After countless hours of evaluating, reading, reviewing and thinking about all the 41 submission to the 2010 Swiss Open Source Awards on September 1st the winner ceremony was held at the Kongresshaus in Zurich. The award was sponsored and organized by /ch/open, a Switzerland based group to promote and support Open Source in Switzerland. This […]
Continue ReadingAndroid Git gets Froyo
Update June 24th: Source code is now on source.android.com! Download and heck the hell out of it! Update May 24th: The full Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) source code is not yet in the git repository! It will take a couple more weeks before we see the full source code! Just did a `repo sync` and […]
Continue ReadingMyEasyPhotoGallery – Simple PHP Photo Gallery
I needed a quick and dirty PHP photo gallery. So what did I do? I hacked one together very quickly. That was in 2007. Today I have published that little piece of software to GitHub. You can download (ZIP or TAR) MyEasyPhotoGallery from GitHub and use it create a photo gallery in less than 3 […]
Continue ReadingHappy 5th Birthday Firefox
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the popular open source web browser Firefox. Happy Birthday, dear Firefox! A little bit history of Firefox versions can be found on Wikipedia.
Continue ReadingMicrosoft and Open Source
Microsoft Switzerland invited to a short presentation and discussion round with Hank Janssen from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) in Redmond. He talked a little bit about their infrastructure (which is impressive and awesome by the way), projects Microsoft has contributed to and why they do it. I made a few notes and […]
Continue ReadingSun Microsystems & Oracle – News and Questions
I’ve just received the newsletter from Sun Microsystems Switzerland regarding the acquisition/merger of Sun into Oracle. On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems. The proposed transaction is subject to Sun stockholder approval (JAVA), certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to […]
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