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Beautiful projects deserve beautiful sites

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/8/2010
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. The old cliche is true, and it applies to the Web sites of FLOSS projects as surely as it does a first date or a job interview. Unfortunately, all too many FLOSS Web sites make a very, very poor first impression. Not surprising, since [...]
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Facebook Friends PHP: Introducing HipHop

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/3/2010
Are you a fan of PHP? Facebook is. The company has been working behind the scenes to create HipHop, a runtime compiler for PHP to improve the language's performance on Facebook's servers. The company is also friending the rest of the PHP community with its work by releasing its project as open source. Rumors have been [...]
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Release Early, Release Often, Adopt Slowly

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/30/2009
Things move pretty fast in the open source development world. A new kernel release comes out around every three months. Projects like GNOME, KDE, and PostgreSQL pop out releases every six months, as well as some major Linux distros. Open source development moves at a rapid and relentless pace. It's refreshing, then, to see an [...]
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/usr/bin/links -date='Tuesday, November 24'

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 11/24/2009
Some choice bits from around the Web about technology, politics, and community development. Using Python to create UNIX command line tools —  "If you work in IT, as a UNIX Sysadmin, a software developer, or even a manager, there a few skills that will set you apart from the crowd. Do you fully understand the OSI [...]
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