RubyForge hits 1000 projects
Thats right, since the release of Ruby on Rails the RubyForge projects homepage has seen steady growth of 4 per day and now has over 1000 hosted projects.
Archive for November, 2005
MySQL AB considering move from InnoDB
Over a month ago Oracle bought out the Innobase Oy company and as many of you may know MySQL AB uses the Innobase code to power its recent MySQL product.MySQL is pluggable and so could technically shift to another open source database platform with relative ease but Inno’s offering was chosen specifically for its suitability [...]
Django @ PyCon
Django have confirmed yesterday that they’ll be there in force with 2 presentations at the Feburary 2006 PyCon. The two talks that will be given are: An introduction and tutorial on using Django. A presentation on using Django for web development with some core philosophies and code samples. This will be given by the lead [...]
Firefox 1.5RC3 Released
A few days old but Mozilla released their third and final release candidate on the 17th. Shortly after a review of the known bugs was instigated. There have been numerous complaints from the community of a stagnant and increasing number of bugs left to rot in the bowls of Bugzilla. Many of these can often [...]
Haskell Nightmares
Has anyone else had experience with this language? Haskell is a functional language and as such a total mystery to me. I did try and I’m far from an idiot but I’m afraid Haskell never gripped me and in fact actively repulsed me in its strange ways. In my university years the tutor was a [...]
