Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Speed Boost‘ files: It’s a busy week for PHP developers with Zendcon going on. Among all the big corporate type news from Zend the other day, was a really interesting tidbit dropped by Zend CEO Andi Gutmans. Gutmans stated during his keynote that his firm has been spending a lot of time working […]

From the ‘huh?’ files: The Red Hat sponsored Fedora Linux distribution pushed out their latest release Fedora 14 codenamed Laughlin this week. Now their turning their attention to the next release and the first matter of business it the release name: LOVELOCK. The way the Fedora naming process works is community members vote on the […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. Developers looking to make the move from the Web to the new generation of cloud-based applications, now have access to what may be familiar tools. As Datamation reports, Zend has introduced a new Zend Framework 1.1 PHP application framework with the […]

Everyone is thinking cloud these days. The people behind the latest edition of the Fedora Linux distribution are no different. Fedora 14 offers support for Amazon EC2 cloud technology. The version also marks the debut of virtualization technology dubbed Spice (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments) Also, as ServerWatch reports, Fedora 14 features OpenSCAP, an […]

From the ‘GNOME has Troubles‘ files:   The GNOME project is a big and diverse one with many contributors. For me though, the face of GNOME for the last two years has been Stormy Peters the executive director and leader the GNOME project. Peters announced today that she’s leaving GNOME for Mozilla. That’s a real […]

There is no free lunch — and that includes open source software. While one of the reasons for the popularity of open source is that it’s freely available (and extensible), that availability is part of a license agreement that covers authorized use of the open source code. Datamation details a compliance program developed by the […]

Google’s open source mobile operating system software has 88 defects that would be considered high risk and possibly exploitable, according to a report from code analysis vendor Coverity, but that’s actually much better than most security experts would have expected. As eSecurity Planet reports, it’s still too early to say whether or not these coding […]

Though there are no major changes from Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) 1.2.1 standard, some of the evolving requirements in the 2.0 specification will require additional action such as the inclusion of a mechanism for ranking vulnerability related risk. The new PCI-DSS version 2.0 specifications debuted provides new clarification for how to […]

Sourcefire isn’t resting on its Intrusion Prevention System laurels. Following the company reported solid third quarter 2010 financial earnings of $36.2 million, he commpany announced it move towards the firewall market. The firewall initiative could serve to expand the addressable market for the company, as well as to stave off competition from rivals into its […]

From the ‘Locks are Bad‘ files: Linus Torvalds released the first RC for the 2.6.37 Linux kernel today, including nearly 10,000 comitts. Yeaah, that’s a lot of code. Perhaps the most noteworthy item at this early stage though is about the final stage of a fix that has been in the working for years in […]

Open source developers and supporters continue to push new frontiers. The latest example is Digium’s Scalable Communications Framework (SCF). As VoIP Planet details, SCF Is designed to give developers the tools for large scale open source deployments. And while SCF is a new project, the article explains why Digium’s well-known Asterisk project for IP-based PBX’s […]

Mozilla has moved quickly to issue a patch for a zero-day vulnerability that had been observed exploiting certain versions of its popular Firefox browser. Mozilla patched the flaw in the 3.5 and 3.6 versions of Firefox about 48 hours after it had been publicly reported, though it had already been observed in the wild, including […]