Facebook Speeds up PHP
PHP offers a light-weight runtime for small-to-medium sized webapps. If you are not a PHP developer, you will be surprised to know that PHP doesn’t support multithreading natively, though there are ways to make it … Read more
Open source
World’s Smallest Operating System [BareMetal]
A typical full-fledged OS could ranges from 1-20GB before/after installation. But How small can it really get? Few Megabytes? Kilobytes, perhaps. BareMetal is an open source CLI-based Operating system. The OS is written entirely in … Read more
Open Source Tablet [Touch Book] Kills iPad
From what I heard, Steve Jobs had been working hard to develop a killer device that would change the face of the industry. Well, I blogged live for iPad launch event but I didn’t see … Read more
Open Source MultiTouch Guitar
You want all your gadgets to go multitouch. How about having multitouch musical instruments. I know multitouch piano is very difficult to use, but idea of multi-touch Guitar may not be as bad as it looks … Read more
Open Source GSM Base Station [OpenBTS]
Closed Technologies have had the enough, the future is bound to be open. I can’t think of a stream where Open source has not contributed. In few of the relatively newer streams, like telecom, Open … Read more
Google upgrades to EXT4 FileSystem
EXT4’s large filesystem support and performance improvements made it popular over time. Today, EXT4 supports up to 1 Exbibyte – 260 bytes and files with sizes up to 16 tebibytes – 240 bytes. Usually, these numbers are … Read more
Run your Own Twitter Clone
Twitter created a revolution no one can avoid being part of. The Idea which looked initially to be a vague one came out to be a superpower in Social Networking. Now, a startup open source … Read more
Nobel Peace Prize to Linux Architect?
Nobel Peace Prize is given out to contributors who worked for the betterment of the society by bringing more harmony. Last time U.S Nobel Peace prize went into the hands of Barack Obama. This time, … Read more
Google Go: New Programming language
In the Era where we are surrounded by millions of programming languages, Google gives us a new GO. Go is a new Open Source programming language from Google that aims at performance. The performance we … Read more
Symbian Kernel goes Open Source
Symbian, the largest smartphone OS, was bought by Nokia and converted into Symbian Foundation last year. Nokia Open sourced most of Symbian Foundation and made it a nonprofit organization whose sole goal is the advancement … Read more
Larry Ellison shows Sun-Oracle Benchmarks, hits IBM, offers $10M Prize
Oracle is grabbing huge attraction on it’s annual event: OpenWorld. This year’s OpenWorld means more to Oracle than it, possibly, ever did. This time the hottest Sun-Oracle deal has grabbed whole Industry’s attraction, which many … Read more
Open Source to Purchase 22 Patents from Microsoft to Defend Linux
Open Source lovers will do anything to save Linux’s future. Though Microsoft claims themselves to be Open Source friendly, proof being their 20k lines of code drop for Linux Kernel a month ago, but still … Read more
Java 7 What`s New, Performance Benchmark 1.5 1.6 1.7
Java is one of the language which has overhauled it’s underneath technology ground-up. Even though, the basic concept of running inside JVM holds good, the way JVM handles Objects, Memory management has completely been revamped. … Read more
Sony and Open Source Projects Revolution
Hardware industry, today, doesn’t have many Open Source players. Few of them are Big like Sun Microsystems( now, Oracle). The popular Hardware player, Sony is quietly pushing forward with a minor revolution, based on open … Read more
Velocity vs. JSP – Comparison and Advantages
Today, our web-applications based on java are clunky and harder to maintain. I`ll walk you through – what it is like to develop a web application using a couple of popular tools that are available … Read more