Do you remember Google Wave?

Apache Wave

Apache Wave (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Does anybody remember Google Wave ? Google Wave was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009 as a web-based real time communications protocol designed to merge key features of communications media such as email, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. With software extensions it could provide contextual spelling and grammar checking, automated language translation and many other features.
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Apple to Google Maps: We switched to OpenStreet Maps, don’t tell anyone

Yesterday Apple launched iPhoto, its photo management app, for the iPad and iPhone. But rather seeing Google Maps being integrated in the app, there was something open… instead… Continue reading

WordPress and Automatic loves Ubuntu and they show it

Last night I was checking some tutorials about “custom menus” over wordpress.com’s support section and came across a rare type of showing your love for an operating system especially when it is an open source project.

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BFS – BFQ optimized linux kernel packages ready for install

As my previous post was a bit of a surprise for many of Linux users out there, I decided to distribute my work, so that others also can benefit from BFS kernel.

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BFS vs CFS: Some personal observations on Linux Kernel performance

For some time now, I have stopped using the Linux kernel that comes bundled with the Ubuntu operating system and use a version that has a different approach on the matter of kernel schedulers. Continue reading

Don't Make Me Think

Reblogged from JJJ:

If you haven’t had the pleasure, Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think is a must-read book not just for web developers and designers, but for anyone that’s ever criticized a website, ever. I recently had the pleasure of reading it again as part of a work semi-assignment, and there were a few key points that really struck a chord with me (for the second time) I thought I’d share here.

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Today I am posting an interesting article from John James Jacoby, lead BuddyPress and bbPress developer at Automatic (Wordpress), who adresses todays need for not only some better web design principles but also designing facts you have to know to provide a better user experience. Enjoy and leave a comment !

Cerebrux website 2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 41,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 15 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Sitting is killing you even if you are open source developer

One health story making the rounds is how sitting too much all day will kill you. Since you are likely seated as you read this, don’t panic. According to fitness scientists, a 40 year old woman should be able to do 16 push ups. A man, 27. Continue reading