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It’s the latest rage, if you have billions of dollars to spend. Just buy developers, give them free phones, free tools and promise them prime real-estate in the app store. Will it work, probably not, but in the end, Microsoft will have spent a lot of money trying. And its not that the Windows 8 […]

By Danwei Tran Luciani Knowing the location of your users can help boost the quality of your Web site and the speed of your service. In the past, users had to actively input their location and submit it to a site, either by typing it, using a long drop-down list, or clicking a map. Now, […]

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Not only has Joomla reached a record 30 Million downloads, but the Joomla Project is also very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5.4. Chock full of security updates and a few new features as well. This new release is in fact slated as a security release, however there are several new features […]

After 6 months of selected beta testing, Vizzuality has launched an all new open-source data-mapping tool. CartoDB is an easy to use and very customizable tool that will allow users to display their geospatial data. CartoDB is now an alternative to Fusion Tables by Google and boasting such existing clients as NASA and The Wall […]

One of the fastest Ruby servers on the planet, it supports Rack-based web frameworks while providing an easy to use Ruby interface and standard JavaEE services. TorqueBox is a Red Hat project and the successor to the JBoss-Rails project. Enabling users to run Ruby on Rails and Sinatra applications on top of JBoss which ties […]

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5.4. This is a security release. The Production Leadership Team’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. Learn more about Joomla! development at the Developer Site.

Today, HTML5 is kind of like a TV series without any future seasons written yet. It has a some episodes already filmed, some raw material that needs to be edited, some shots that are in line for cool special effects, and many, many rough drafts. Yeah, I`m talking about the whole HTML5 story, not just […]

Puma was developed for both speed and concurrency and is a viable alternative to WEBrick or Mongrel and unlike other Ruby Webservers, Puma was built for speed and concurrency. Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications. It is designed for running Rack apps […]

Yahoo’s decision to open source Mojito is most likely tied to their admission that, aside from all the progress made on the platform, they still have yet to implement all of the features that they had originally set out to accomplish. And as such, they have decided to release Mojito under the standard BSD license. […]

Fabric Engine release v1.0 of their all new multi-threaded optimised execution of scripting languages. The new system supports JavaScript and Python and Ruby and PHP are currently being developed. Benchmarks indicate Fabric Engine based applications are as fast or faster then those developed in C++ applications. Typically that type of performance would make scripting languages […]

The Little Workshop exploits the new WebSockets API from Mozilla in order to power a high-end Web-based gaming experience. And get this… it does NOT require another browser plug-in. Instead, users of BrowserQuest simply  need a browser. For now, Firefox, Chrome, Opera,  and of course, Safari. While the first few games available in BrowserQuest aren’t […]