has started a fundraising effort on Kickstarter with a goal of …
[Read more]When we first started selling O'Reilly ebooks on Kindle, the limitations of the device prevented us from including our full catalog of ebooks. The first generation Kindle wasn't able to display tables or computer code -- two classes of content that are obviously quite common in O'Reilly books.
Although we (and our authors!) had hoped that Amazon would update the software on those Kindles (especially since many O'Reilly readers are also typically early adopters of new devices and technologies), it's clear that Amazon is focusing their efforts on their newer devices and apps for other mobile devices like iPad and Android.
Amazon won't disclose any data about how many customers use specific Kindle devices or apps, but we believe the number of Kindle 1 users is a small and shrinking part of the overall Kindle user base, and since there are multiple additional apps and desktop readers from Amazon, with a few specific exceptions …
[Read more]There has been no shortage of lively discussion on open source software licenses with recent shifts in the top licenses, perspectives on the licenses or lack of them for networked, SaaS and cloud-based software, increased prominence of a Microsoft open source license and concern over the openness (or closedness, depending on your perspedtive) of the latest devices. Amid all of it, we’re pleased to present our latest long-form report, CAOS 12 - The Myth of Open Source …
[Read more]Red Hat betas Enterprise Virtualization, partners with HP for SOA. And more.
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“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have
to.”
# Red Hat announced that its Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of products is now available for beta testing.
# Red Hat collaborated with HP on SOA.
# David Megginson published mixing GPL and non-GPL: a different perspective. A new take on the MySQL/MariaDB storage engine debate.
# UK Government CIO shed some light on “G-Cloud” plans and how the new open source policy provides an opportunity.
# WAZI: …
[Read more]JavaOne wrapped up on Friday. We hosted individuals from across the globe, and from every industry: consumer electronics and gaming, to enterprise IT, space exploration, factory automation, the automotive industry, academia - like the network itself, Java delivers something for nearly everyone, everywhere.
This year's biggest announcements centered around Java's role in the future of rich internet applications (or RIA's). What's a rich internet application? It depends on your perspective - from mine, it's any network connected application that persists in front of a user, typically outside a browser, that can operate when disconnected from the network.
On the one hand, I'd claim Java's always been a RIA platform - before the world really wanted one. Early Java applets delivered interactivity, but at the expense of development complexity and, in the early days, performance - when a browser, and more recently Javascript, would …
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