Sean Michael Kerner

The open source market is changing, and so is ActiveState. The firm has rolled out a host of changes to its pricing and support models for the dynamic languages Python, Perl and Tcl. Developer.com takes a look at how the new policies will affect developers, and what ActiveState’s goals are for the open source community. […]

The leader in enterprise networking, Cisco, posts another strong quarter as it foresees improvement in global IT spending just around the corner. Key to the success are its switching platforms, and its Nexus 5000 and 7000 in particular. Enterprise Networking Planet has the story. The global economic recovery, at least in terms of network spending, […]

From the ‘Interesting Ways to Use Twitter‘ files: Jonathan Schwartz  the one-time leader of the now extinct Sun Microsystems was a trailblazer with his blog in the early days. And on his way out of Sun, it wasn’t his blog that blazed his trail – it was Twitter. In a late night message (or early […]

From the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to Webservers‘ files: As of today the Apache 1.3 HTTP Server is at its official End of Life with its 1.3.42 release, eight years after its successor Apache 2 debuted. That’s along time for a ‘legacy’ tech isn’t it? Well yeah, but Apache 1.3 isn’t just any legacy tech, it’s the […]

Cisco Systems is expected to report solid sales and earnings after the bell Wednesday. Enterprise Networking Planet has the full preview and takes a closer look at what the network-equipment maker’s earnings and forecast means for the rest of the IT industry. Is the market for networking gear in recovery? It’s a question that will […]

With Windows XP still the most-used version of Windows, attacks against the aging OS are no laughing matter. eSecurity Planet has a report on a potential threat that uses Internet Explorer — a common target for hackers — to give an outsider unauthorized access to your XP system. It’s a familiar tune that we’ve all […]

There’s a healthy array of choices in the world of code management services for the open source world. CVS the first big name one but others have surpassed it. In the case of Codesion, it’s emerging from CVS’s shadow. Developer.com finds out more. There was a time when CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) dominated the open […]

After kicking the tires for six months, Facebook thinks its HipHop PHP runtime is ready for prime time. The social networking colossus says it’s aiming to bring the open source project to scale, rather than fork the language. Developer.com hears from Facebook’s open programs manager on details of the release, which includes a new Web […]

Social networking sites are a goldmine for hackers looking to score users’ personal information. The fact that the majority of people using online banking sites reuse the same password for Facebook and other sites came as surprise to some security experts. eSecurity Planet takes a closer look at Internet users’ sloppy habits and the risks […]

Adobe Flash is one of the most popular applications used by hackers to infect individual machines with all types of malware. eSecurity Planet takes a closer look at why one security researcher is concerned the application will also be used to attack Web sites and Web browsers in the future. Adobe’s Flash technology has been […]

From the ‘Where’s Fennec?’ Files: Developing a browser for mobile devices is no easy task, just ask the good people at Mozilla. Late last week, Mozilla released Firefox Mobile 1.0, but don’t run to your Apple, Android or Blackberry AppStore just yet it is only available for the Nokia N900 and its Linux-based Maemo platform. […]

From the ‘Fastest Browser to version 10 Wins!‘ files: What up with Google’s numbering scheme for Chrome? The browser is just over a year old and Chrome version 4 was just release last month as a stable product. Instead have a 4.5 version, Chrome is now pushing ahead with version 5 which became available to […]