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This is a guest post by Maciej Pasternacki, a Google Summer of Code student who created CL-OpenID. The summer is gone (September doesn’t count as summer), and so is the Google Summer of Code 2008 program. My Summer of Code project was CL-OpenID, an implementation of OpenID for Common Lisp, and its a pleasure to me to announce CL-OpenID version 1.0 Release Candidate 1. I would like to specially thank my mentor Anton Vodonosov. He’s put a lot of effort into this project and I enjoyed a lot working with him.

Nice gallery of the best open source / freely available php projects. Includes screenshots, comments, ratings, and social bookmarking.

Attack code that exploits flaws in the net’s addressing system are starting to circulate online, say security experts.

New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code.

Google recently launched Google Doctype, a wiki-style encyclopedia for web developers of the open web, a “web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more.” Anyone with a Google account can contribute and edit. Currently, the wiki consists of HOWTO articles on web security, DOM manipulation, CSS and style, tips and tricks—in addition to code for developers.  All articles, reference pages and other prose content is licensed CC BY. 

My mind is just too accustomed to RDBMS engines to accept that I can't have GROUP BY in my shell pipes.

Why does console refuse to die?

Back at the Linux Foundation Austin Summit, VIA had announced plans to develop a new open-source initiative in a similar fashion what AMD has been doing. However, in the weeks following that they haven't done much for the open-source community. read more

In the beginning, there was Linus Torvalds, a single developer who put together the original Linux kernel. Fast forward to 2008 and Torvalds is no longer the lone Linux developer.

Really funny name of post, isn't it? It should mean something to people who understand Croatian: it's virtual computer. This fun toy begin it's existence as Orao emulator. In the process, I wrote 6502 and Z80 emulator (actually only perl xs bindings for existing cpu emulators) and implemented Orao, Galaksija and Galeb using it. Various machines are in different stage of usability. Orao emulation is working (without tape support), Galaksija is too slow to be useful (also doesn't have tape) and Galeb doesn't have keyboard or tape support. I would be very grateful for hardware information about those machines if you can spare some time writing them.

Initially created in 2006 this handy tool is best described with original commit message: IRC bot which replace human memory Here is a quick run-down through available features:

• web archive with search
• irc commands: last, grep/search, stat, poll/count
• tags// in normal irc messages (tagcloud, filter by tag, export as RSS feed)
• announce /me messages to Twitter (yes, lame, but that was a year ago) tags are available as html links for embedding (in wikis)
• RSS feed from messages with tags (also nice for embedding)
• irssi log import (useful for recovery

It used to be there were only a couple of players in town who combed through software code, specifically looking for open source packages and licenses: Black Duck and Palamida. A year ago, we figured there was plenty of room for additional players, but we had no idea how many companies would end up coming to the open source code scanning table.

There are a total of 21,652 packages installed on my home workstation, an AMD64 single core processor box which has been in use since March 2006. It runs the testing stream of Debian. That's a lot of code, all of it free as in beer.