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Unsung, Unpaid Coders Behind Federal IT Dashboard 99

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 12, 2009 @09:10AM from the where-credit-is-due dept.

theodp writes "The Federal CIO got a standing ovation for the new Federal IT Dashboard. Federal contractors got the cash. But sneak a peek at the 'customcode' directory behind the Dashboard, and you'll see that some individuals also helped bring it to life with their free software. For starters, there's Timothy Groves' Auto Suggest (Creative Commons License), Alf Magne Kalleland's Ajax Tooltip and Dynamic List (GNU Lesser General Public License), and Gregory Wild-Smith's Simple AJAX Code-Kit (SACK) (modified X11 License)."

Comment Re:Doesn't support Dirac (Score 2, Informative) 176

by MadMoose on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @12:37PM (#27136447) Attached to: FFmpeg Finally Releases Long-Awaited Version 0.5

Try Movist on OS X, it lets you choose between FFmpeg and QT. And the interface is lovely.

Comment Re:Even more annoying... (Score 1) 1021

by adabyron on Wednesday April 27, 2005 @09:47AM (#12358394) Attached to: Comments are More Important than Code

That's sadly more descriptive than some comments I've seen such as: int length; // length or: class foo { // class foo

Comment Re:No SVG? (Score 5, Informative) 311

by MadMoose on Monday June 07, 2004 @07:28AM (#9355131) Attached to: Mozilla, Opera Form Group to Develop Web App Specs

Certain parts of SVG - ie. all the cool vector graphics bits - will probably go into Mozilla once it's ready and if it doesn't impact the rest of Mozilla too much speedwise and footprintwise

Other parts of SVG will (probably/hopefully) never get into Mozilla. Like raw socket support: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG12/#rawsocket

Ian Hickson mentions other crappy things about SVG in his blog (which I'll be nice and not link to from /. - learn to google)

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