How could I miss that? Markus Tressl, blogger and senior consultant at namics is leaving to join a startup. And the startup is “amazee“. Personally I wish Markus all the best. And of course good luck to Dania and her team. And you need to know, I am always looking for some insights and details […]
Continue ReadingNokia to buy Trolltech
I’ve just heard that Nokia is going to buy Trolltech, makers of the C++-Framework QT. Details of the deal here. This acquisition comes days after the Sun announcement of buying MySQL, the company behind the highly popular Open Source database. Both deals are of a big value for the Open Source community. Trolltech has issued […]
Continue ReadingFirst “Commercial” Creative Commons Licensed Music Album Released
This is big! Danish singer and songwriter Tone released the first music album under the Creative Commons License as well as a “CD to buy”. The Creative Commons blog posted about it two days ago and I had to download and listen to the album (it isn’t my type of music ;-), but it sure […]
Continue ReadingWhat Is The “Semantic Web” And Why We Need It!
This is just a quick introduction and I hope this is understandable for non-techs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg8A2zfWKg More Information Wikipedia Microformats Firefox Operator Add-On Video by Manu Sporny (Microformats, Blog) [via le blog à Ollie]
Continue ReadingWebsites Injected – Cool Little Tool
It happened. Many of my websites on a different server got injected tonight. On every “index.php”, “admin.php”, “config.php” were between 400KB and 1MB big. At the end of each of those files a large list with URLs was appended. And believe me, none of these links contained value. Before fixing all those files or try […]
Continue ReadingOpenExpo 2008 in Berne: Keynote by Alan Cox
The OpenExpo organisation team has just sent out the newsletter and latest information for this years OpenExpo in Berne (Location). Go ahead and mark the following dates in your agenda: March 12 and 13 2008. The program looks again very cool with talks about Open Source (+ Software), Linux, GPL3, Typo3, OpenMoko, Politics and many […]
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