OSCON reminds us to open up (again).
by Sarah Novotny
| @sarahnovotny
| +Sarah Novotny | 8 August 2011
The c-chair of OSCON reflects on the big ideas that I was hearing from the conference, as the open source community continues on its journey "from disruption to default".
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Flurry's Sean Byrnes on the challenges of mobile analytics.
by Bruce Stewart
| @bruce_stewart
| +Bruce Stewart | 8 August 2011
Flurry's Sean Byrnes talks about the intricacies of mobile analytics, the metrics app developers care about most, and the problems that stem from Android fragmentation.
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MySQL is missing from Lion Server, and Apple gets a slap on the wrist from South Korea.
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh
| 3 August 2011
A pre-installed version of MySQL is noticeably absent from Lion Server, South Korea penalizes Apple for the location brouhaha, and Java 7's compiler injects a bit of randomness into software development.
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What's the source for Google's Official List of Bad Words?
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| 1 August 2011
Google's Official List of Bad Words (NSFW, duh) caught my eye, not least because I consider myself a student of obscenity.
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When information has structure we can use it to see change more clearly.
by Jon Udell
| @judell
| 28 July 2011
Think about the records that describe the status of your health, finances, insurance policies, vehicles, and computers. If the systems that manage these records could produce timestamped JSON snapshots when indicators change, it would be much easier to find out what changed, and when.
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The Linux kernel gets to 3.0, Oracle is bitten by the Internet's long memory, and more lawsuit fever.
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh
| 28 July 2011
The Linux kernel gets to version 3.0. Meanwhile, Oracle doesn't seem to remember the warm reception that Sun gave Android, and big players get lawsuits on their doorsteps.
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