Development by Davis: “Government and library open data using Creative Commons tools” plus 6 more

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• Government and library open data using Creative Commons tools
• ASP.NET: Introducing the Navigation for ASP.NET Web Forms Framework
• Cutting Edge: Understanding the Power of WebSockets
• WordPress 3.4 Beta 4
• AMD and GameFly Team Up to Get Gamers Playing for Less
• AMD Launches Open Compute Project Platform Specification for Financial Services
• Powershell / COM / Late Binding

Government and library open data using Creative Commons tools Posted: 03 May 2012 05:00 AM PDT The last few months has seen a growth in open data, particularly from governments and libraries. Among the more recent open data adopters are the Austrian government, Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, Italian Chamber of Deputies, and Harvard Library. Read more... read more

ASP.NET: Introducing the Navigation for ASP.NET Web Forms Framework Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT May 2012 Take a fresh look at Web Forms with this new navigation framework that eliminates tight coupling and codebehind while providing for unit-tested data-bound code and many other advantages—enough to make an ASP.NET MVC application green with envy, according to creator Graham Mendick.

Cutting Edge: Understanding the Power of WebSockets Posted: 30 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT May 2012 Achieving zero-lag connectivity between Web clients and servers requires going beyond the HTTP protocol. This is just what the WebSocket Protocol provides, and Dino Esposito explains how it's used and what it does.

WordPress 3.4 Beta 4 Posted: 02 May 2012 07:52 PM PDT Less bugs, more polish, the same beta disclaimers. Download, test, report bugs. Thanks much. /ryan #thewholebrevitything This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

AMD and GameFly Team Up to Get Gamers Playing for Less Posted: 01 May 2012 12:00 AM PDT AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced an agreement with GameFly, Inc., to give gamers who leverage the quality and performance of AMD CPUs and APUs easier access to GameFly's leading online video game rental and PC download services for a limited time. Gamer...

AMD Launches Open Compute Project Platform Specification for Financial Services Posted: 02 May 2012 12:00 AM PDT At the Open Compute Summit, AMD (NYSE: AMD) – a member of Open Compute and a leader in driving open standards -- today unveiled a flexible and innovative Open Compute Project server platform specification, codenamed "Roadr...

Powershell / COM / Late Binding Posted: 02 May 2012 03:24 PM PDT Hi! I've run into the problem that Powershell can't call methods on COM objects when theres no type lib available. I'm trying to disable macros in Word like this, but can't because it uses IDispatch: $word.WordBasic.DisableAutoMac ros(1) Could this be solved by using Marshal.GetIDispatchForObject? Is there

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Development by Davis: “History of open source in government” plus 3 more

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• History of open source in government
• Roche: From oversight to insight
• Do you use Creative Commons licenses?
• AMD and PTC® Team Up to Provide Advanced Graphics Performance in Creo® Parametric 2.0

History of open source in government Posted: 02 May 2012 06:00 AM PDT It is difficult to imagine the Federal government moving in one well-coordinated direction on any matter, and so it has been with the adoption of open source software. Some agencies were early adopters, especially the academic and research communities. As it did in universities, open source adoption in the US government originated in research settings, where sharing and collaboration were already part of the culture of pedagogy. In this way, the government had been using and creating open source software even before it was called "open source." Other agencies and departments have been more conservative, for a variety of reasons, and are only just now bringing open source software into their operations. With this in mind, the history of open source in the US Government is best understood as a series of individual stories that have collectively lead to the pervasive adoption of open source we see today. Read more... read more

Roche: From oversight to insight Posted: 02 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT Can a company bust bureaucracy by liberating people to manage themselves? A team of managers from Roche Pharmaceuticals set out to prove this point through a management experiment—and reaped big dividends in the process. Read more... read more

Do you use Creative Commons licenses? Posted: 02 May 2012 02:00 AM PDT Do you use any Creative Commons licenses on materials you, your company, or your institution publishes? Yes No Creative Commons provides a set of copyright licenses and tools "that give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work." The idea is to make sharing on the Internet more straightforward and understandable, so people do it more. Read more... read more

AMD and PTC® Team Up to Provide Advanced Graphics Performance in Creo® Parametric 2.0 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:00 AM PDT AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced its collaboration with PTC®, a leading provider of product development software solutions and services, to enable 900%1 faster performance in 3D transparency in PTC® Creo® Parametric 2.0 and shaded 3D frame rates and int...

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Development by Davis: “Delivering innovation overnight--What it takes to do new things fast” plus 1 more

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Delivering innovation overnight--What it takes to do new things fast Posted: 01 May 2012 06:00 AM PDT What leader today doesn't want more innovation? Yet, producing more (of anything) inside an organization generally leads to more process, which smothers individual creativity and all-too-often kills organizational innovation. Innovation isn't about structuring a process to lead to an outcome so much as it's about creating space--both elbow room, the space to roam free of bureaucratic rules and red tape, and head room, the freedom to see differently, think wildly, and aim higher. The leaders who generate more creative energy and innovation are always wrestling with the question: How do we design in more slack? Or, how do we cultivate an environment and support work that enlists people as drivers of their own destiny and inventors of the company's future? Read more... read more

Can an iPad be used to promote free and open source software? Posted: 01 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT I have many Linux-using friends who have no plans whatsoever to buy an iPad, and I respect them for having that stance. They are opposed to closed, locked, proprietary systems. I share their general values, but have chosen to buy a third-generation iPad and plunge headlong into creating iBooks using iBooks Author. I see the iPad as a exquisite tool for getting the word out about FOSS - free and open source software. Apple is expected to sell 65 million iPads (or more) in 2012, according to analyst Canaccord Genuity. That's 65 million people I can inform about FOSS opportunities, such as the amazing Inkscape vector drawing program and OpenShot video editing program. Inkscape already runs well on Mac and Windows, and OpenShot is coming to Mac and Windows, so why not seize the chance to inform people about these programs? Read more... read more

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