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Pyjamas - Python Applications for Desktop and Web
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:11:56 GMT
Leading free software application widget sets include GTK2, QT4 and
wxWidgets. Web application development is still considered to be a bit
of a black art, with knowledge of CSS, javascript and AJAX trickery
making many side-step HTML completely and go for Adobe Flash or
Silverlight to get that "rich media" experience that typical Web apps
entirely lack. And, worse, writing apps that run - unmodifed - on both
the desktop and the web is impossible if you want to stick to Free
Software development principles and ethics.
AJAX "toolkits" as they are known, such as YUI, Google Web Toolkit and Pyjamas are the
"middle-ground" to making Web application development look and feel that
much more like you're developing a real desktop application. In the
case of GWT and Pyjamas, you're even programming in Java or Python,
respectively, and the tool is actually a javascript compiler! The next
logical step is to ask the question, "If these toolkits look,
feel and smell like Desktop applications development APIs, why are they
not *actually* Desktop applications development APIs?". Pyjamas-Desktop
is the answer to that question, effectively making Pyjamas a de-facto
standard for cross-browser, cross-platform, cross-desktop,
cross-environment and, ultimately, a cross-widget-set Free Software
applications development API.
Finally, there's a way for free software
developers to write applications that run - unmodified - as both a web
app and a desktop app.
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Free Software Supporter, August 2008
Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:53:32 GMT
I'm Matt Lee, Campaigns Manager at the Free Software Foundation. Here
with another month of news from the world of GNU and the FSF.
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software
Foundation's monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you
and 7,824 other activists.
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In this issue:
Why free software and Apple's iPhone don't mix
Play Ogg!
Pizza Party for friends of the FSF in San Francisco
Portland associate membership meeting recap
Give Apple the iPhone Challenge
Help defeat Microsoft's OOXML format!
Atheros releases free software wireless driver
Yahoo Music -- the bad dream of DRM continues
GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
Take action!
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Free Software Supporter, July 2008
Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:51:14 GMT
I'm Matt Lee, Campaigns Manager at the Free Software Foundation. Here
with another month of news from the world of GNU and the FSF.
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software
Foundation's monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you
and 7,824 other activists.
Encourage your friends to subscribe and help
us build an audience by
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Miss an issue? You can catch up on back issues too.
In this issue:
It's not the Gates, it's the bars
Act on ACTA!
Fight the Canadian DMCA!
Rhapsody and Naxos go DRM free
Refusing Digital Monitoring Policies
5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G
autonomo.us activist group to focus on freedom in network services
identi.ca is autonomo.us
GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
Take action!
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Free Software Supporter, June 2008
Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:42:53 GMT
I'm Matt Lee, Campaigns Manager at the Free Software Foundation. Here
with the first of what will be a regular posting each month of news from
the world of GNU and the FSF. Thanks to Steven for giving us the
opportunity to post this here.
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software
Foundation's monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you
and 7,824 other activists.
Encourage your friends to subscribe and help
us build an audience by
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Miss an issue? You can catch up on back issues too.
In this issue
New FSF store
Farewell Justin, Hello Danny
DRM elimination crew at the Apple Store launch
Savannah adds Subversion, Mercurial
Freedom and privacy in the cloud: a call for action
Boycott Windows Media Center!
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry
Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF speeches
Take Action with the FSF
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A hard problem worth solving
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:01:59 GMT
There's an ongoing debate about whether
a free/open source project needs to be "organic" to be worthwhile,
where "organic" is (arguably) defined as a project which the first
release included source, and is generally characterized as by a
distributed development team with no single company truly in control,
and "inorganic" is generally code that started off life as a proprietary
effort. I'd like to argue that making "inorganic" open source work is a
big challenge worth tackling.
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The Myth that Content Management is easy
Thu, 15 May 2008 19:10:27 GMT
The Myth
Content Management is easy. You download one of the numerous systems
available, plug-in your data. Something magical happens (???) and out
comes a professional looking and operating website. This obviously
manages all of your content from all different sources with ease. All
you have to do is make a template and you’re done! If this sounds like
something you’ve heard and are suspiciously weary of. You should be,
because it’s all snake oil! If it was that easy I would probably quit my
job and go study law. Since it is not, let us continue first by giving a
brief background on what content management is.
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GNU and FSF News for May 2008
Thu, 8 May 2008 21:24:06 GMT
Skype fought the GPL and the GPL won. The OLPC XO project abandons free
software just as RMS switches to an XO; RMS not happy. New monthly
newsletters from the FSF and FSFE. GNOME and KDE want to have a joint
development conference in 2009. GNOME and GCC conferences coming up
later this year. Plus all the usual news: more GPL v3 conversions, HURD
news, GNOME news, GCC news, and more.
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Rsync on Steroids
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:33:38 GMT
Rsync is an incredibly
powerful tool that synchronises anything from a single file to an entire
hierarchical filesystem, over a network. Unlike many other
synchronisation methods, rsync will use the outdated copy of a file to
save on network traffic (resulting in anything up to 99% optimisation).
Rsync the implementation
however is restricted to only Posix systems (such as Linux, Cygwin and
*BSD), and, worse, its implementation can only perform operations on
Posix-based filesystems. This seems somewhat puzzling, and, as part
of the continued Tech Fusion series, this
article will outline some of the amazingly powerful things that could be
done with rsync... if it had a VFS layer.
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Apologies to Pizza!
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:46:16 GMT
informal though this is, it's important enough to say as an article.
i've been keeping an eye on the series currently being written and some
of my comments - most notably to Pizza - indicate that i'm "jumping up
and down". so Pizza - many apologies! :)
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Distributed Debian Distribution Development
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:50:40 GMT
As part of the Tech Fusion Outline Series,
this article describes some additions to the Debian Distribution model
which, if implemented, would have the benefits of making Debian,
the Debian Development and deployment entirely independent of
Server-based Infrastructure.
The brief outline will be expanded in this dedicated article, pointing
out how tieing together components and technology that already exists
would be useful not only for Debian but also for other purposes, such
as video and audio media distribution. (A method of payment for
work on Debian or other media is not within the scope of this article
but is easily conceivable). This article therefore explains how
and why Debian Distribution Development could go "Distributed".
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