Stunted Growth: Subsidies and Stagnation in the Software Tools Market By Steve Benz

On the face of it, there should be a great deal of money in the software tools business, but, surprisingly, the money really isn’t there for small businesses. This article will show that the ultimate cause of the deficiency is the fact that most of the large development tools are subsidized by the sales of Operating Systems and hardware. These subsidies have the effect of diminishing the profit potential of any pure software development tool vendor and thus remove the incentive to create.

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Guild Wars – The Internet is for Porn

This is the ORIGINAL “The Internet is for Porn” spoof video.

http://www.youtube.com/v/qPTnxrZeCWE?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata

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Iomega StorCenter 400e Expansion Chassis

Iomega announced an affordable Network Attached Storage (NAS) option for its StorCenter Pro NAS 400r Server, called the Iomega StorCenter Pro NAS 400e Expansion Chassis. This new add-on is targeted at the small-and-medium business segment. Users can add up to three 400e Expansion Chassis units to a Iomega StorCenter Pro NAS 400r server, with each expansion adding 1 terabyte of storage space to the host NAS device

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Alienware MJ-12 7500 Desktop

Alienware is known to have the most powerful computers around whether it be desktops or notebooks they build mean machines that are truly out of this world (pun intended). They are calling their newest desktop the Alienware MJ-12 7500 “the ultimate dream machine with innovative performance and graphics capability.” Sounds great, you’ll have to find out for youself (unless Alienware wants to send us a review machine that we can keep afterwards). It looks pretty alien based on the specs that include dual-core AMD Opteron processors, NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics card, and Liquid Cooling.

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Alienware MJ-12 7500 Desktop

The Global Development Interview Series: Scotland, with Craig Murphy By Donna L. Davis

It’s going to take us awhile to get all the way around the world, but here we are at stop #3, with Scottish software developer Craig Murphy, who shares his experience of software development life in Scotland with interviewer Donna L. Davis.

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The Global Development Interview Series: Scotland, with Craig Murphy By Donna L. Davis

Elias Torres joins the Roller project

Warm welcome to Elias Torres , Roller’s newest committer. From Dave’s blog: Welcome to Elias, who brings the Roller committer count up to seven (in chronological order: Dave, Matt, Lance, Anil, Henri, Allen, and now Elias). Elias runs one of the biggest Roller installs in the world at IBM and he’s got lots of cool feature ideas and practical suggestions for improving Roller.

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Places to Intervene in a System By Donella H. Meadows

Here we continue the developer.* Systems and Software series, in which we explore the topics of general systems thinking and cybernetics to discover how “systems” concepts can help software professionals in the day-to-day work of creating, deploying, and improving software. Click here for the full article.

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Places to Intervene in a System By Donella H. Meadows

Roller Mailing Lists moving to Apache

As part of our ongoing move to Apache, we’re leaving the old SourceForge mailing lists behind and switching to new new mailing-lists hosted by the Apache Incubator. Subscription instructions: Roller Developer mailing list Subscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-dev-subscribe@incubator.apache.org Unsubscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-dev-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org Roller User mailing list Subscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-user-subscribe@incubator.apache.org Unsubscribe by sending email to mailto:roller-user-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org

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Welcome new committer Allen Gilliland

Sun’s Allen Gilliland has joined the Roller team, one of six committters who have rights to commit changes to Roller’s source code repository. Allen started working on Roller a couple of months ago and has already developed a complete new metadata driven configuration system for Roller (due out in the June Roller 1.2 release), which simplifies Roller installation and makes it easier for developers to add new configuration properties to the system.

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Welcome new committer Allen Gilliland

Roller 1.1 released

Roller 1.1 has been released. The release features Podcasting support , bug fixes, and some minor improvements. You can find the files in Roller’s Java.Net download space or via the links below: roller-1.1.tar.gz : Roller 1.1 web application roller-src-1.1.tar.gz : Roller 1.1 source code roller-tools-1.1.tar.gz : Roller 1.1 dependencies (jars needed to build Roller source) Once you’ve downloaded Roller refer to the docs to install and use Roller: Roller Installation Guide Roller User Guide Roller 1.1 Change List Run into problems during installation

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