I don't see any download links. But, this is apparently going to be released as an Open Source product by Facebook. They developed HipHop as a way to get better performance for their PHP based site.

HipHop for PHP: Move Fast

HipHop is a source code transformer that translates PHP code into optimized C++.

I finally got around to playing with the Arduino microcontroller the other day and started looking around for related projects. This search led me to...

Processing.org

GrandPerspective is a free Open Source app for Mac OS X that scans your hard disk and produces a graphical map of how space on the drive is being used. I decided to clean up my drive today, and decided to check if a newer release than the 0.9.9 version on my Mac was available. And, yep, it was last updated in September 2009. You can find the current release at...

GrandPerspective 1.1

Interesting article over on Infoworld comparing the free (for personal use) VirtualBox virtualization software against the for-fee VMWare Workstation and Parallels Desktop 4 for Windows & Linux (not the Mac version)...

InfoWorld review: Desktop virtualization for Windows and Linux heats up

VMware Worsktation 7: 8.6
SUN VirtualBox 3.1: 8.4
Parallels Desktop 4 for Windows & Linux: 8.2

All three products' score are in the "very good" category.

The Open Source file container and whole disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux was updated on November 23, 2009. This update is a minor dot update release for bug-fixes (always important!).

TrueCrypt 6.3a

There's a bit over a year's gap between 0.9.3 and...

HandBrake 0.9.4

But, it arrived late in November and is available for download. Mac uses with Core 2 Duo processors should note the download page advises they use the 64-bit version.

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. It handles DVD-like sources (you can decode that language I'm sure :-)

From Softpedia...

VirtualBox 3.1.0 Final Released

Oddly, VirtualBox 3.0.12 running under Windows said it is the current release when I selected "check for updates". However, the 3.1.0 update for all platforms is available at...

VirtualBox 3.1.0 downloads page

The Softpedia article mentions several interesting enhancements available in the 3.1.0 release:

- Teleportation: Live VM migration session (wow)

The XMind mind mapping service an free Open Source (so they claim) app for Windows and Mac OS X (Linux too) looks interesting. But, I dislike the idea of being required to sign up for a "free" XMind ID just to try the app. I've been a reasonably happy FreeMind user for a while now and have been using it more regularly recently. But, I wonder if it is worth the time and effort to take a closer look at XMind.

Any comments from someone who has use XMind?

Subversion is a widely used version control application that is very powerful but can be a little tricky to configure properly. My experience with it has been on Linux servers. I suspect installing it for Microsoft Windows is a bit tricker since installing and configuring Apache's httpd web server might be a bit trickier there too (I haven't installed Apache httpd under Windows in a couple of years). VisualSVN provides a free installer that installs and configures both Apache httpd and their VisualSVN Server...

VisualSVN Server Standard Edition

Alfresco Community Edition 3.2

Just a quick note that TrueCrypt 6.2a was released on June 15. TrueCrypt is an amazing Open Source encryption app that can create encrypted file containers that are mounted as drives or entire drives (including boot drives). It works with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

I just learned about the...

BeanShell

...Java scripting language while reading about the new Android Scripting Environment and writing about it for the MobileContentToday blog...

Android Scripting Environment Both Awesome & Frightening

Its installers are are Java jar files. So, I'll guess it can be used on any platform that Java runs on. I'm definitely planning on taking a closer look at it sometime soon.

Interesting item from Microsoft's Port25 site...

Announcing the PHP SDK for Windows Azure

I found this part of the announcement equally interesting...

Microsoft has provided funding for two other SDKs that support third party programming languages: Java SDK for Microsoft .NET Services and Ruby SDK for Microsoft .NET Services so as to facilitate interoperability between the Azure Services Platform and non-Microsoft languages and technologies.

Interesting item from eaves.ca...

vancouver enters the age of the open city

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Vancouver endorses the principles of:

- Open and Accessible Data - the City of Vancouver will freely share with citizens, businesses and other jurisdictions the greatest amount of data possible while respecting privacy and security concerns;

Good news for MySQL fans (like me). MySQL founder Monty Widenius and Peter Zaitsev announced the formation of the...

Open Database Alliance

Its stated purpose is to be:

Just noticed that new versions of...

GTK+ and The GIMP installers for Windows

Happy to report that the free and Open Source...

OpenOffice.org 3.1

...was released. I don't see any big new features in the list of enhancements (see link above). But, the overall list of enhancements like improved screen appearance and additin of macros/scripts to its Base (database) look interesting.

I wonder if OOo will survive now that Oracle owns it by way of its Sun purchase?

Just noticed that VirtualBox got a minor point update (from 2.2.0 to 2.2.2) last week...

VirtualBox 2.2.2 (released 2009-04-27) Changelog

There's a lot of items in the changelog for 2.2.2. So, be sure to take a look at them to see what was fixed in this release.