"Halcyon is a interesting new Web app framework by Matt Todd, written in Ruby. What makes Halcyon interesting is that while it's very small and fast, as many of the Web app framework newcomers (such as Sinatra) are, its focus is entirely on using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for communications to and from the server..."

"The call came down from on high just before the Ruby 1.9 release: replace the standard csv.rb library with faster_csv.rb. With only hours to make the change it was a little harder than I expected. The FasterCSV code base was pretty vanilla Ruby, but it required more work than I would have guessed to get running on Ruby 1.9. Let me share a few of the tips I learned while doctoring the code in the hope that it will help others get their code ready for Ruby 1.9..."

The roadmap for hardy heron has a pretty big list of features, most of them, although very important, are technical and a bit uninteresting.

Six months into using the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, Kevin Anderson says its ready for advanced computer users, but not most mainstream users.

The history and legacy of the Church in the late 1990s and 2000s will be lost in 10 years because we will lack the software to open its’ data.

The newest Project of Mozilla labs was "Weave". It allows the user to save his browser settings on Mozilla servers (Favorites, sessions ,passwords...etc..) and be able to load it wherever he is.

I have been making posters for many events now. Making a foss poster is a simple task. If you are one of those persons who like to decorate your desktop then you have got the knack already. The poster usually have a standard A3 size. The main thing about the poster is it should have something to draw people. So the first you have to choose a background. Browse through flickr and find some photos that denotes freedom, sharing etc.

"I was invited to speak at XML 2007 last month. I was given the topic 'Does XML have a future on the web?' My answer was 'yes.' As evidence, I offered that there are still people selling Cobol compilers. Once this stuff gets into the enterprise, it can take generations to get rid of it..."