Reproduced from Open Source Magazine Interesting tidbit from the folks at Geeknet (They are the owners of SourceForge, Slashdot and Ohloh). OSS projects hosted on SourceForge are increasingly becoming more platform agnostic. Since early 2005, the percentage of projects that are platform agnostic has increased from approximately 50 percent to nearly 70 percent as of [...]
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10 best IT jobs right now
February 2nd, 2010
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Reproduced from SFGate IT professionals looking to find new employment or upgrade their current positions should investigate job opportunities that address growing demand for technologies such as virtualization, cloud, network security and social computing skills. Industry watchers report that while an economic recovery won’t guarantee that IT jobs return to pre-recession levels, increased interest in [...]
Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales and Open Sourcing in 2010
January 4th, 2010
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Jimmy Wales has discovered the only thing more challenging – and satisfying — than launching Wikipedia nearly a decade ago is refining the free, open source encyclopedia even as it is in the grip of its devoted users and contributors.
Wikipedia’s free-form collaborative nature — like the Web itself — contributes to both its wonder and its weakness. It has Wales, Wikipedia’s self-appointed chief promoter and spokesman, proudly boasting one minute and fiercely going on the defensive the next.
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