Samsung, Apple Continue to Lead Worldwide Smartphone Market

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July 30, 2014

Samsung’s devices and the iPhone remain the big players in the worldwide smartphone market, but there is intense competition in emerging territories.

Tor Anonymity Service Says Unknown Attackers Compromised Its Network

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The Verge

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July 30, 2014

The Tor encryption service is a high-profile bastion of computer security, but the project appears to have been compromised earlier this year. Today, the Tor Project blog announced that an unknown party likely managed to gather information about people who were looking up hidden services â€” websites that users can operate and visit anonymously, like Silk Road â€” and could theoretically have compromised other parts of the network.

Anyone who used Tor between early February and July 4th of 2014 “should assume they were affected” by the attack, says the Tor team. But they don’t know what exactly that means. The attackers specifically looked for who was retrieving the public keys to hidden services, but they “likely were not able to see any…

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Builder: A New Development IDE Being Built For GNOME

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Phoronix

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July 30, 2014

GNOME Builder is a new integrated development environment (IDE) being developed for building GNOME applications faster and better…

Red Hat Starts Work on 64-bit ARM Servers

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ZDNet

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July 30, 2014

Red Hat and its partners are betting that 64-bit ARM processors are ready for the data center.

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Perl as a Career Option

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The Linux Foundation

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July 30, 2014

Is Perl losing its shine as it now needs to compete with many other alternative programming languages? Can Perl be considered a good career choice today? To find out, we have interviewed an experienced Perl developer and Geekuni founder Andrew Solomon….

Q. Do you see Perl as a good career choice today? In other words, would Perl be something to be considered as a worthwhile career choice today for a recent graduate or someone with no programming experience?

Solomon: These are actually three quite separate questions. The first question – Is Perl a good career choice? Definitely. There are quite a few jobs requiring competence in Perl, and the salary is excellent because Perl developers are hard to find.

La commedia illumina Firenze on the wall of Florence Cathedral, Santa Maria del FioreWhy is it hard to find Perl developers? This is because Perl is very rarely part of a university’s curriculum. To understand why this is, let’s first consider what programming really is. A software developer’s brain works on various levels, like in Dante’s Comedy they design in a very pure and abstract ‘Paradiso’ of algorithms, data types and architectures, descending into the ‘Purgatorio’ of writing code and further into the ‘Inferno’ of bending and corrupting the language to achieve their most ambitious expressions of creativity….

GNOME’s GTK+ Is Still Striving For A Scene Graph, Canvas API

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Phoronix

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July 30, 2014

Besides updates on Wayland support at this week’s GUADEC conference in France was also an update on the work being done for implementing a scene graph within GTK+ itself and exposing a canvas API…

My First Unikernel

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The Linux Foundation

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July 29, 2014

I wanted to make a simple REST service for queuing file uploads, deployable as a virtual machine. The traditional way to do this is to download a Linux cloud image, install the software inside it, and deploy that. Instead I decided to try a unikernel.

Unikernels promise some interesting benefits. The Ubuntu 14.04 amd64-disk1.img cloud image is 243 MB unconfigured, while the unikernel ended up at just 5.2 MB (running the queue service). Ubuntu runs a large amount of C code in security-critical places, while the unikernel is almost entirely type-safe OCaml. And besides, trying new things is fun.

Qt 5.4 Going Into Feature Freeze Next Week With Exciting Changes

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Phoronix

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July 29, 2014

The Qt 5.4 feature freeze is set to go into effect on 8 August with already there being a large number of changes for this next major Qt5 tool-kit release…

Out in the Open: Sandstorm Makes It Easy to Control Your Apps in the Cloud

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Wired

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July 29, 2014

Web apps are convenient, but you don’t have any control over them. You never know if your favorite tool will evaporate when the company goes out of business or, as was the case of Google Reader, simply discontinued.

Of course you can try running your own server loaded up with open source applications, but that’s still a real pain for most non-geeks.

Former Google engineer Kenton Varda and neuroscientist Jade Wang think they’ve come up with way to fix both of these problems. It’s called Sandstorm: an open source project that gives you just as much control over cloud apps as you get on your very own servers, but without the hassles.

Introducing the OpenDaylight Ambassador Program

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OpenDaylight

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July 29, 2014

The growth of the OpenDaylight community has been astounding in the 15 months since launch. It started with just a handful of developers and has climbed to over 220 from a range of backgrounds, including seven student interns from around the globe – all working together to create the future of networking built on open source technologies.

Interest in the project is growing so quickly that we’ve put together an ambassador program to help sustain and grow the worldwide community. We are looking to enlist OpenDaylight experts who know and use the code and who are willing to share that knowledge with others around the world, with the project providing support and resources to enable that.

Ambassador Profile

Someone who is passionate about OpenDaylight and open SDN and recognized for their expertise and willingness to help others learn about the software. Usually hands-on practitioners. Someone who has the characteristics of being helpful, hopeful and humble. People like bloggers, influencers, evangelists who are already engaged with the project in some way. Contributing to forums, online groups, community, etc.