Html parser for Java
For my graduation project, I needed to parse HTML documents, in order to strip the HTML tags and formatting (I wanted to index them using Lucene). After some searching on the Internet, I decided to use...
View ArticleWordPress source compromised
It seems that the source code package of WordPress 2.1.1 was compromised by a hacker. Some files, mainly related to RSS-feed generation, was injected with code which opens a backdoor. Obviously, this...
View ArticleOpen source photography
For people who think the only solution to have decent photo editing software, is to use a pirated version of Adobe Photoshop or Painshop Pro, there is a site called ‘Open Source Photography’. The site...
View ArticleSome not-so-interesting stuff
While browsing a website, I came across an article about how Microsoft is scared for the upcoming domination of Linux. The article dates from 1998, which is nine years ago. While the domination of...
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Gnome 2.20, MySQL 6
Recently, I did some reading on new software releases. Last week, a new version of Gnome was released which was not unexpected, considering the fact that Gnome has the aim to release a new version...
View ArticleWordPress 2.3 released
This week, the WordPress development team released version 2.3 of WordPress. I did not upgrade yet, because I didn’t have the time yet. Because I’m not very enthusiastic on the source code of...
View ArticleZDNet interview with Michael Meeks
ZDNet published an interview with Novell employee Michael Meeks, who is working on OpenOffice.org and Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. Intersting read, though not much news.
View ArticleMicrosoft winner of ‘Best campaigner against OOXML’
I think this post is rather funny. I think it is also noteworthy that Microsoft is also the owner of a ISO standard proposal with the largest number of comments…
View ArticleNovell creates OpenOffice.org fork
It seems that Novell created a fork of OpenOffice.org. The cause of this action is the fact that the Sun Microsystems currently controls the entire development process of OpenOffice.org and requires...
View ArticleThe Gimp 2.4
The developers of the Gimp project released version 2.4 today. It seems to contain a lot of improvements, including a tool to extract foreground objects from their background (like Photoshop can...
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