You might have missed the news just before the holidays that Microsoft has become slightly more open with respect to its networking protocols. Late last year, they announced a way for third parties to license their core file sharing protocols through an independent organization called the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation.

"...The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email..."

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on SQL (Structured Query Language). First released in January, 1998, MySQL is now one component of parent company MySQL AB’s product line of database servers and development tools.

A hacker’s just exposed a Mozilla Firefox security flaw - one that makes phishing far too easy and clueless Net users far too vulnerable.

"...For this project I’ve been looking into various frameworks for web application development, and I’ve come up with a combination I think works ok. To help others on their way, I’ve decided to create a small tutorial on how to create a blog with Hunchentoot, html-template and Elephant. This is just to introduce the frameworks and show how easy it can be..."

Ubuntu Live 2007 conference in Portland have been posted: http://ubuntulive.blip.tv/

"Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that 'on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested it.' [...] That means that as of February 4, 2008, it will (theoretically) be possible for two IPv6 hosts to communicate across the IPv6 Internet without having to rely on any IPv4 infrastructure. It's been a long journey to get to this point..."

Terracotta makes a Java clustering solution that it calls "drop-in" technology. Terracotta is unique, says Amit Pandey, chief executive officer, because it makes a way to offload temporary but important information that has traditionally been stored in expensive databases.