code bits

Oracle Blog: "After a relatively long road traveled with a few bumps along the way, as of yesterday, Linus's mainline tree (2.6.39+) contains literally every component needed for Linux to run both as a management domain kernel(Dom0) and a guest(DomU)."

tom callaway: "Google is forking existing FOSS code bits for Chromium like a rabbit makes babies: frequently, and usually, without much thought.

Rather than leverage the existing APIs from upstream projects like icu, libjingle, and sqlite (just to name a few), they simply fork a point in time of that code and hack their API to shreds for chromium to use."

If you've ever wanted to give back to the PHP project, but weren't sure quite how, Rafael Dohms has written up a post to make one of the options much easier to get into - writing PHPT tests for the PHP language.