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Rapid - Press Releases - EUROPA
"The European Commission can confirm that it has sent a Statement of Objections (SO) to Microsoft on 15th January 2009. The SO outlines the Commission’s preliminary view that Microsoft’s tying of its web browser Internet Explorer to its dominant client PC operating system Windows infringes the EC Treaty rules on abuse of a dominant position (Article 82)."
Jaiku Founder: “We’re Not Dying, We’re Morphing”
"Soon, anyone, for free and with little effort, will be able to install and modify the Jaiku code, launch it on App Engine, and run their own microblogging platform. Combine that decentralization with standards such as OAuth and the forthcoming activity stream standards, and what we’re seeing here is the accelerating trend away from microblogging being a destination to microblogging being a pervasive and ubiquitous part of the fabric of the web itself."
Help! Your train of thought is sacred.
"Asking someone to think about their software and their work at the same time is like asking someone to press two ten-feet-apart buttons at the same time."
Nintendo Wii and DS break US sales record for 2008
Congrats to Nintendo. Coming from behind here is an immense achievement. Having the foresight to think of the way we interact with a console vs. the horsepower..... wow. This will happen again many times in the next few years. New input devices are coming.
BitTorrent For HTTP Failover
"There is a proposal circulating around the web to create a X-Torrent HTTP header for the purpose of pointing to a torrent file as an alternative way to download a file from an overloaded server. I’ve been an advocate of implementing BitTorrent in browsers in particular Firefox since at least 2004 according to this blog, and like the idea in principal but don’t like the implementation proposed."
Canvas3D js lib C3DL
"Cathy’s team has just released their Canvas3D js lib C3DL version 0.6. The library is starting to be capable of doing some cool things (Collada support, picking, particle system, textures, etc.), and has attracted a number of external contributors (ya open source research!). Ted wrote a cool panorama image demo using it, too. If you’re interested in 3D in the browser, check out there work and get involved. C3DL is MIT licensed."
Brian Krausz: jQuery and IE
"What made me chuckle is looking at the jQuery.support page that outlines what “features” are detected. There are 11 features looked it, and the only time any of them are false are in IE. 8 of them are false in all versions of IE, one is only in IE7, another is in IE 6-8, and the last is in IE 6 and 7 when in Quirks Mode."
HTML5 video tag update
Some changes are coming for the HTML5 video tag in the nightlies:
- Time-scrubber will be implemented
- Volume control will work (not just mute/unmute)
- Controls will be invisible until mouseover for videos that play on load, and visible until the user presses play for videos that don’t play on load
- Some graphic spiffups
Jythonroid works on Dev Phone!
I remember an early Android internal tech talk where Guido got up and said "erm, Java and not Python? Really?" :)
Atlassian Developer Blog - git bisect...
"git comes with a built-in utility called bisect. This isn't unique to git. You can even do it with subversion via svn-bisect. The idea is that you tell it a good revision and a bad revision and then git helps you perform a binary search to narrow down exactly which commit broke things."
Mercurial hosting — bitbucket.org
"Bitbucket is a place for you and your team to host and follow your Mercurial projects. Mercurial is a so-called DVCS, or Distributed Version Control System, a new paradigm in version control, rapidly substituting the likes of Subversion and CVS."
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