Let's try to create a chain of documents like the one John did in Xaraya 2.0 Brainstorming. After a while the common denominators should float to the surface by looking at the whole chain. I tend to view at an application development process like this: make it work make it right make it nice make if fast For Xaraya, …

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Gentoo's Portage to be ported to Windows Services for UNIX A group of Windows programmers is working on porting Gentoo's Portage over to Windows SFU. If you don't know already, Windows Services for UNIX is a full POSIX subsystem for Windows, enabling it to compile and run almost any software that will compile on BSD, …

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As more and more open source software runs well on windows (something which has not always been that way to my great frustration), becomes more cross platform (e.g. xchat, sodipodi, gaim, openoffice ), i found myself needing an apt-get equivalent on windows. Usually windows versions of OSS are either file archives to …

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Distributed and peer 2 peer systems  seem to have found it's way into several applications: instant messaging (icq, jabber, msn etc.) source control (bitkeeper) file and content sharing (kazaa and the likes) personal content (weblogs) connectivity (wifi grids) It is my belief that this trend is more general …

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I experimented a little with PHP-GTK yesterday. I have massive amounts of PHP-libraries lying around and didn't want to switch to another language for using those libraries in other applications than pure web. The combo of PHP and GTK makes up for a reasonable alternative (for java for example) for platform …

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