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This year
2008
WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string
by znarf
& 2 others
And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted pages built for Safari, and so pretended to be Safari. And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.
InfoQ: Microsoft bets on Atom Publishing Protocol as the future direction for Web APIs
by mbertier
& 1 other
(via)
Microsoft switches from the Web Structured, Schema’d & Searchable (Web3S) protocol to Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) for services offered by Microsoft's Live Platform on the Web.
cleverbox - clever-age.org - Open Source Software - Trac
by mbertier
& 1 other
The cleverbox provides an interactive command line shell dedicated to the deployment and maintenance of trac and subversion instances.
It can handle multiple configuration profiles, enabling the deployment of differently flavored type of project (trac configuration and permissions, apache configuration templates, etc).
Project's main objective is to make your life as simple as possible. Thus, it comes with easy installation, easy upgrades and a comprehensive documentation.
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2007
Submerged - Subversion Blog - Subversion Merge Tracking – The...
by mbertier
(via)
Subversion 1.5 will support Merge Tracking.
linux kernel monkey log
by mbertier
(via)
Yes, that's right, the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development.
2006
Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project
by mbertier
(via)
Thanks to Google's sponsorship, we've been able to significantly improve the project's Quality Assurance process by creating a completely automated and distributed testing environment. Every single commit results in BIOS images being built for all mainboards, and tested on real hardware located all over the world. So whenever you want to download a LinuxBIOS image, you can now know that it works on a reference machine before flashing it to your system.
Google and Creative Commons
by mbertier
(via)
Because of the important work Creative Commons accomplished over the past year, Google has decided again to donate $30,000 to their cause. Here's an update on some of the awesome work they've been doing:
Amazon Product Tagging Campaign | DefectiveByDesign.org
by mbertier
(via)
Amazon.com, perhaps the largest internet retailer, has a system of "tagging" products on its US site. You can look at a product and add a tag that describes it. We have started tagging items that contain DRM (Blu-Ray players and DVDs, the Zune, the iPod and more) with the "defectivebydesign" tag.
FloppyHead.com » Blog Archive » Barenaked Ladies successfully stick it to the recording industry
by mbertier
(via)
The files are not encrypted with digital rights management or copy protection software. Artists are slowly migrating to distributing their own content via the internet. This seems like a great idea and should scare the RIAA more than any college student downloading a pirated song. BNL also is offering live recordings from their concert tours. An album is sold for $9.99 for mp3 and $12.99 for FLAC lossless files.
