Digg.com sold to Betaworks
Catching up with Slashdot today, I read about Digg.com being sold to Betaworks: The once popular social news website Digg.com, which received $45 million in funding, is being sold to to Betaworks for...
View ArticlejQuery 2.0 will drop support for MSIE 6, 7, and 8
Slashdot reports: The developers of jQuery recently announced in a blog entry that jQuery 2.0 will drop support for legacy versions of Internet Explorer. The release will come in parallel with version...
View ArticleAdobe PhoneGap 2.0 Released
We’re excited to announce the following major new features in PhoneGap 2.0: Cordova WebView – This allows for the integration of PhoneGap, as a view fragment, into a bigger native application. Command...
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HTML5 splits into two standards
Just when web developers got a little bit of hope, Slashdot reports on the bad news. Until now the two standards bodies working on HTML5 (WHATWG and W3C ) have cooperated. An announcement by WHATWG...
View ArticleFedora 18 features
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee has recently had a meeting where the upcoming Fedora 18 features were decided. Out of the whole list, I am actually really looking forward to just one – 256...
View ArticleLinkedIn “improved” profile
Today I got an email from LinkedIn, telling me that I am about to get an improved profile. On December 11, 2012, you’ll be getting the new LinkedIn profile, which has a simplified design, provides...
View ArticleLinux kernel drops 386 support
Slashdot reports that Linux kernel won’t support 386 machines no more. This is more of a sentimental announcement for nostalgic reasons. The commentary is hilarious and insightful, as often with...
View ArticleFedora 18
After a two month delay, Fedora 18 is finally here. So far, I have been surprised by two things: Phasing out of “preupgrade” for “fedup“. Seriously? How’s “fedup –network 18” better than...
View Article1TB free Flickr storage
Gigaom reports: “We want to make Flickr awesome again,” Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said. Flickr is getting three big updates. All users will get 1 terabyte of photo storage for free. The site’s s...
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GitHub : new look
GitHub blog announced a new look and navigation for the programmers’ best friend. Have a look at some of the screenshots, say “WOW!” and rush back to your repositories, looking for the magic “Enable...
View ArticleFedora 19 released
Fedora 19 has been released a few hours ago. This is one of the most interesting releases, feature-wise, for me personally. Have a look at the announcement, and scroll through the full list of...
View ArticleJust upgraded my blog to WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”. …
Just upgraded my blog to WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”. As always, it took only a few clicks and seconds. All seems to be working fine.
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WordPress 3.8 is available for immediate download
The bright new and shiny version – WordPress 3.8 – is available for download. As I mentioned previously, the biggest change is the reworked administration area that now scales well to smaller...
View ArticleFedora 20 released
Fedora community celebrates the release of Fedora 20 today. It is an anniversary release, marking 10 years since the birth of the project. Yes, that’s two releases per year, all according to the...
View ArticleCraig Ferguson is leaving CBS’“Late Late show” in December
IMDb reports: Craig Ferguson will step down as host of CBS’ “The Late Late Show” in December when his contract with the network expires after nearly a decade asDavid Letterman‘s companion in the 12:35...
View ArticleWordPress 4.3 “Billie” is out
The brand new and shiny version 4.3 of WordPress is out, bringing more bells and whistles to Customizer, formatting shortcuts to the editor (looks like Markdown made its mark), and more. I’ve upgraded...
View ArticleRed Hat acquires Ansible
Linux Weekly News reports that Red Hat acquires Ansible. There are quite a few configuration management tools around, and it was only the matter of time until Red Hat, with all its corporate client...
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Calypso – the new WordPress admin interface
Matt Mullenweg shares some exciting news – WordPress is getting a major overhaul of its admin interface. Completely rewritten in JavaScript, with API support in the backend, it is fast, modern, and...
View ArticleWordPress 4.4 “Clifford” released
This post comes to you from the WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” that was just released. WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” And, have you upgraded yet?
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GitHub Improvements
GitHub has recently announced a whole lot of improvements to their service and functionality. For me personally the following bits were super exiciting. Improvements to the code review Approve or...
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