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Mozilla Puts a Development Environment Into the Browser with WebIDE

Browsers have long contained development tools to help debug and diagnose problems when authoring Web content, but Mozilla is taking Firefox to the next level. Nightly builds of the browser now contain a development environment, WebIDE, for creating, testing, and deploying Firefox OS apps.

With WebIDE, developers will be able to create new applications from scratch, package them for distribution, deploy them to both the Firefox OS simulator and real Firefox OS hardware, and remotely debug them—all from within the browser and without the use of additional tools.

Read more at Ars Technica

Is Mozilla Behind a New Chromecast Competitor?

While the details are unclear at this point, it looks like Mozilla may have some role in delivering a competitor to Google’s popular Chromecast dongle, based on the Firefox OS platform. Several sites have been reporting that Mozilla has been secretly developing the streaming device in conjunction with a partner. 

A Twitter post by a Mozilla developer evangelist helped fuel the headlines, but Recode and other sites are reporting that Mozilla is adamant that it is not working on the device directly, although a partner could be.

 

Read more at Ostatic

Panasonic Launches 5-inch Rugged Handheld Tablets

The latest Toughpad iterations are the first devices in the Toughpad line to offer optional voice connectivity, Panasonic said.

Elementary OS Changes Its Codename from Isis to Freya

The upcoming elementary OS Isis has changed its name to Freya due to an unfortunate coincidence with the terrorist group that is now very active in the Middle East.

Read more at Softpedia.

Clang Is Already Working On “Highly Experimental” C++1z Support

With LLVM developers already having lots of C++1y / C++14 support implemented, they have begun working on “highly experimental” support for C++1z — the next major revision to the C++ programming language anticipated for release in 2017…

Read more at Phoronix

Trending Towards Ultra-Dense Servers

Ultra dense serversIn late 2010 and throughout 2011, however, we noticed a shift in the HPC market as new workloads such as digital media, various financial services applications, new life sciences applications, on-demand cloud computing services and analytics workloads made their way onto HPC servers. We are now seeing another new trend developing in the HPC space with the introduction of ultra-dense servers.

 
Read more at insideHPC

My first Linux based robot

My Robot

I successfully connected my BeagleBone Black running Angstrom Linux to a Dagu Rover 5 Tracked Chassis using the Rover 5 motor driver board.  I then wrote Python client/server scripts that allowed me to control the robot over a Bluetooth RFComm connection.  The blog posts listed below document the steps I took to create the robot, from start to finish, with videos and images.

 

I just got my BeagleBoard Black, now what?

My first working robot, It’s Alive

My first working robot, It’s Alive – Part 2

My first working robot, It’s Alive – Part 3

 

Opera 24 On Chromium Now Available For Linux

In early 2013 it was announced Opera would be switching to Google’s Chromium Engine over its own internal web rendering engine it had been using up to that point. They switched to Google’s forked WebKit engine and for about a year now have been doing new Windows releases while Linux was left out…

Read more at Phoronix

Spyware Subsidizes High-End Android Phone

We’re all used to crapware subsidizing Windows PCs. Now firmware-based spyware is subsidizing Android phones. Here’s what to look for.

To Get Developer Adoption Today You Have To Build a Community

Michael Williams, BIRT Product Evangelist & Forums Manager at Actuate, outlines some key points to keep in mind for building your own open source community.

Read more at DevX