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Articles on the software industry, offshore outsourcing, open source, ...etc.

Oracle buys BEA

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Almost 2 years after RedHat bought JBoss, Oracle has snapped up BEA for a hefty $8.5 Billion.

OLPC received well in a remote Peru village of Arahuay

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The OLPC has started deployment to schools in some countries.

The way the students interact with it, learn how to use it, and interact to each other is already amazing. There are stories of school drop outs coming back to school for the sake of the laptop, aggressive kids who become experts in the OLPC, and help others out using it, and more.

XO One Laptop Per Child reviewed by 9 and 12 year old kids

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Two recent reviews of the XO One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) are very interesting. The first is by a 12 year old, and the other is by a 9 year old.

Windows Vista performance slow for you? Here is how to make it faster

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I don't use Windows myself, let alone Vista, since I am an open source advocate, and have no need nor desire for Windows.

That being said, I had a brief encounter with Vista. I bought a laptop, which as all of today's computers, comes with Microsoft Windows Vista. As I always do, I reformatted the drive and loaded Kubuntu on it.

Asia/Pacific chooses open source because of security

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IDC has a report titled “The Momentum of Open Source: Adoption Plans and Challenges in Australia, Korea, India and the People’s Republic of China”.

As you can see from this blog post summary, security factors in very high on the list of criteria. "Budget constraints" and "better management tools and utilities" are next.

Help document Drupal and Open Source around the world: Support Noel Hidalgo

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Drupaller Noel Hidalgo is traveling the world in seven months, on a budget of $7,777.

The purpose of the trip is documenting Drupal, Open Source, free cultures, social innovators, and global change, as well as many other aspects of his experience.

Check the web site, aptly named Luck of Seven.

Noel met Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert, In Antwerp, and interviewed him.

The Mythical Man Month: Dilbert style

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The Dilbert cartoon strip has a very funny, yet telling one today.

Pointy Haired Bossess (PHBs) often treat number of sheep in a herd like number of programmers on a team. So, for a project that requires 300 man days, the PHB hires 300 people to finish the project in one day!

Hint: See The Mythical Man Month for more details.

Also see it in the archives.

Notes on my Drupal presentation in Cairo, Egypt

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As I noted earlier, Open Craft knew that I was in Egypt, and invited me to give a Drupal presentation. I chose Drupal performance tuning and optimization, and userpoints as the topic.

#1 Excuse for Programmers slacking off

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This is one is via XKCD.

Too bad this is no longer applicable to scripted/interpreted languages like PHP, Python and Ruby ...

Support the move to PHP5

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The bulk of web hosts are still on PHP4, despite PHP5 being out for years. PHP5, and specially PHP5.2, offers a lot of features that make developing in PHP far better than being held back with PHP4's feature set.

So, a bunch of activists in the Drupal community started talking to other PHP based applications to say enough is enough, and push for more adoption of PHP 5.2 by web hosts and projects alike.

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