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Linus released

• 2.6.24 on January 24th 2008,
• 2.6.26 on July 13th, 2008, and
• 2.6.27 on October 9 2008

Here is when it reached the usersRead more

I have a project it mind that will require a website, while I'm a big fan of Joomla I thought maybe I should use something different and looked at Drupal when someone on twitter (or one of the microblogging sites) suggested I look at MODx.

Now I'd not heard of MODx and seeing as I'm always open to new ideas thought I would take a look. I have to say it looks very good, professional and feels solid. I installed it on a Web Server I have access to which unfortunately is Windows based but that shouldn't be  a problem.Read more

In the latest stimulus bill passed by the senate hides a big win for Open Source companies like Novell and RedHat.

On page 488 the topic reads:

Study and Reports on Availability of Open Source Health Information Technology Systems

This bill is saying:

The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, in consultation with the Under Secretary for Health of the Vetrans Health Administration, the Directory of the Indian Health Service, the Secretary of Defence, the Directory of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, conduct a study onRead more

Because 25 random things is 25 too many.

So lets get a new T-Shirt:

The T-Shirt can be ordered at DESPAIR, INC (http://despair.com)

Looks like Koushik Dutta has been kicking butt getting Mono onto Google's Android platform:

• Compiling Mono under the Android Build Environment
• Microsoft's DLR and Mono bring Python and Ruby to Android
• Mono/Dalvik Interop

Keep up the awesome hacking, Koushik!Read more

This meme has been doing the rounds on Facebook and elsewhere.Read more

I'm drinking my Saturday morning tea and looking back on a pretty crappy week. I was burning the candle at both ends to get various enterprise stuff finished in time, and didn't have enough energy to really enjoy FOSDEM. Here are the openSUSE devroom slides from FOSDEM 2009.Read more

Congratulations to the Mono project for winning the Developer.com Product of the Year Award in the .NET Tool/Add-in category!

"It is no surprise to see Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) take the prize for technology of the year; however, seeing the open source project Mono 2.0 grab the honors for .NET tool is a surprise," stated Bradley Jones, Senior Executive Editor of Internet.com's Developer Channel.

Very exciting!

Jeff just pointed out to me that Mono 2.0 won
the ".NET
Tool/Add-in of the Year" award from the guys at
developer.com.

Sweetness!