open source developers

OStatic: "FOSSBazaar recently highlighted Evangelia Berdou's doctoral thesis on the differences between the contributions of paid open source developers and volunteer contributors."

OStatic: "Open source developers and proprietary developers alike can benefit from Opera Web Standards Curriculum and W3 Schools."

Inquirer: "Microsoft recently announced it will open an open-source "interoperability" lab in the country, the first in Asia Pacific, the company said."

OStatic: "Let's say that you've decided to start using a new programming language or framework. How can you learn what to do, or take some initial steps?

Years ago, the obvious answer was the buy a book, or perhaps a magazine. Today, you're likely to read an online tutorial, or one of the many blogs that have sprung up about many of these technologies."

The organizers of OSDC::Israel::2009 have asked me to help them find sponsors for their event.

The Open Source Developers' Conference in Israel, 2009 is planned to be a low-cost three-day muliple track conference held somewhere in Israel.

The conference will be held in the beginning of 2009. Exact dates and location will be announced later on our mailing lists.

I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at OSDC 2008 later this year.

Type-Safe Objects in PHP

Out-of-the-Box, PHP does not support the declaration of a type for the attributes of a class.

This can lead to problems when you expose a PHP class as a Web Service and want to automatically generate the WSDL from the class' sourcecode, for instance.

Boy am I thrilled.

Builder AU: "Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun 'screwed up...'"

Strategic Developer: "Those of you who are open source developers have probably already figured out that I'm going to talk about Git, the version control system, and that no, I don't actually mean 'Git going' for most of you..."

ONLamp: "Yesterday Google celebrated the opening of a larger Cambridge, Massachusetts office, which takes up a substantial part of a building right next to the Kendall/MIT subway stop in the higher-than-high tech area of East Cambridge..."