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Five Ubuntu Features You Didn’t Know About
Feb 15th
The quest to discover something new and fresh about Ubuntu, which is arguably the world’s most popular and best documented Linux distribution, is an almost ridiculous one to accept and an almost impossible one to fulfill. I felt like the Mission Impossible character, Jim Phelps, as I read the request from my editor. I expected to see the words, “This is your mission, Ken, should you choose to accept it. This email will self-destruct in five seconds” at the end of that message.
Rich Cross-Platform Desktop Applications Using Open-Source Titanium
Oct 7th
Titanium is an open-source platform that enables developers to build rich desktop applications using standard Web technologies. Titanium applications run natively on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. At a high level, Titanium competes directly with Adobe AIR, although it differs from AIR in three major ways. First, Titanium is open source; it’s licensed under the Apache Public License (version 2). Second, Titanium is fully extensible; Titanium extensions can be written using a number of popular languages, including C++, JavaScript, Ruby and Python. Finally, Titanium opens up user interface programming to popular languages like Ruby and Python—a job More >
