Interview with Anthony Minessale, the Creator of FreeSWITCH
oreillynet.com — "Anthony Minessale is the creator and lead developer behind the FreeSWITCH open source telephony project. When it comes to open source phone systems, Asterisk is by far the dominant player, but it isn't the only kid on the team and FreeSWITCH is considered by many to be one of the up and comers." (Submitted by vroom101) More...
7 Reasons I Switched Back to PHP After 2 Years on Rails
oreillynet.com — "Back in January 2005, I announced on the O’Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD Baby (cdbaby.com) website, and rewrite the entire thing in Rails, from scratch." Great article. (Submitted by Steaminx) More...
Perl is Dead. Long live Perl.
oreillynet.com — "Let’s say for a second that Perl actually was dying. Even if that were true, it would be a slow death over years to come. The reason? Businesses have billions of dollars invested in mission critical applications written in Perl that can not be easily replaced." (Submitted by foobarf00) More...
Top 7 Things System Administrators Forget to Do
oreillynet.com — Out of the plethora of chores that we do each day, which ones make up the top seven activities of forgetful system administrators? To begin, you might ask yourselves if the answer is quantitative or qualitative. Let's think about it for a minute. (Submitted by inactive) More...
Dear Mr. Shuttleworth, Get into the hardware business
oreillynet.com — Jeremiah Foster urges Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical (company behind Ubuntu) to get involved in the business of pre-installing GNU/Linux on computers hence getting rid of the "need to install" as one of the biggest remaining obstacles to increased adoption. (Submitted by libervisco) More...
Performing Brain Surgery On Yourself
oreillynet.com — Some years ago Linux creator Linux Torvalds famously compared changing operating systems to “performing brain surgery on yourself”. I’ve quoted him often because so many people seem to have unrealistic expectations when they pick up a Linux DVD or CD-ROM. (Submitted by inactive) More...
The Real First Apple Phone
oreillynet.com — The first Apple Phone with a date patent listed as December 10, 1985 (more than a quarter of a century old) and filed in 1982. You’ll note in the diagram reproduced below that unlike the Apple iPhone introduced in 2007, the 1985 version was a flip-phone :-) (Submitted by khaled) More...
Microsoft hires standards expert to work on Wikipedia entry on ODF/OOXML
oreillynet.com — From Rick Jelliffe's Blog: "So I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days ago from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone independent but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more balance on Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML." (Submitted by raghos) More...
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