In this interview, Dr. Jam Jenkins, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Valdosta State University and creator of JavaWIDE, explains how the Java Wiki Integrated Development Environment provides a web-based Java programming environment for the classroom.

The GNU MediaGoblin project was announced just a year ago. The project, to build a decentralized, free software media sharing tool, has been going great guns ever since. To get an idea where the project stands today, we talked with lead developer Chris Webber. Here we share Webber's comments on the history and future of MediaGoblin, new features, and the switch away from MongoDB to SQL.

It is the mystery of mysteries, the one that ranks up there with the Gordian Knot, crop circles, and how many licks does it take to get the center of Tootsie Pop: what is the greatest Linux distro of all?

I've been holding my breath for two years since the last Long-Term Support Ubuntu release, 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Precise Pangolin, was just released so at long last I can breathe again.