Open Source News
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Firefox 4 Mobile Beta 5 lands, stability and speed leading up to release
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Final beta becomes available for Maemo and Android devices
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Python 3.2 is out, many fixes and improvements but no syntax changes
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Widely used open source language receives consistency and stability enhancements
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Canonical's Component Catalogue for Linux
Published 10 years ago by Adrian Bridgwater
New availability for 1300 certified components from 161 manufacturers
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Google release more detail on Renderscript, a 3D rendering and compute API for Android
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Android Honeycomb apps set to be able to deploy native code for faster and better graphics and computations
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AppHarbor aims to become Heroku for .NET but faces stiff competition
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Git deployment of web applications made easier than Azure
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COBOL gets hauled into 21st century
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
IntelliSense, debugging support, and JVM support come to 50 year old language
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Mono for Android preview arrives, get .NET on your Android
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Preview release brings C# and OpenGL to Android-powered smartphones
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IE 9 gets WebSockets and Web DB support, kind of
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Interoperability team bring out plugins for IE 9 to add support for fledgling web standards
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Android phones not just for phoning – now come as robots
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Google’s mobile OS takes on a new career as robot controller units
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Mono publishes huge list of upcoming releases
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Doubts of project survival following Novell purchase well and truly removed with upcoming plans revealed
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Moonlight gains hardware acceleration and 3D perspective support
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Open-source Silverlight runtime now comes with OpenGL-powered rendering
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New version of MonoDevelop arrives as Mono future seemingly confirmed
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Novell’s acquisition does not affect open-source project, says founder.
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Novell sale leaves Mono project funding uncertain
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
$450 million IP sale to Microsoft may secure project future
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Building F# apps under Linux and OS X just got a lot easier
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
F# continues Open Source adventure, plugins now available for MonoDevelop
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WebM Project announces massive uptake, new partners, speed increases
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Open-source and patent-free video codec now available on all major browsers, platforms and architectures
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Mono gains profiler, expects to add F# support
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
New log profiler enables better debugging for devs, F# incoming after open-source release
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New Zend framework brings cross-platform cloud computing to PHP
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
New Simple Cloud API allows one script to run on multiple cloud platforms
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PDC Day 1 Roundup - HTML 5, IE 9, C# 5
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Lots to entice developers at annual Microsoft conference
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IronRuby 1.1.1 comes with Visual Studio integration
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
As well as Ruby 1.9.2 support, quickly create Ruby projects and more with new tools
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Adobe launches AIR 2.5 and InMarket AIR app store
Published 10 years ago by Chris Alexander
Cross-platform gets serious with TVs, BlackBerry PlayBook, mobiles and more