After a quick look at Google Wave(tm), it appears to be a meld of a bulletin board, and e-mail. You create content (text etc…), and invite people to read/comment/update it. Looks a bit odd, but it may just be the future, and traditional e-mail may be consigned to the bin.
Having been pointed at the DeltaCloud API (http://deltacloud.org/) by https://twitter.com/jdrumgoole, I found it was a RedHat emerging technology project, and had a look at the website to see what else was “emerging”, I think you’ll find a couple of interesting technology projects there, including the oVirt Open Virtual Machine Management Web application, which looks really …
The proposed freeze of Debian 6.0 in Dec 09, has been postponed till Mar 2010, and while this is disappointing, I’m glad they postponed it. I don’t want Debian to become Ubuntu. The solid, rather than regular releases are far better, and hopefully we’ll get a 2.6.33 or newer kernel too.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/command-line-tricks-smart-geeks
PHP’s FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL validates email addresses quickly and easily. <?php $email = “marc@somehost.com”; if(filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === FALSE) { echo $email.” is invalid”; } else { echo $email.” is valid”; } ?> Read it all at http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/marc_plotz10012009.php3?page=2
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091111094923390
Mono Tools for Visual Studio
Synopsis: “Multiple race conditions in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or gain privileges by attempting to open an anonymous pipe via a /proc/*/fd/ pathname.” Debian 5.x systems suffer from this vulnerability (with or without Wine installed), and the …
Caucho’s Resin server now has PHP support with the Quercus module. Claiming anything from 4x to 6x performance improvement, and easy writing of extensions in Java (and presumably any JVM based language), it looks like a really great idea.