Suing your suppliers, tracking your customers, and giving away your assets.
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh | 22 April 2011
In the latest Developer Week in Review: Everyone sued everyone else, the iPhone's location abilities instigated lots of discussion, and Oracle let Open Office fly away home.
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While developing countries may benefit from Open Compute, bigger issues need to be addressed first.
by Jenn Webb
| @JennWebb | 21 April 2011
The potential for Open Compute to benefit developing countries was mentioned during a
panel discussion that followed the project's announcement. Intrigued, I turned to Benetech CEO Jim Fruchterman for more on Open Compute's utility in developing nations.
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The Open Data Protocol is a promising approach for uniform APIs.
by Jon Udell
| @judell | 20 April 2011
What if blogs had come of age in an era when a uniform kind of API was expected? We could then ask questions of blogs in the same way we could ask questions of event services.
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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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