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| Newsletter Archive 2008
Google Announces Its Plans To Launch 'Friend Connect'
In an effort to join the field of social network data portability, Google has announced its plans to launch 'Friend Connect'. This feature will enable website owners to grow traffic by taking profile information from social networking websites and putting that information onto third party websites.
Date: 2008-05-13
Participate In The Open Source Census
Just read about the launch of "The Open Source Census". This is the next step in OpenLogic's efforts to get a better sense of which OSS products are actually used in enterprises. Until now, the OSS product usage data we've seen has been from surveys of people who likely don't know the extent of OSS usage across their company.
Date: 2008-04-22
RIA Vendor Curl Shifts To Eclipse
Rich Internet Application (RIA) vendor Curl, named InfoWorld's 2008 Technology of the Year in the RIA category, announced that they will be rebasing the Curl IDE on Eclipse. The Eclipse-based product, named Curl Development Tools for Eclipse (CDE) is expected to Beta in mid-2008.
Date: 2008-04-08
Open Source BlueDragon
In a move that has surprised some folks, New Atlanta has announced plans to create a free open source version of their J2EE BlueDragon product. They will continue to develop, sell and support a commercial version of it, as well as continuing the .NET version and the standalone JX version (neither of which will be open sourced).
Date: 2008-03-11
BlackBerry Developer Tools - Smart Tools for Smart Developers
Developer tools you need to quickly and efficiently get your work done. These free downloads from Research in Motion will give you the edge you need to succeed.
Date: 2008-02-28
Rackspace: Let IT Hosting Change the Way You Work
No more stretching yourself thin trying to keep up with your endless IT to-do-list. That's the beauty of IT Hosting and Fanatical Support® from Rackspace. We become an extension of your IT department, hosting your servers and supporting them around the clock so they stay up and running. You don't even have to think about the servers, let alone do a thing to support them.
Date: 2008-02-21
A First Look At Grails
There's still a lot of buzz about Ruby on Rails and I've played around with it but I really don't like the Ruby syntax. I've tried a few different Rails packages and just find the experience... clunky. Lots of people are very excited about Rails and Ruby in general, especially with JRuby (Ruby for Java) now running Rails.
Date: 2008-02-13
Using CSS To Place Images
Yellow post it notes are cool and a really good way to get someone's attention, don't you think? I had in my disposal the transparent png solution for IE using CSS so all I needed was a cool graphic and a way to position it anywhere on a page using just CSS.
Date: 2008-01-15
Rackspace: Taking the next Green step in IT Hosting
Take the environmentally friendly components we already use—low voltage processors, plus energy efficient drives and RAM. Put them all together so our configurations will run even greener. And then make it simple for people to choose the green configuration or customize one that works for them. It's not revolutionary, but it's smarter and better for the world and our customers.
Date: 2008-01-10
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