Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

The Widget Jones Library - released

Monday, February 4th, 2008

EU Edge is proud to announce the release of another Open Source project, called The Widget Jones Library. The Widget Jones Library is a lightweight, flexible, template driven widget build system. It is intended to simplify creating portable widgets. Write your code once, build it with WJL, then run it on ...

Trying to get through a kernel patch

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

After having trouble setting up my selection of CH joysticks to work with X-Plane on my Gentoo Linux based laptop, I did some research. It seems that the issue is a well known one: on 64 bit Linux systems, joystick control events are not passed through to 32 bit applications. ...

Google Android runs on Sharp Zaurus SL-C760

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Yesterday we managed to get Google Android running on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C760. This seems to be the first documented success with this device. This article provides instructions on how to get it working, in case you would like to try it at home :) Google Android is a new ...

ua: yet another tool for finding duplicates

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

The problem of finding duplicate files is probably as old as megabyte capacity hard drives. The fact that there are so many on practically any system that has been in operation for some time is surprising. I would say it is even astonishing when you find source duplicates in your ...

EU Edge Open Source site launched

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

I'm glad to announce that we've launched the EU Edge Open Source site. This site will contain the open source projects developed by EU Edge, as well as references to open source projects maintained (or contributed to) by EU Edge members. The first EU Edge Open Source project released on this ...

Let the user see the code - GPL for Web applications

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

The Free Software Foundation has released the Affero General Public License version 3. The license is essentially the GPLv3 with an added clause that requires that source code be distributed to users that interact with the application over a network. The license effectively extends copyright to Web applications. The new ...