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Download FireFox 3 Beta 1 now
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:44 AM

firefox beta1 is out, i am surprised with all the rumors about it being very buggy and that the team will be solving only 20% of the bugs but it's here let's try it now download it Read More...

by amir.magdy | with no comments

Filed under: open source, industry news

Android platform components
Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:15 PM

Android is the new platform adopted by google for the so called "Gphone" the announcement that google made a week ago that there will be actually a phone platform with the name google on it, and that there's a clean platform open for development is very nice to know the linux based platform is clean and open source and has a set of features that... Read More...

by amir.magdy | with no comments

Filed under: open source, industry news

Subversion vs. Source Safe [VSS vs SVN]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:08 PM

i couldn't beleive that there's anyone still using source safe, anyway here's the comparison Visual source Safe [VSS] SubVersion [SVN] Commits are not atomic. Renames Affects the whole history only supports locked checkouts permissiona are supported but anyone can access shares and mess up files. smallest commit block is a file works only on windows... Read More...

by amir.magdy | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: open source, source control

SVN [Subversion]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:55 AM

subversion or svn is a source control solution that relies on the idea of shared checkout; mmm that means that multiple people can edit the same file at the same time. well if u're using VSS (visual source safe) that might be hard for you to understand Here's how it works you get the latest version of a file you start editing this file immediatly without... Read More...

by amir.magdy | with no comments

Filed under: open source, software engineering, source control