MediaShelf

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of commercial support services for Fedora. This has been a long time coming for the Fedora community, and I’m very excited that MediaShelf is now ready to provide this as a regular service offering. This support offering is staffed entirely by Fedora committers and we are setting aside [...]

Even if you’re successfully running Hydrangea without RVM, I will argue that you’ve merely chanced upon an ephemeral state of bliss. To paraphrase a famous Sicilian: you’ve fallen victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia”, but only slightly less well-known [...]

Among the highlights of dev8D are the developer challenges. Last year, List8D took home the £5,000 first prize at the Developer Decathlon. This year, there are ten different challenges, or bounties. Mahendra Mahey explained that last year’s single grand prize format left a number of otherwise deserving innovation efforts unrecognized. As a result, this year’s [...]

Adrian Bowyer, from the University of Bath, visited us today at dev8D to demonstrate RepRap. RepRap is a 3D printer that uses plastic as raw material (the ink, or toner, if you will) to produce three-dimensional objects. Aside from the pure geek-appeal of a self-replicating, 3D printer that accepts designs from Art of Illusion or [...]

In acknowledgment of Hello to Dev8D from Code4Lib, Dev8D prepared a warm greeting for Code4Lib from otherwise cold and wet London:

JISC Developer Days (aka dev8D) kicked off today at the University of London Union with an estimated 500 attendees. I don’t remember the number of attendees last year, but it feels much bigger this year. Spanning five rooms, I counted at least 27 different sessions, talks and workshops over the space of a single afternoon. [...]