Being a backend programmer, I rarely code in JavaScript. Today I
code a lot of cross browser JavaScript with the fantastic lib
jquery and its various extensions. Front end programming is hard
to get correct since IE sucks but that's another Blog post that
is out of scope. I certainly have more of an appreciation for the
people that focus in this area. I can finally say I am really
well rounded in doing CSS, JavaScript, Server tuning, DBA, PHP, C
etc since I work the entire stack. Now for the setup and
disclaimer. This post is not meant to provide a How-To but to
explain the approach. If you would like a How To let me know on
what.
With Node.js the gap between the discipline of Front-End
programming and Backend Programming is narrowing. To code in Node
you need to know JavaScript. Node is great at handing off data
and pumping data to the requester in an event based model that is
fantastically fast and small. I love node, …
Topics for this podcast:
*The latest in VC funding for open source
*VMware’s SpringSource buys cloud messenger Rabbit
*Open source monitoring vendors’ key cloud partnershps
*Oracle moves ahead, back on MySQL, OpenSolaris
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Elliot offers $2bn for Novell. OSI refutes IIPA’s view on open source. And more.
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“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have
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# Novell confirmed a $2bn purchase offer from Elliot Associates. Interesting perspectives on Elliot’s offer for Novell from Linuxquestions, Andy Updegrove, and Matt Asay.
# The OSI categorically rejected the …
[Read more]Winning and losing with open source. Paranoid Android. And more.
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Winning and losing
Matt Asay stirred things up with his declaration that free
software has lost and open source has won. Responding to Matt
Asay, Glyn Moody argued that without free software, open source
would lose its meaning, while Mark Stone explained that free
versus open source is not black and white - it’s more complex
than that.
Matt Asay later declared open source …
[Read more]Cloudera debuts Hadoop support with $5m in funding. The financial value of open source. More patent problems for Red Hat. Government open source projects on both sides of the pond. Symbian’s release plan. And more.
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Cloudera makes it official
We previously reported the launch of Cloudera a new vendor
set up to provide support for Apache Hadoop and related projects
back in October. The company made its official debut in not-so
polite open source society with the launch of its distribution
for Hadoop and …
Actuate and Black Duck report on third quarter performance. Red Hat welcomes Microsoft to AMQP. Canonial launches Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition. How to pronounce my surname. And more.
Press releases
Actuate Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial
Results
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Black Duck Software Continues Phenomenal Growth in Q3 Black Duck
Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition enables mobile, flexible computing for a changing digital world Canonical
Microsoft Joins Working Group for Open Standards Messaging Software Microsoft
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