At the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jim Whitehurst (CEO of Red Hat) made a number of great points about Free Software and how it can help companies, including his own. According to Whitehurst, “95% of software is developed by enterprises each year and is not for resale.” Furthermore, he states … Continue reading “95% of software is developed by enterprises each year and is not for resale”
Windows, Java, and an Internationalization Mess
The project which I’m currently working on is a Java project, powered by Spring, built by Maven. I use Ubuntu/Linux to build and run the project locally, but everyone else on the team uses Windows XP. We recently got back a set of translations that included pages in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian – all … Continue reading Windows, Java, and an Internationalization Mess
Firefox 3 – making the web a little better
I’ve been using Firefox 3 betas for a few months now, through the really rough times when bookmarking was totally broken, up until the present day (Firefox 3.0b4 – click for a short review). It’s really been an impressive transformation, and I think that it will mark a very nice evolution in the web. It’s … Continue reading Firefox 3 – making the web a little better