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PHP Founder Quits Yahoo
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
This week Rasmus announced, via tweet, that he quit. I guess, this had to happen as a aftermath of Yahoo announcing the outsourcing of it’s search techology to Microsoft. The PHP founder is just one of the many high-profile engineers and developers that have left Yahoo recently. Lerdorf says he’s “Probably crazy to leave the best [...]
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One Billion Downloads of Firefox!
Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
The popular Firefox browser from Mozilla has just past its billionth download. Firefox reached its landmark download on 31st July at 15:00 UTC, at which point the browser was being downloaded at a rate of 24 times per second. You can track this achievement via an official Mozilla site or over on a Twitter account specifically [...]
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SourceForge Community Awards
Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
Twelve SourceForge community choice awards have been assigned to nine different open source projects.More than 47,000 open source projects were nominated for slots in one of 12 categories, but only 85 were chosen as finalists. PortableApps won four awards, included “Best Project”. OpenOffice.org, awarded with 3 prizes last year, won ‘just’ an award, resulting the “best [...]
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MySQL Librarian
Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
The MySQL Librarian is an initiative aimed to collect links to the best MySQL-related material on the web. The MySQL Librarian initiative is very young, at the moment there are about 217 items, 140 of them are presentations, 33 videos plus pictures and books. We need to wait for sometime before seeing if this new initiative [...]
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