Top languages on Github: JavaScript reigns, Ruby and Python next

By tim, on January 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I cloned a github repository today, and while browsing the site noticed the language stats:

Git was originally developed for the Linux kernel and is mainly for the open source community. I was interested to see JavaScript, the language of HTML 5, riding so high. PHP, C and C++ are lower than I

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Trying out nide – a cloud IDE for Node.js

By tim, on January 6th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I was intrigued by reports of nide, a web-based IDE for Node.js. It was one of the entries in the Node.js Knockout challenge last summer.

So how do you install it? One line on Linux; but I did not want to put it on my web server and I re-purposed my spare Linux machine

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Users petition Asus over locked bootloader in Asus Transformer Prime

By tim, on January 3rd, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

The new Asus Transformer Prime TF201 Android tablet is winning praise for its performance and flexibility. It is driven by NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor and can be equipped with a keyboard and dock that extends battery life and makes the device more like a laptop.

All good; but techie users are upset that

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Miguel de Icaza talks about Windows 8 and the failure of Linux on the desktop

By tim, on September 26th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

At Microsoft BUILD earlier this month I arrived early to hear Anders Hejlsberg talk about the future of C#, and found myself next to Miguel de Icaza, co-creator of the GNOME desktop and of Mono, the open source implementation of Microsoft .NET. I took the opportunity to ask a few questions, which I have

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Embarcadero promises Delphi everywhere: Mac, iOS this year, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone to follow

By tim, on July 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I noticed the following remark from Embarcadero’s David Intersimone regarding Delphi, its application builder based on Pascal.

We are putting Delphi (and C++Builder) everywhere this year and over the next 5 years. Today you can use Delphi for Desktop, Client/Server, Multi-Tier, Cloud, Web, Web Services (REST and SOAP). This year you will also be

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Cross-platform concerns as Adobe abandons AIR for Linux

By tim, on June 16th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is giving up on AIR for Linux – at least, in a fully supported manner:

To support the variety of Linux-based platforms across PCs and devices, we are prioritizing a Linux porting kit for AIR (including source code), which Open Screen Project (OSP) partners can use to complete implementations of AIR for Linux-based

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Intel disappointed with Nokia’s Microsoft move, still backing MeeGo

By tim, on February 13th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Intel’s Suzy Ramirez has posted about the future of MeeGo Linux following Nokia’s decision to base its smartphone strategy on Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. Nokia was Intel’s key partner for MeeGo, which was formed by merging Intel’s Moblin with Nokia’s Maemo.

Although Nokia has been an important partner to Intel and MeeGo and

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MeeGo, Qt, and the new Nokia: developers express their doubts

By tim, on February 11th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

What are the implications of the new partnership between Nokia and Microsoft for MeeGo, the device-oriented Linux project sponsored by Intel and Nokia? What about Qt, the application framework that unifies Symbian and MeeGo development?

Here is what Nokia says:

Under the new strategy, MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system project. MeeGo will

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MeeGo NoGo: things look bad for the Intel/Nokia Linux project

By tim, on February 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

A sad post yesterday from MeeGo contributor Andrew Wafaa suggests that MeeGo on netbooks may no longer happen:

Basically by all accounts MeeGo is stopping all work on the Netbook UX. Yup, all our hard work is now almost for nothing

This is remarkable. The original Moblin project, sponsored by Intel, was all

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Accelerating PHP with the Alternative PHP Cache

By tim, on January 21st, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I decided to install the open source Alternative PHP Cache on this server in order to improve performance. Interesting exercise. This server runs Debian Linux, and there are several ways to install APC:

1. Install the official package with apt-get install php-apc or similar

2. Install with the PHP Extension Community Library which goes

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