My fellow countrymen at Daffodil have decided to put their free java database One$DB on to Sourceforge.net and open the source. Here is their press release
Gurgaon , India - January 17, 2005: Daffodil Software, a leading database technology company, today announced the Open Source release of One$DB at SourceForge.net
The move to Open Source One$DB, is driven by the fact that Open Source products are more acceptable and flexible, as they can be understood better in terms of strengths and limitations and can be customized to suit specific requirements without any fear of vendor locking . We also feel that Open Source products become more mature due to the continuous involvement of a diverse community.
One$DB, which was initially launched as a free database, is an effort to drive open source innovation around Java-based applications, which will in turn create new business opportunities in various areas such as embedded database applications, Java applications and web-based applications.
What I found on the contact information page of FogCreek
Transit: we're just a few blocks away from 1, 2, 3, 9, A, C, E at 34th Street or any subway line at Times Square. We're also only a few blocks from Penn Station (Amtrak, LIRR) or the Port Authority Bus Terminal. From Grand Central Terminal, take the Shuttle to Times Square.
Helicopter: Sorry, our garden is too small to land helicopters.
Alligators: enter via NYC sewers
Google has updated its Picasa imaging software, including the ability to e-mail pictures via its GMail service, support for exporting photos to various printing services and various other editing enhancements. Picasa also has software Hello to post pictures directly to its blogging service Blogger .
Adapdev Technologies has decided to release their O/R mapper product Codus v1.0 as free. It currently supports MS SQL and ACCESS only.
Here is the text from the mail from Sean McCormack
“I’ve decided to release Codus 1.0 for free, since I think this is the best way to grow the product and make it worth-while. For those that don’t know:
Codus is a comprehensive code generation tool for object-relational mapping. It takes an existing database and automatically generates all of the code for updating, deleting, inserting and selecting records. In addition, it creates web services for distributed programming, strongly-typed collections, and a full set of unit tests.
You can download Codus at the following url: http://www.adapdev.com/codus/downloads.aspx
Here’s the roadmap: http://www.adapdev.com/codus/index.aspx#roadmap (I’m quickly approaching a 1.1Beta release)
I’m always looking for feedback, so please contact me with any feature requests, bugs, or success stories.”
I did not know it before I read The Daily Grind 537. I was unable to find my Virtual PC image of XP to put the Yahoo! Desktop Search on test and possibly have a clue that its X1 technology Yahoo is using. Here is a Letter from the President of X1 for what lies in the future.
So, they join the race for desktop search and release the beta of Yahoo! Desktop Search, and claim to index more then 200 different types of files.
Don Syme (http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme) has started blogging about F#, the language he has written. After a long time he has come out with a preview release (http://research.microsoft.com/projects/fsharp). Check out more at F# home page at http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.aspx.
It seems guys at Neowin (www.neowin.net) got it almost correct. Microsoft released the Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) on Jan 5th for public on the download center. This is rework of the Giant AntiSpyware product but the users of the current Gaint AntiSpyware are recommended to stay away from this; at least for the time being.
As Microsoft puts it “Windows AntiSpyware is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This helps reduce negative effects caused by spyware including slow PC performance, annoying pop-up ads, unwanted changes to Internet settings, and unauthorized use of your private information. Continuous protection improves Internet browsing safety by guarding over 50 ways spyware can enter your PC.
The worldwide SpyNet™ community plays a key role in determining which suspicious programs are classified as spyware. Microsoft researchers quickly develop methods to counteract these threats, which are automatically downloaded to your PC, so you stay up-to-date. “
Do check out if you no other antispyware installed or ask your network administrator to install it for you if you do not own the machine (I mean, not a member of administrators group).
Download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&DisplayLang=en