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LinuxWorld.com Feature: Search-driven development
Search-driven development: Five reasons why search is your most powerful tool – LinuxWorld, 01/29/07
Wait! Keep reading! This is not yet-another-methodology that promises to solve all of your programming problems. What we’ll be discussing in this article is why search has become a critical tool for developers.
Search driven development (SDD) is an easy label that we can put on a simple fact of life in modern software development: searching for technical information is a large, costly part of creating and using information technologies.
This week’s Linux news
IT buyers tapping the brakes – LinuxWorld, 01/31/07
Expectations for technology investments in 2007 continue to fall among IT executives planning their future budgets, according to the latest Goldman Sachs survey.
lguest: Spartan virtualization for Linux – LinuxWorld, 01/31/07
Dijkstra said, “Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability,” but really, a virtualization system in 6,000 lines of code?
Turbolinux’s Wizpy multimedia player coming in February – LinuxWorld, 01/31/07
Japan’s Turbolinux will begin selling its Wizpy Linux-based multimedia player in February. As a bonus, the device can also be used to boot a PC into the Linux OS, allowing users to access their files in their own working environment on almost any PC.
Oracle’s ‘Web 2.0’ interface coming – LinuxWorld, 01/31/07
Oracle plans to release WebCenter Suite, a product for building application interfaces that incorporate content from a variety of sources as well as “Web 2.0” tools such as blogs and wikis.
The Linux Foundation forms from two separate standards groups – LinuxWorld, 01/31/07
While divisions and differences rage on among Linux and open source vendors, two Linux-focused standards and technology organizations recently joined forces, at least ostensibly, for the betterment of the open source operating system and community.
Asterisk maker names new CEO – LinuxWorld, 01/30/07
Digium has named a new CEO to replace the open source PBX maker’s founder, Mark Spencer, who will now become the company’s chairman and CTO. Spencer wrote the code for the PBX, known as Asterisk.
Microsoft and rivals jostle over open doc standard – LinuxWorld, 01/30/07
European businesses are being urged to fight against the imposition of a Microsoft-led standard that, it is claimed, will cripple competition and lead to increased costs for business.
Oracle updates business intelligence suite – LinuxWorld, 01/30/07
Oracle this week is shipping an updated version of its business intelligence suite that enhances integration with both Oracle and non-Oracle products.
Peugeot Citroën revs up 20,000 Suse Linux desktops – LinuxWorld, 01/30/07
European car manufacturing giant PSA Peugeot Citroën has agreed to one of the Continent’s largest-ever deployments of open-source Linux software on desktop computers.
Sony settles with FTC over CD rootkits – LinuxWorld, 01/30/07
Sony BMG Music Entertainment Music has agreed to settle charges with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission related to the company’s inclusion of problematic copy-protection software in music CDs, the FTC said Tuesday.
Oracle continues its Linux power play – LinuxWorld, 01/29/07
Oracle, not backing down from its Linux power play, recently released a new management tool aimed at enterprise Linux server administrators.
Renewed 3Com router push has open source slant – LinuxWorld, 01/29/07
3Com this week plans to make a fresh run at Cisco and Juniper with an enterprise network strategy focused on embedding security, management and VoIP services from itself and others into its routers and switches.
Open source projects to showcase identity integration – LinuxWorld, 01/29/07
The leaders of two open source projects next week plan to showcase how they are using their services to integrate common identity platforms and provide developers with hooks to link their applications to those platforms.
Attack of the Pod Penguins 6: MP3 Basics – LinuxWorld, 01/29/07
We’ve passed the halfway point in this series of articles on podcasting with open source tools.
The challenge of finding technical information – LinuxWorld, 01/29/07
Finding all of the code and technical information that exists is actually a bit more difficult that one might think at first glance. Even in the world of the text-based, general purpose search engines there is a lot of content that is hard to get at.
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Why don’t companies buy more secure software? Bruce Schneier, 02/01/07
Or at least why don’t companies buy less insecure software? LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit keynote speaker Bruce Schneier talks about the ecoomics of security and what the company security person can do about demand for insecure applications, on LinuxWorld Podcast.
