The current economic situation has somehow affected all of us one way or another, myself included (in a way).
So what’s a developer got to do on the lean months?
Accepting odd programming jobs for friends is one way to keep the old noggin active. Learning new skillsets is another thing that you can do as [...]

Here’s something that you don’t see anyday:

This will definitely make the news!
Interestingly, The embedded videos which still ran properly, a while ago, now do crash (flash app is still loading though):

Arora is a Qt browser that uses webkit (rendering engine used in google chrome and safari) as it’s html engine. It’s small, and fast too.
The current version of the windows build of arora (0.10.0) is not the latest version.
Presenting the windows build of arora 0.10.2 – git build version as of march 24, 2010. [...]

Ok, ok… you might wonder, what’s a blog post about William Shatner making a social network doing here?
See the tag line of my site? “Open Source, Operating Systems, Offtopic Stuff!”. This definitely counts as “Offtopic Stuff!”. And I’m a big Star Trek fan – well, TOS and NG, as well as some [...]

Another one of those very very short posts. If you have moblin installed on your netbook, and want to develop rpms on it, you can type in this command:
sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”
It should install all tools necessary for basic Moblin development. Ciao.

Another short post.
I added some forums to my blog. Nothing much – if you have any questions, suggestions, or just want to talk away, feel free to do so.

Well, it’s a short post.
Since I was around the area and was more or less free during the time, I attended a short meeting with a local Linux Users Group at the G2iX Techbar, IT Park, Cebu City, of which I am a member.
There was basically a short talk on Liferay, an Open Source Portal, [...]

The OS which powers my E51 and E61i phone is now open sourced.
From the Symbian.org wiki site, the whole system platform is ready for download and development.
Amounting to about 25 million lines of code (38 million lines if you include the tools used to create the platform), Symbian now becomes one of the largest projects [...]

An interesting development happened during the release of the 2.6.33 linux kernel and generated some heated discussions on the lwn comments section. The android code in the linux kernel tree was deleted.
Why was it deleted? Greg Kroah-Hartman in his blog stated in a nutshell that:
In short, no one cared about the code, so it [...]

Think about it. You don’t hide things from people you don’t know because you did something bad. It is more likely that you hide things from people you are not likely to trust because they would like to do bad things to you.