Google Chrome has interesting implications for the web and technology, but how does it work as a browser? Scott Berkun's initial review of the browser as only a browser is the most interesting.
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Some projects are too big, too complex, or too well-entrenched to have credible competition. They often stagnate. Is OpenGL 3.0 falling into the same trap?
Luke Kanies, author of the Puppet configuration management tool, discusses how to fix what's wrong with system administration and why shell scripts and ssh are the wrong tools to keep your systems up to date.
The old client-server application versus client-only application debate is back on the Web, thanks to Ajax and RIA technologies. It's missing a long-forgotten third contender, however -- one which had significant drawbacks and very significant advantages.
When Steve Jobs implied he wants Safari to take over as the world's dominant browser, I thought he meant on the desktop. I was wrong; it took an iPhone app to make me realize free software needs to move into new ecosystems to help users take control of their computing and their data.
Microsoft's Sam Ramji promised to answer the tough questions about his company's open source efforts. Here's the big one: will Microsoft fix its open source patent license?
The question about open source in the enterprise is no longer "if", but "how". Bernard Golden is the author of a new O'Reilly research report about adoption statistics and usage of open source in professional development and business -- who are hiring more open source people than ever.
Damian Conway has a well-deserved reputation as the mad scientist of Perl. His opening night keynote at OSCON 2008 combined Perl programming, the difference engine, quantum mechanics, and general relativity to produce variables which travel backwards in time.
Perl hacker and Googler Brad Fitzpatrick just announced a Google-supported, community-driven project to support the Perl language on Google's App Engine.
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