Comment Re:WiX was frist! (Score 1) 87
Are you sure that WiX is a web app? Doesn't look like one to me.
Submission + - Microsoft finally certifies an open source web app (technet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has caught up with the fact that open source web-based software exists, today announcing an open source project written in PHP is the first "Certified for Windows" software that (a) follows an OSI-approved license and (b) runs via a webserver rather than operating as a native Windows executable.
The software in question is SilverStripe CMS, free software released under a BSD license, that is used to build and manage websites. Certification entails a third-party performing various tests and audits on the software and giving it the green light.
If other open source projects can follow suit, this will be another step in getting business folk to see that open source is ready for enterprise use. And heck, maybe even a .NET application could now seek to be certified!
The software in question is SilverStripe CMS, free software released under a BSD license, that is used to build and manage websites. Certification entails a third-party performing various tests and audits on the software and giving it the green light.
If other open source projects can follow suit, this will be another step in getting business folk to see that open source is ready for enterprise use. And heck, maybe even a
Comment Harden up (Score 2, Funny) 140
Alternatively, just don't wear gloves. Your body (hopefully) has a lower minimum operational temperature than your touchscreen device.
Comment Wrong date (Score 0, Redundant) 296
It's not the year 10. It's the year 2010. Surely we've learnt to stop using two digits for our years?
Google Chrome Now Has Resource-Blocking Adblock 335
MackieChan writes "It seems to have slipped under the radar, but Google Chrome now has resource-blocking abilities, and may have had the ability for some time. Using the 'beforeload' event on the document, an extension can now intercept resources from loading. Adblock for Chrome has already added it, and I expect the other 'ad-blocking' extensions have as well. Before you start praising Google, however, it's the WebKit team that deserves your credit; one Chromium developer responded to praise by stating '... thank Apple — they added it to WebKit, we just inherited it.' Firefox vs. Chrome just got a bit more exciting."
Comment Drive-by installing (Score 0, Troll) 278
I'm sure someone could create a honeypot wifi network that forces all Android devices that connect to it to install a particular app. Maybe it'll even teach people to stop wardriving.
Comment Outside the US? (Score 0, Troll) 205
What about for those of us that don't like the US and definitely don't want to work there?
Comment International will still suck (Score 3, Interesting) 169
Yet, this corporation doesn't take into account New Zealand's main bottle-neck: the Southern Cross Cable. Only having one link to the rest of the internet, and that link is owned by a for-profit business, makes for piss-poor international bandwidth. Luckily, there are some people making some noise about laying another cable, just so there's no longer a monopoly and we might actually get some decent speeds.
Comment Re:For a price of course (Score 1) 240
Because I don't live in the US, so my carrier doesn't suck and allowed me to tether as soon as 3.0 came out, for free.
Comment We get it already (Score 1) 307
People don't like developing for the iP[whatever]. I suppose we'll be seeing a new article every time someone somewhere complains about it.
Comment Stereotyping? (Score 2, Insightful) 263
So almost every developer either:
a) Uses Erlang and a Mac
b) Uses Perl or
c) Uses VS2010?
Is it just me, it would there still be a fair chunk of developers not included?
Comment Score (Score 5, Informative) 193
For those too lazy to read the article, he scored 41,338,740, with the previous high score being 41,336,440
Comment Re:HTML5 Video (Score 2, Informative) 428
Comment Adding comments (Score 4, Informative) 344
I've picked up an open source project that doesn't have comments. There's major chunks of it that the code is such a mess that I have no idea what it does, yet I'm supposed to be fixing it.
Comment Re:How to annoy the ISPs (Score 1) 221
After all how are you to know whether a site is mearly slashdotted or being blocked?
From the FAQ:
The request is diverted to the filter server which sees that the URL is banned and an “Access is refused” page is returned. The internet address of the requesting computer is logged.
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