Google assumes the creator of Python. As you (probably) know, Python is one of the most used language in G. (together with C++ and Java). A good thing (evolution and power for Python development) or the transformation of Python in a “Google only oriented language”? Stay tuned.
Via OSSBlog.
A simple but AMAZING idea. Bookmarking of the Hard-book! Here.
Callware VoiceOne is a web-app with an user-friendly look&feel about the management of PBX based on Asterisk Realtime Architecture (ARA) platform. With this software, it’s possible to control the internal telephone line of our (:D) company. It’s possible to manage: Internal numbers VoIP Providers Queue and multilevel permissions Automatic responser systems The application is under the Open Source LGP license and require Linux. Actually, 0.1 version is available.
BlogFS is a FUSE filesystem allowing you to mount your WordPress blog on your local filesystem. It uses XML-RPC and the MetaWeblog API to communicate with WordPress. It might work on other MetaWeblog compatible weblogs, but it has only been tested with the single user edition of WordPress 1.5.
This browser is a beauty “piece of code”: use the WebKit rendering engine and is full of good, usefull, great ideas. It’s very slim and fast (as Safari) and have some functionality that I saw only in FF extensions. Homepage here. Screenshots here.
I don’t know this: Apple, in past, did PDA. Apple Newton. Here a wikipedia article. And here an article (in italian) of Melablog about a museum dedicated to this fashinating PDA.
Here is the “classifications” of the most requested things on Google web-search engine during the 2005. Very interesting this: Google.com - Top Gainers of 2005 Myspace Ares Baidu wikipedia orkut iTunes Sky News World of Warcraft Green Day Leonardo da Vinci Very notable (for me, obviously) are wikipedia (4), iTunes (6) and World of Warcrafs (8). Wikipedia is demonstrating its power: a good idea that I hope never die. iTunes is demonstrating the power of music-selling on-line WoW: Amazing. The greatest game of the last years.
It’s a new and interesting site that offers some sceencast about various arguments. One of the most interesting is: Linux DNS Server 38 minutes 28 seconds This video explains how to set up a DNS server on a GNU/Linux server. In the video I explain a little bit about how DNS works, then I install and configure BIND in a chroot jail on 2 DNS servers in a master/slave relationship. This video is specifically tailored to setting up DNS for a web server. ...
fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux. Bash is a standard (de facto), as every *nix user now but… this is the beauty of the OpenSource: any other programmer can think “hey, I want to remake this in another way!” and, than, do! Fish is a beautiful example. For screenshots-addicted users (like me ;)), go here. -EDIT- Thanks to Nemo for “errata-corrige”.