Mac News: Meet Apple TV Release Soon
Shortly before Steve Job’s death, he reportedly stated that he’d “finally cracked” the concept of how to do Apple TV effectively, only enhancing the targets – and possible frustration – for the product. Can something measure up to what we want to see from Steve Jobs’ last Apple device?
We might simply be several months away from this answer, after a new rumor that an Apple TV could be launched as early as the second or third quarter of this year.
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News: TechnologyMeet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software
The meeting took place a week before Bill Gates retired from Microsoft, and the topic was open source software.
It was the summer of 2008, and for years, the open source community had viewed Microsoft as public enemy number one. Seven years earlier, CEO Steve Ballmer had referred to Linux as a “malignant cancer,” and as recently as the previous summer, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith and licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez had told Fortune Magazine that Linux violated 235 of its patents, implying that it would soon demand royalties from any big business using the open source OS.
Read full story => Wired
Programming News: The story of TextMate, VIM and SublimeText
I always preferred heavyweight IDE to do most of the stuff. I tried many IDEs for Ruby, even purchased two upgrades for RubyMine, but it never felt right. I wanted to do the same things that IntelliJ can do to Java, all those beautiful hardcore refactorings. But those just don’t exist for Ruby.
I used my IDE to do source control and I didn’t really understand the command line tools. I knew how to invoke Rails generators from the IDE, but I wasn’t really confident doing the same from the command line.
Read full story => ProgFu
Standards News: Personal health data better protected by ISO standard
ISO has published a new technical specification which will increase protection of personal health information processed, stored and transferred by computer systems for subsequent use by clinicians and others in healthcare organizations. ISO/TS 14265:2011, Health informatics – Classification of purposes for processing personal health information, defines a set of high-level categories of purposes for which such personal health information can be processed.
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