"After several days of being read-only the Gentoo Forums are back online after the upgrade to MySQL 5 and a full conversion to UTF-8..."

"...Most of these discussion threads belie complete misunderstanding of the Resource Oriented Architecture, which is very alarming, given that ROA is the native architecture of the web..."

"I’ve been poking around with CouchDb, like all the cool kids. It’s pretty clever; a database which isn’t relational, where the connection API is REST, and where queries are written in JavaScript and data is returned as JSON..."

Lots of people have a love/hate relationship with their touch pad on their laptops. It’s great for speeding around your screen and doing lots of cool things with nary a mouse in site. It’s horrible when you accidentally double-click that Quake 3 icon while your boss is strolling into the room.

"Is it a charitable thing for IBM to have 250 engineers working on Linux? Long term, we are getting a cheaper operating system than we can by building our own. It's self serving. We can't build a Linux class operating system all by ourselves with only 250 people."

Technical IT publishing company Packt, has published Learning Joomla! Extension Development, a book that helps create Joomla! 1.5 extensions with PHP. Written by professional Joomla! Extension Developer Joseph L. LeBlanc, this book gives programmers their first step in customizing and extending the features of Joomla! through custom PHP development.

Last Friday, I attended the Linux World China 2007 conference and exhibition held in the luxury Beijing International Hotel.

German embedded Linux provider Sysgo has appointed a new CEO as an initial step toward implementing an "aggressive global business expansion plan." Michael Tiedemann is an electronics engineer who served as Sysgo's sales manager for a decade.