CS enrollment grows, the vocabulary of technology is translated in courtrooms, and dancing algorithms.
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh | 13 April 2011
In the latest Developer Week in Review: Computer science enrollment grows, lawyers and judges get crash courses in software vocabulary, and sorting algorithms are explained through dance.
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Cloud Foundry is aggressively open middleware, offering a flexible way to administer applications.
by Andy Oram
| @praxagora | 12 April 2011
By now, the popular APIs for IaaS have been satisfactorily emulated so that you can move your application fairly easily from one vendor to another. But until now, the PaaS situation was much more closed.
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A look at Symbian's on-again, off-again history with open source.
by Bruce Stewart
| @bruce_stewart | 11 April 2011
Symbian, once Nokia's flagship smartphone OS, has had a rocky road recently. It looks like its on-again/off-again open source saga is finally coming to a closed ending.
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Open Compute could be a big step forward for infrastructure, ops, and the web.
by Jesse Robbins
| @jesserobbins | 7 April 2011
Jesse Robbins says Facebook's Open Compute Project represents a giant step for open source hardware, for the evolution of the web and cloud computing, and for infrastructure and operations in general.
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The first NASA Open Source Summit highlighted policy and progress.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 7 April 2011
NASA's commitment to open source and its gameplan for open government were discussed at the recent NASA Open Source Summit. Here's a look at the open source issues and opportunities the agency faces.
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A data task illustrates the importance of simple and flexible tools.
by Mike Loukides
| @mikeloukides | 7 April 2011
While we have an extraordinary wealth of power data tools at our disposal, we'll be the
poorer if we forget the basics. Here's an example of how simple data tools can be put to use.
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