In case you didn’t already notice in your blog dashboard, WordPress has released version 1.0 of its powerfull “Multi-User” platform. Go team!
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Congrats to “Mr. E” and KFactor Technologies on the recent 5.0 release of their popular open-source flagship product, AgoraCart. AgoraCart is a secure e-commerce solution written in Perl and included in CPanel. This new version has a lot of new features and is going to get some massive distribution, but you don’t need to wait [...]
I’ll be going to a BBQ meeting tonight (Thursday) to help lay out plans for the first annual Utah Open Source Conference. The event won’t take place until August of next year, but we wanted to get started early because we want it to be HUGE! :)
Anyway, if you want to come along and help, [...]
It looks like Google SketchUp is now live. But besides enabling users to put mock ups on Google Earth, I’m having a hard time seeing how this acquisition fits into its Google’s overall search strategy. Still, it looks pretty cool and will probably be great for branding. Plus, I believe that if it’s cool enough, [...]
Google’s Summer of Code is a great opportunity for IT and CS students to learn new skills, improve their resume, and make a little money during the summer. Plus, it offers students an opportunity to work with some really big-name open source software organizations.
Google is not taking applications yet, but it should be really soon, [...]
Those of you who are visiting my site in IE will notice my new alert, generated by the Spread Firefox Plugin for WordPress. Quoth the alert: “Internet Explorer sucks. Jordy recommends Firefox (a free open-source alternative) so your browsing will suck no more forever. Click here to learn more or download.”
It’s a little spammy but [...]
Fedora Core 5 is out. Here are the release announcement, release summary, release notes, mirrors, and torrents.
For those who don’t know, “Fedora Core is [a Red Hat sponsored] operating system and platform, based on Linux, that is always free for anyone to use, modify and distribute, now and forever. It is developed by a large [...]
My brother set up a Utah Open Source Planet to aggregate posts from anyone who’s an “Open Source FRIEND/USER/HACKER/ZEALOT” in Utah. If you live in Utah, love open source, and want to be aggregated, just follow his submission instructions.
Other good resources for Utah Open Source Junkies:
Utah Valley Linux User Group
Greater Utah BSD User Group
Ogden Area [...]
The PageRank for Software for Starving Students (via Google’s toolbar) went clear from 0 to 5 with the latest data update. That’s pretty indicative of the almost immediate success the project has enjoyed. The site has only been up since the very end of December but has had some really incredible growth. Just check out [...]
Jake Spurlock IMed me pointing out that the Mac version of the Software for Starving Students CD is listed as Apple’s featured download for Mac OS X. This is great exposure for the project. Good work team. :)
