Tag: opensource

Greg Stein on Google

But I’ve really been missing out on writing Open Source code. It has been several years since I have significantly contributed code to any Open Source project, and that has been a growing dissatisfaction for me. I’ve been involved with Open Source for over 14 years… it is one of the things that I love to do. My departure from Google is going to allow me to get back into Open Source development. It is going to allow me to travel. And it is going to allow me to explore where I’m going with my new life. I see a world and a lifetime of opportunity with this move, and am tremendously happy about it. And no, I’m not going to be working any time soon. Please feel free to contact me about short-term projects, and I’ll keep it in mind, but I don’t foresee any real interest until at least January.

greg stein moves on

Perl App Engine

I’m happy to announce that the Google App Engine team has given me permission to talk about a 20% project inside Google to to add Perl support to App Engine. To be clear: I’m not a member of the App Engine team and the App Engine team is not promising to add Perl support. They’re just saying that I (along with other Perl hackers here at Google) are now allowed to work on this 20% project of ours out in the open where other Perl hackers can help us out, should you be so inclined.

what a waste of time.

Mondrian Open Sourced

Guido van Rossum, creator of Python and Google employee, has released a version of the internal Google code-checking tool Mondrian via the Python mailing list. The new app is called Code Review and was built with almost all new code on the Django framework. Code Review uses a lot of the same concepts and infrastructure that Mondrian does including Big Table.

so awesome. mondrian makes a huge difference for code reviews.

NanoEngineer

an open-source 3D multi-scale modeling and simulation program for nano-composites with special support for structural DNA nanotechnology. It features an easy-to-use interactive 3D graphical user interface for designing and modeling large, atomically precise composite systems.

Laundering Office

Microsoft has announced that it will – with a European partner – contribute to an open-source project for reading and writing Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio files. The Apache POI API is already used by various open source projects to handle Microsoft Office documents, but work is needed to add Office Open XML support as used by Office 2007 and 2008.

looks like the sourcesense guys are helping microsoft to establish a standard no one wants. not sure that is progress.

VTD-XML

The world’s most memory-efficient (1.3x~1.5x the size of an XML document) random-access XML parser. The world’s fastest XML parser: VTD-XML outperforms DOM parsers by 5x~12x, delivering 150~250 MB/sec per core sustained throughput. The world’s fastest XPath 1.0 implementation.

claims to be way faster than SAX. need to check out