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OpenStack Diablo Open Source Cloud Platform Accelerates High-Availability - A serious Open Source PaaS / Cloud option lets you develop Cloud Based applications your way!
If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Joe, he's available on Twitter as @ MisfitGeek .
Rob Hawkes
Slideshare has finally ditched Flash for HTML5 . This is a great move by the main player in the slide-hosting scene. Still, I'm interested to see how …
Is W3C that bad ? I think it's great, and I think we should all appreciate the Open Source effort we can read, support, or comment, on daily basis as is for JavaScript future if you are tough enough to face people proud by default about their decisions ... they can understand, they can change their mind.
The direction ? Too much new stuff in too short time that could imply future problems when it comes to maintainability and backward compatibility, the day somebody will realize: " …
WebFWD is Mozilla's accelerator and incubator program for Open Innovation on the Web. It launched at the start of the summer, around the same time I joined Mozilla as a writer and wrangler of content, so I feel a personal stake in helping the program flourish and thrive.
In the lean and rapid style of development it advocates, WebFWD has been evolving and iterating since the moment it was announced: responding to feedback from Mozillians and the entrepreneurial community …
CAMDUG Summer of Open Source
Like an idiot I forgot to post this sooner (I've been snowed under by cool JavaScript links lately!) The CAMDUG Summer of Open Source is tomorrow (27th August) in Cambridge UK, and has a Node open day, with speakers and coding sessions. Oleg Podsechin will be speaking, and he also recently gave a talk entitled The Future of Server-Side JavaScript at FrOSCon .
SunCalc
SunCalc ( GitHub: …
Open Source Programmer's Text Editor using Canvas and WebGL
Open Source Programmer's Text Editor using Canvas and WebGL is a Kickstarter project started by Robey Holderith to create a browser-based open source text editor. Robey argues that using native browser features like tabs, and JavaScript for the macro language, would make a great portable text editor.
He cites netbooks as a target platform and mentions that this project is intended to be …
We're following the footsteps of many successful office hours from other Open Source projects ( Android, Mongo DB, Google App Engine, and Node.JS) because we think it's the best way to help, meet, and listen to our community.
In fact, without IRC I wouldn't have become a MooTools developer in the first place. Like many of the other MooTools developers. Maybe you will too.
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We're going to start with a single weekly meeting on Tuesday's at 5pm - 6pm …
…to me, along the lines of "come work on our transpiler with us", left a bad taste. I say: Open-source early, tell your TC39 colleagues your plans and intentions, invite others to join you. Don't seed the googlecode project with all-Google-employee committers, work for months in relative secrecy, and then go open.
This reminds me of how V8 was developed (I have a few saved emails from 2006... V8 released as open source with Chrome in 2008).
Again, it's Google…
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