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Interesting debate about Open Source and Support

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Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, dynamic, and portable. Similar in scope to Perl and Python, it has high-level data types, automatic memory management, dynamic typing, a module system, exceptions, and a rich standard library. To help address performance issues, virtual machines for Ruby have been developed, such as JRuby and YARV, which is being integrated into the Ruby distribution. If yo

Google had informed that Google will not tolerate the strategy of buying Text Link Ads (TLA) from higher page rank websites to get better Google PageRank. Since the first time TLA being announced, Text Link Advertising has becoming a much more popular method for sites to earn that extra bit of cash.

eXist is an Open Source native XML database featuring efficient, index-based XQuery processing, automatic indexing, extensions for full-text search, XUpdate support, XQuery update extensions and tight integration with existing XML development tools.

SourceLabs, the company behind Swik, announced a new product to help large companies manage open source internally. The system is built on top of the same platform that drives Swik.

This is some inside stuff about Me.dium from talks with the developers there. There is a link for people who have not experienced Me.dium to get in for a peek at the latest additions there. Shamelessly submitted by the author so that Swik readers might benifit.

This is an article about how we treat each other and where that treatment may ultimately take us. With Web 2.0 as the backdrop and as a fabulous utility, why do we continue to act irresponsibly.

From the beginners Ruby On Rails "how to" tutorial (even better, there's video also) to complete frameworks and development environments.

Interesting article about open source software, services and web2.0

A new phase of wrangling over the future of the dominant open-source license, the General Public License, is set to begin Wednesday and to end 90 days afterward.

Meet one of the faces of the real Web 2.0, open source community! Swik, the SourceLabs project has put on a new dinner jacket and is ready to tango

SourceLabs is giving away Wiis as part of the release of the spanking new Homepage. Fill in your details and we'll roll the dice to give our Wiis away!

Bas Wenneker has written Plotr, a charting engine in Prototype that uses canvas. Example PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   var dataset = {                 'myFirstDataset': [[0, 1], [1, 0.8], [2, 2.3], [3, 1.3], [4, 2.56]],                 'mySecondDataset': [[0, 0.5], [1, 0.5], [2, 2], [3, 1], [4, 1.4]]

(correction): fixed Upton Sinclair quote it is ’salary’ not ‘job’ (thanks for the correction) Even with all the buzz, it is still a tough sell. If you’ve suggested Rails as an alternative to (Java|.NET) at work, you’ve probably experienced some reactionary pushback. Convincing a set of established “Enterprisy” engineers that Rails is worth paying attention to it is like convincing a Texas oil baron that he should purchase a Subcompact hybrid