NVD3 Erased From Existence
I was incredibly surprised to find out today that the popular graphing library NVD3 has been erased from the web, due to what what looks like a copyright dispute.
Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser
These days, we spend more time online – working with docs, email, music and occasionally even accessing social media. But, our online and desktop experiences have been disjointed. We give applications the full run of our desktops, where they have their own icons and windows, but we trap the whole Internet inside one…
3D printer community revolting against Makerbot's new closed-source printer
When I woke up, my RSS reader showed some "occupy thingiverse" things posted on Thingiverse. I'm still trying to figure out all that happen...
The Z3 theorem prover is now open source
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Meteor meets NoGPL
Meteor made a big splash this week. Check out their screencast if you haven’t already. For “real-time” web applications it really seems to simplify things a whole lot. The team behind it seems plenty experienced and they are building a business on Meteor by going with the GPL/commercial dual-license approach made…
Datomic Free Edition
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
LibreOffice 3.5.4 released with up to 100% performance improvements
Up to 100% performance improvements thanks to the efforts of a diverse and growing developer and QA community Berlin, May 30, 2012 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.4, the fifth version of the free office suite’s 3.5 family. LibreOffice 3.5.4 offers significant performance improvements over the…
The Case for a Git-Powered Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg, for those of you that are not already familiar with it, is one of the single-most important community projects of the century: an attempt at creating a digital library of free bo…
Bootstrap 2.2.2 is out
Today we're launching Bootstrap 2.2.2, another larger bugfix release that focuses mostly on CSS and documentation fixes, with a few key JS issues mixed in as…
Microsoft Open Sources their Entity Framework ORM
Almost exactly two years from the day we announced Entity Framework 'Magic ...