Sean Michael Kerner

No, I didn’t attend the massive Hollywood premiere of Star Wars The Force Awakens last night, though I wanted too. Like make others, I watched the StarWars.com live feed of the red carpet and tuned into to multiple Periscope feeds as they popped up. With such a massive premiere (all three big theaters on Hollywood […]

From the ‘one less smartphone OS’ vendor files: Mozilla’s Firefox OS is no more. Mozilla is now confirming that it is ending the development of its open-source Firefox OS mobile operating system. Denelle Dixon-Thayer, Chief Legal and Business Officer at Mozilla stated: “We are proud of the benefits Firefox OS added to the Web platform […]

The first Raspberry Pi began a computing revolution, making it easier than ever before to buy and build a small computing device. As is often the case in computing, the first device was followed up by increasingly more powerful devices, with additional cost. Raspberry Pi however isn’t about profit, it’s about use. As such the […]

BARCELONA, Spain – After two days of demos and talks, the final demo on the final day of Dockercon EU WAS one of the single most entertaining demos I have ever seen at any conference was shown. Dockercraft. NO, that’s not just running Minecraft inside of Docker (that’s easy, I’ve done that for a few […]

From the ‘Contain This’ files: There is no single technology hotter today than Docker containers. Today the open-source Docker project released version 1.9.0 of Docker engine, providing an important milestone update. For me the biggest single item is the promotion of Docker Networking to stable from being just a technology preview. The libnetwork component in […]

The era of HTTP/2 is now here, with both browsers and web servers supporting the next generation of the HTTP protocol that powers the modern web. The new Apache HTTP 2.4.17 release this week now includes the mod_http2 module providing HTTP/2 support. The basic syntax to enable HTTP/2, is about as easy at it gets […]

From the ‘ Didn’t See that Coming’ files: Zend Technologies – a company that bills itself as ‘the’ PHP Company has been acquired by Rogue Wave Software for an undisclosed amount. The timing of the acquisition is just a few short weeks before the PHP 7.0 release which should serve to dramatically accelerate PHP performance. […]

From the ‘oxidized programming’ files: The Mozilla backed RUST programming language is moving forward this week with the Rust 1.3 release which benefits from nearly 900 changes. As is the case with most new software, performance is a key area of improvement. Rust got started in 2009 and had been steadily improving ever since. Among […]

From the ‘point release make milestones better’ files: The Docker 1.8.2 release is now out provide the second incremental update to Docker 1.8.x since the initial 1.8.0 release on August 12. As was the case with 1.8.1 this is a bug and stability update. From my perspective there are few noteworthy fixes including: -Fix a […]

For the fourth quarter, Palo Alto reported revenue of $283.9 million for a 59 percent year over year gain. For the full fiscal 2015 year, the company’s revenue came in at $928.1 million, for a 55 percent year-over-year gain. Despite the revenue gains, Palo Alto is still not a profitable company, though the overall picture […]

The new recall impacts only 7,810 sport utility vehicles (SUVs) in the United States. Of those, FCA said more than half are still at its dealers and will be fixed before they are sold. “Affected are certain 2015 Jeep Renegade SUVs equipped with 6.5-inch touchscreens,” FCA noted in its recall notice. The July recall included […]

Although the breach occurred in 2013, Excellus just discovered the issue on Aug. 5. Since then, Excellus has engaged with the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as FireEye’s Mandiant incident response division. “We worked closely with Mandiant, one of the world’s leading cyber-security firms, to conduct our investigation and to remediate the issues created […]