Every once in awhile we have to give our professional opinion to clients on what open source license is “safe†for a particular use.For the most part, MIT, BSD, and the Apache licenses are good for business. GPL, LGPL you need to be very careful.Either way, you need to follow different guidelines for each license … Open Source License Types
We recently did some interesting code/spec work for the bluetooth protocol where we had to duplex data and sound between a device on a mobile platform and a specialty BT device. During my research – I signed up on some great bluetooth feeds; I can’t wait to try this invisible Bluetooth headset!My wife says I … Open Source License Types
I wanted to give everyone an idea on where we will be in 10 years on the technology front – so you can say that you heard it first from Jack. We are at the crux of an exponential boom in technology. Before you think Jack had another “All work and no play day†check … Jack’s Top 10 in 10 Technology Predictions
Scientists in the future (or possibly God) are sending back birds and old bread so that we don’t create the Higgs boson particle in large quantities. I am not making this up (ok I made up the old bread part it might have been fresh) – and if you follow physics you will know it … Time traveling birds
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boyAll work and no play makes Jack a dull boyAll work and no play makes Jack a dull boyAll work and no play makes Jack a dull boy BMW comes out with a sweet new concept motorcycle. It has nothing to do with open source or … BMW and Software Development
OK after just doing a little bit of a rip fest on Google’s new language GO – I have to say I am excited about the idea of Google Chrome OS. I am not totally sure they should call it an OS, since the kernel is Linux; but the idea of the browser being the … Google Chrome OS Programming
OK – so Google announces a new C based programming language: Go, and it is immediately picked up by bloggers – (us included, arrgghh) And as a company that programs in a whole slew of languages we want to know what we can do with it. In reality the answer is “not much yetâ€Other than … New language: Google No Go
I have always thought Mark Russinovich of sysinternals was “the man” (even prior to Microsoft acquiring them). He just proved me right again with the release of disk2vhd. Seriously how cool is this?!?“Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in … Turn your machine into a virtual machine
So I was wondering which is cooler. Google Friend Connect or Facebook Connect… both are technologies that allow federated login for a site and attachment of social features you can use. For example I can log into some of my apps on my iPhone using my Facebook credentials and I never have to create a … Google vs Facebook
So we like to run lean and mean and one of our providers is http://www.assembla.com/ – they have a great set of SVN, Collaboration and ticketing tools all in a hosted and affordable model. The reason I wanted to give them special mention is we had a small problem over the weekend (just an administrative … Assembla great for Agile
