SpikeSource is currently sponsoring an Open Testing Contest. The contest aims to promote the concept of participatory testing while at the same time help projects improve their testing process. They are even offering prizes to the projects that improve their testing the most. First, if you haven’t nominated your project, you better do it fast. The deadline is August 31st.
Code coverage is measured by three tools for C/C++ (Bullseye), php (phpcodecoverage), and Java (clover) applications. SpikeSource will provide daily results for the aggregated code coverage across each project based on the results provided by these tools. The winning project will be the one that increases relative code coverage the most from September 15 - December 31, 2005.
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The news have been announced in many sources, just aftter the creation of the mambo foundation, Miro, the commercial company which owns the copyright to the GPL’d Mambo content management system has decided to assign all intellectual property rights to the Mambo Foundation, which it created to manage the CMS.
Peter Lamont, Chairman, Board of Regents Mambo Foundation, Inc. hav written an Open Letter to the Mambo Community, where he announced the changes in Mambo community
[…]Our next goal is to put together a strong organizational structure and encourage coordination between teams including core development, maintenance, documentation, translation, third-party development, membership, finance, administration and advocacy who will work under the Foundation umbrella.
OpenCola Softdrink is your way to start a Cola drink company to concurrence with the Coca cola, Pepsi and others. Or even if you want to make yourself your cola drinks at home. But its not that easy, read the disclaimer first
Making soft drinks is not for the faint of heart, nor the dirty of finger. It is a solemn enterprise not to be entered into lightly, as with marriage or buying used farm machinery.
OpenCola soda is distributed under the terms of the General Public License, which make it open source just like linux. The drink is a result of reverse engineering and study of current softdrinks. And still the most hard part is to find the ingredients.
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IBM on Monday announced that it was donating software to the Mozilla Foundation in order to make the next version of Firefox handicap accessible. The software would add the capabilities for Web pages to be automatically narrated or magnified, and allow navigation through keystrokes.
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Simply because when you search for ASP.NET you’ll get the official Microsoft website, while googling for PHP will give you the official PHP.NET website and all others PHP related websites. You can see how proprietary is Microsoft and how Open Source is PHP!
In O’reilly blogs Jim Van Meggelen was wondering “Nortel! Avaya! Siemens! Mitel! Where are you?” in fact while Googling for “PBX” you’ll find none of them even if they’re major actors in PBX industry.
Asterisk is taking easily the place number one ! It defenitely got the best ranking for the keyword PBX, a good PR (7), and its open source ! So definetely a more larger community online will talk about it and so the best ranking ever !
What about the others ? Simply none of them is optimized for the keyword PBX, or maybe for nothing else their business name ! For example to find nortel website you should google for “Nortel”, Googling for “Nortel PBX” will take you somewhere else.
I think such big companies would be interested for a better ranking, its more easy to find one of their partners rather than the main company itself. They just need to be explored by some e-marketing companies to do this job for them.
This is an interestning online book about Free Software for Busy People covering the usual candidates open office, firefox, thunderbird, OS, Internet Tools …
The book was written by Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, a Bahraini doctor and programmer who uses IT to improve healthcare. In the website you can notice many banners about experience of people who used free software “Meet the arab teacher and find out how he used free software”
Mr Al-Dean is a history teacher in a private high-school in Bahrain. This Arab country is a small island state in the Persian Gulf. It has recently begun democratic elections and its economy is based on the banking and education sectors.
He began by downloading a copy of the Arabic version of OpenOffice. The software is available in scores of languages from around the world. The Arabic version includes an Arabic user-interface and the ability to cope with bidirectional writing. This is important because Arabic is written from right to left.
Visit the website http://freedomsoftware.info/
WebDevRadio posted its first podcast, it cover a few new products/programs which may make your life a bit easier, and cover future topics. Thoughts on AJAX, Web services, internationalization, XP, performance, unit testing and more
Listen to Podcast #0 (31:34min / 28.9MB)
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The BBC today launched their BBC Open Source website, providing a home for projects such as their video codec dirac , TV-Anytime Java API and Kamaelia network testbed.
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PHP Podcast Episode #6 is already out. In this episode, Chris talks a bit about the European software patents being rejected, the Apache Friends project, Smarty, Not trusting the users, and a bit more security for your scripts.
Just wanted to add something, in PHP security we should never trust anybody, but you know if you’re always doing PHP stuff always secure, you’ll start to never trust anybody in real life. Too Bad yeah ?! No, I always trust my family and a lot of my good friends and keeping my PHP stuff secure. That’s the thought of the day, I just need to copy the podcast on my smartphone, then home sweet home to listen with chawarma and my favorite ananas juice 
