SourceForge has opened nominations for the third annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. For the first time, all open source projects — not just those on SourceForge.net — are eligible. The awards recognize open source projects that have the most supportive community following, and those that the voters believe are built with the highest quality, creativity and ingenuity.
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Karthik Gurumurthy speaks on ‘Wicket, Tapestry and JSF side by side’ at the IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology 2007 held in Oct 2007 in Pune, India. Component based framework build pages from reusable components, the way you build a windows GUI application. The emergence of Microsoft’s ASP.NET and Sun’s JSF is probably testimonial to the fact that Component based Web development is the future.
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Ohio LinuxFest 2006 is taking place on September 30, 2006. Ohio is a free Linux event for professionals and enthusiasts. Spliced Networks announced that it will exhibit at Ohio LinuxFest 2006 in booth #6. At this event, Mark Ramm of TurboGears, will be a guest at the booth. Spliced Networks said, “TurboGears is the equivalent of “Ruby on Rails”, for the Python programming language.”
Lots of open source Content Management Systems are available today, developers and contributors are working very hard to improve performance, design and accessibility. It
Alexander Limi, the main person behind the Plone, recently announced that he has accepted a job offer from Google. He will join their user interface design team. Google has already supported many open source projects through Summer of Code program. It will be interesting to see their approach towards Plone. I believe that its a great news for Plone and only good can come from this.
Coverity, makers of a source code analysis solution, today announced preliminary findings showing that open source developers fixed a software defect every six minutes in the week following Coverity’s analysis for the DHS that established a baseline metric for software quality. In seven days, the defect density for 32 open source projects analyzed dropped from 0.434 defects per thousand lines of code to 0.371 defects. Samba, a widely used open source project used to connect Linux and Windows networks, showed the fastest developer response, reducing software defects in Samba from 216 to 18 in the first seven days.