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Windows 7 Battery Notification Messages _#

| e7blog | blogs.msdn.com

[Consider replacing your battery - Windows 7 notification]

Over the past week we have seen a little bit of blogosphere activity regarding Windows 7 and batteries, specifically the new Windows 7 message “Considering...

Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work _#

| Joe Brockmeier | ostatic.com

Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source.

SourceForge Removes "Blanket" Block _#

| Joe Brockmeier | ostatic.com

After just a few weeks, SourceForge has backed off its policy of imposing a blanket ban on all users trying to access the site from...

LinuxCon Puts Out Call for Papers Ahead of Summer Event _#

| Lisa Hoover | ostatic.com

LinuxCon 2010 is just six months away, and the Linux Foundation is on the lookout for attendees and presenters alike.

CodeSOD: Phishing for a Refund _#

| Mark Bowytz | thedailywtf.com

As I'm sure is the case with many of you, I sure do love me some tax refund.

“Going live” with the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate _#

| jeffbe | blogs.msdn.com

We are pleased to declare that the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 will be supported as a “go live”...

Migrating your Modeling artifacts to RC

Feb 5

Layoffs Won't Stop Project Wonderland _#

| Joe Brockmeier | ostatic.com

Hats off to the Project Wonderland developers. Despite Oracle laying them off, the team will continue work on Project Wonderland.

Mozilla Studying Menu Item Use in Firefox _#

| Joe Brockmeier | ostatic.com

The Mozilla Labs Test Pilot program is studying the way users interact with the browser's menu bar.

Big Blue demos 100GHz chip _#

| Team Register | regdeveloper.co.uk

One atom thin IBM reseachers have made a breakthrough in the development of ultra-high-speed transistor design, creating a 100GHz graphene-based wafer-scale device.

Vodafone Twitterer takes aim at some beaver _#

| Team Register | regdeveloper.co.uk

Tells world he needs something for the weekend Vodafone had a burst of Friday-afternoon fever with a tweet informing the world that its weekend plans...

Vodafone tosses out idiot tweeter

Feb 4

Raising Money for Open Source Projects: How Can We Improve? _#

| Joe Brockmeier | ostatic.com

One of the things I admire about the FLOSS community is the willingness to dig in and tackle problems facing a project, whether they're technical,...

Microsoft and the National Science Foundation Enable Research in the Cloud _#

| research.microsoft.com

Agreement will offer free access to new computational and collaborative services to accelerate scientific discovery for research communities.

Rails 3.0: Beta release _#

| David | weblog.rubyonrails.org

You thought we were never going to get to this day, didn’t you?

Adobe Flash getting faster on the Mac _#

| tim | itwriting.com

According to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: Flash Player on Windows has historically been faster than the Mac, and it is for the most part the...

Adobe CTO says Flash works 20% faster on IE8 than Firefox

Emergency Faxes _#

| Mark Bowytz | thedailywtf.com

As far as technologies go, faxing is ancient. It predates the telephone by over a decade and, despite vast advances in scanning and email technology,...

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· Jul 19 – HexLex, The Blog: 2004-2006

HexLex, the blog, has been retired.
Open Source Software - Find, Evaluate, Collaborate - OStatic (37.50%)
ostatic.com

· Feb 8 – Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work

· Jan 26 – When Ideologies Collide: SourceForge Blocks Countries on US Sanction List
The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology (10.04%)
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· Feb 1 – CodeSOD: Else... where?

· Feb 8 – CodeSOD: Phishing for a Refund
Daring Fireball (8.44%)
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· Feb 1 – What if Flash Were an Open Standard?

· Jan 30 – Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
MSDN Blogs (4.62%)
blogs.msdn.com

· Jan 29 – Improving perceived WPF app startup performance with MEF and a Splash Screen

· Jan 29 – Using the WPF Tree Visualizer -- vstipDebug0004
Reg Developer: News, reviews, analysis, and advice for software developers (4.18%)
regdeveloper.co.uk

· Feb 5 – Big Blue demos 100GHz chip

· Feb 5 – Vodafone Twitterer takes aim at some beaver
F5 DevCentral (3.10%)
devcentral.f5.com

· Feb 1 – Clouds Are Like Onions

· Jan 11 – Secure DNS with BIG-IP v10.1 DNSSEC
rc3.org — Strong opinions weakly held (2.48%)
rc3.org

· Jan 28 – Is the iPad the harbinger of doom for personal computing?

· Jan 12 – Google and China
Javalobby | The heart of the Java developer community (2.08%)
java.dzone.com

· Jan 25 – Continuous Integration Refcard Released: Meet The Author

· Jan 19 – When Will Java Web Start be Production Quality?
dive into mark (1.73%)
diveintomark.org

· Jan 29 – Tinkerer’s Sunset
Alan Williamson (1.46%)
alan.blog-city.com

· Jan 12 – Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed?
CodeBetter.Com - Stuff you need to Code Better! (1.30%)
codebetter.com

· Jan 22 – The WebForms Rant

· Jan 27 – How do I expose configuration information through MEF?
A List Apart: A List Apart (1.19%)
alistapart.com

· Jan 26 – Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II

· Jan 26 – Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I
Pushing Pixels (1.17%)
pushing-pixels.org

· Feb 1 – Drinking From The Firehose – Design Inspiration January 2010

· Jan 23 – Custom component states in Substance 6.0
Simon Willison's Weblog (1.14%)
simonwillison.net

· Feb 2 – HipHop for PHP: Move Fast

· Jan 12 – WildlifeNearYou: It began on a fort...
Musings of an Anonymous Geek (1.10%)
protocolostomy.com

· Jan 18 – If You Don’t Date Your Work, It Sucks.
Urbancode Blogs (1.05%)
anthillpro.com

· Feb 4 – Stop Working in Silos

· Feb 3 – Conway's Law explains why we have manual deployments
Coding Horror (1.03%)
codinghorror.com

· Jan 10 – A Democracy of Netbooks
good coders code, great reuse (1.03%)
catonmat.net

· Jan 18 – Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VI: nerd_tree.vim

· Jan 13 – Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa
James Gosling: on the Java Road (0.99%)
blogs.sun.com

· Jan 22 – OK, it's time to look forward...

· Jan 21 – So long, old friend...
MySQL Performance Blog (0.96%)
mysqlperformanceblog.com

· Jan 20 – XtraDB feature: save / restore buffer pool

· Jan 21 – When should you store serialized objects in the database?
Microsoft Research Home (0.89%)
research.microsoft.com

· Feb 4 – Microsoft and the National Science Foundation Enable Research in the Cloud

· Feb 4 – Democratizing Research: How 'Client Plus Cloud' Computing Can Amplify What's Possible for Scientists
Object Mentor Blog (0.84%)
blog.objectmentor.com

· Jan 17 – Dependency Injection Inversion
Negative Approach - CNET News (0.78%)
news.cnet.com

· Feb 2 – How the enterprise is going social

· Jan 20 – Cloud and open source meet to test Web apps
amix.dk - Adventures of Amir Salihefendic (0.75%)
amix.dk

· Jan 29 – Plurk: Instant conversations using comet

· Jan 28 – Comet (long polling) for all browsers using ScriptCommunicator