Released last month by Facebook was their open-source HipHOp "HHVM" 2.0 virtual machine. Benchmarks of HHVM at Phoronix show that the code does live up to Facebook's performance claims...

In preparation for the upcoming release of Qt 5.1, the alpha release of this first major update to the Qt5 tool-kit is now available...

The Darktable team has announced the release of version 1.2 which brings some new features, support for more cameras and bug fixes.

Apparently, native apps have won. We even said so right here on ReadWrite. After all, Facebook apparently likes native more.  Unfortunately, CIOs missed the memo, and the dirty little secret is that most of the world's software, including apps, is written for use, not sale. That means that most of the world's software is not going to follow what Facebook's mobile strategy is, but rather what those stodgy enterprises do. Those stodgy enterprises? They're all in on HTML5. I spent Wednesday afternoon with a who's who of enterprise CIOs and CTOs in New York City, talking about Big Data, cloud and mobile. With the Facebook Phone in mind, I polled the group on its mobile applications. Every single executive - not one exception - was building hybrid HTML5 apps, meaning the bulk of the app is written in HTML5 with a native wrapper to improve performance, add camera access, etc. Every. Single. One. And...