Sean Michael Kerner

The momentum at the Eclipse Foundation continues to build, with the Helios project releasing 39 open source projects. Totaling more than 39 million lines of code, the release runs the gamut, including Java, JavaScript and PHP IDE projects. Developer.com take a look at the latest from the Helios project. For the past seven years, the […]

The latest Firefox release is out with at least one major enhancement that Mozilla, the open source browser’s managing body, says will make Firefox more stable: out-of-process plugin support. The idea is that by divorcing plugin activity from the core Firefox process thread, ensuring that if a troublesome add-on crashes, it won’t cause the entire […]

Red Hat is poised to report its quarterly numbers, but if recent news emerging from the enterprise Linux vendor is any indication, we’re likely to see continued evidence of Red Hat benefiting from beefed-up partnership efforts and inking new customers as a result. Datamation takes a look at new partnerships, partner support efforts and other […]

Real-time log files contain a wealth of information about enterprises’ data assets, and LogRhythm is betting that there’s a security advantage to be gained by tapping into that well. The security information and event management vendor has updated its core platform to give enterprises greater visibility into their log data, pulling in information from the […]

Is the Internet in peril? Depends on who you ask. But if you talk to officials at ICANN — one of the Internet’s key management bodies — they may be likely to point out the myriad of threats targeting the Net’s reliance on the DNS system. That’s the message coming out of this week’s ICANN […]

From the ‘Good Things Come in Small Packages‘ files: Among the most interesting Mozilla Labs projects that I track (and use) is the Bespin embedded/online web development project. Remember the old Netscape Composer app that used to be part of the big Netscape Suite ? — take that, make it modern, more powerful, browser-based and […]

The need for speed never seems to abate when it comes to computing and communications. Networking companies developed and demonstrated faster Ethernet technology back in 2008, but commercial delivery had to wait for standards approval and compatibility issues to be resolved. Enterprise Networking Planet reports on the latest developments that include two different new Ethernet […]

Consumers, business people, scientists, students – the Internet is playing an increasingly important role in much of our lives and with that rise our dependence on its being available and secure also grows. But the bad guys are out there. Every day, core Internet systems are attacked by those looking for financial gain or simply […]

Some security initiatives are important to specific businesses or industries, but when it’s something core to the very structure of the Internet, anyone concerned with security should take notice. eSecurityPlanet reports on the status of a long-awaited upgrade to the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) including an important digital “key signing” ceremony held this week […]

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms out there, thanks in no small part to being open source. Up to now, it’s been largely confined to just supporting blogging, but with version 3, the numerous volunteers who help develop WordPress

After Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, developers had been wondering what would become of NetBeans, given that Oracle supports rival IDE Eclipse. Well, Oracle has made good on its promise to continue to develop and support NetBeans with the release of version 6.9 of the IDE. With the latest release, NetBeans is offering the JavaFX Composer […]

Subversion’s source code management (SCM) application is a favorite among developers, but couldn’t it be a little simpler? Yes, it turns out, it could. Collabnet, the leading commercial sponsor behind the project, has released Subversion Edge, a new open source application that bundles Subversion SCM with an Apache Web server, as well as a user […]