opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM Quarterly Update
opentaps 1.4 was officially released in March 2010. This release features many new features in CRM, manufacturing, supply chain management, and financial accounting; improved user interface thanks to the Google Web Toolkit; hibernate keyword search; VOIP integration with Asterisk; improved Web security; the opentaps Domain Driven Architecture with Spring framework and hibernate; and upgraded versions of the Apache Tomcat and OFBiz
Blender 2.49 Scripting: Shape Keys, IPOs, and Poses
The Blender API provides us with the means to define IPOs from scratch, enabling the definition of movements not easily re-created by setting key frames by hand. Thus there is more to IPOs than just driving one IPO by another one. Furthermore, Shape keys and poses are examples of (collections of) IPOs that are quite different from, for example, a location IPO. We will encounter both shape keys and poses later on in this article, but we will start off with looking at how we might define an IPO from scratch.
Hewlett-Packard Will Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion
Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to buy Palm Inc., the money-losing handset maker that was once a Silicon Valley icon, for $1.2 billion to challenge Apple Inc. in the smartphone market. Palm’s common shareholders will receive $5.70 a share in cash, a 23 percent premium over the closing price, Hewlett- Packard said in a statement today. Elevation Partners LP, Palm’s biggest investor, gets $485 million for its preferred shares and warrants.
Videos: 8 Presentations from LinuxFest Northwest 2010
With the permission of the presenters, I recorded all of the presentations I attended at the LinuxFest Northwest 2010 conference this past weekend in Bellingham, WA. This was the 11th annual event and it as fantastic. All videos are posted in Ogg Theora format and playable inline in Firefox via the HTML 5 video tag. They are actually streaming from archive.org.
What’s New in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
Ubuntu 10.04, aka Lucid Lynx, is the result of years of continuous work from the open source community and Ubuntu corporate sponsor Canonical. A new version of Ubuntu is released every 6 months, but version 10.04 is a special “long term support” (LTS) release which will be supported for an extended period on both desktops and servers. Lucid Lynx also brings us an incredible amount of changes in both the look and functionality of Ubuntu. Here is a list of the most noticeable changes and new features that you’ll find in desktop edition of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Ubuntu One wasn’t working on my 10.04 box – how I got it going
Now that the Ubuntu One cloud-storage service can sync any directory in the system instead of just things in a Ubuntu One folder, I have been anxious to start using it to sync my files to the cloud for availability not just on any other Ubuntu machines I might set up but also via the Web interface (and hopefully in other OSes, Linux and not, in the future). So I tried to get Ubuntu One going in this newish 10.04 installation. No go. I logged in, but nothing would sync. Perhaps my "situation" is unusual (but there are enough Ubuntu users that it could be more common than I think).
Set up Ubuntu 10.04 Server PV DomU at Xen 4.0 Dom0 (pvops 2.6.32.12 kernel) Dom0 on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server
The procedure bellow in general follows Thiago’s Martins submission to xen-devel mailing list. However,sequence of steps has been changed, /dev/xen/evtchn device hard linked with with pvops kernel, git checkout procedure is more straight forward and one Change-set from xen-4.0-testing.hg back ported to Xen 4.0 to support grub2 notation ‘(hd0,1)’ specific for Ubuntu 10.04 aka Lucid Lynx. The way as Xen 4.0 Dom0 set up worked on Ubuntu 9.10 (04) Servers doesn’t work any longer.
Shuttleworth Clears Ubuntu 10.04 for Liftoff
It’s official: Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support arrives April 29, and this particular blogger was privy to the press conference about it. Canonical Chairman Mark Shuttleworth and CEO Jane Silber discussed the plans and progress of new operating system, and then fielded some Q and A. The key news: More than 80 ISVs are supporting Ubuntu. But here’s what it means for the desktop users and Canonical as a whole…
Account Manager coming to Firefox
Last month Mozilla Labs announced a new concept series on online identity. As part of this exploration, we developed the Account Manager. The Account Manager makes it incredibly easy for users to create new accounts with optional randomly generated passwords, and log into and out of them with just a click. As a web developer, adding support for this feature could take as little as fifteen minutes of hacking (in fact, we’ll mention the first 5 people to add support – read below to learn more.). We want to make signing into websites easier for all Firefox users, and are looking to ship this feature as soon as possible in Firefox.
Bash Associative Arrays
The bash man page has long had the following bug listed: "It’s too big and too slow" (at the very bottom of the man page). If you agree with that, then you probably won’t want to read about the "new" associative arrays that were added in version 4.0 of bash. On the other hand, if you’ve ever used any modern Office Suite and seen code-bloat at it’s finest and just think the bash folks are exaggerating a bit, then read on.