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Million Dollar Challenge
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Beyonce and Eva Longoria as lesbians next film
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[SpikeThurs] Matt interviews AJAX framework creators, IBM Rational donates to Eclipse, MSN to talk to YahooIM
posted Thu 13 Oct 05
IBM's Rational Software arm is preparing to donate up to 15% of its code base to the Eclipse foundation. Project Beacon will help developers to structure and follow software development methodologies. Coming largely from their Rational Unified Process line the inclusion to Eclipse is to create a wider acception and allow developers to modify the framework to accept other practices.
SpikeSource's Matt Harrison blogs about his latest interest, AJAX. He's been checking out the various frameworks for AJAX's and being a python lover he has even ported some of them to be used with python. Matt has also conducted mini interview's with one of the framework creators; Alex Russell of dojo, and Bob Ippolito of MochiKit. An interesting read.
Who says Microsoft doesn't nicely with others? Yesterday they announced a major agreement with Yahoo to join up their instant messanging networks to create one large playing area. In other words, users of MSN will be able to talk/IM directly to Yahoo IM without obtaining another identity. AOL is still the market leader with 56% of the IM traffic, but rumours are rife that Google are in talks to buy a major stake in them, or buy them out right.
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