- Eclipse erects Mosquitto net: The MQTT broker Mosquitto is being proposed as a new open source project at Eclipse. It not only implements the TCP based MQTT but has support for MQTT-SN, a connectionless version for UDP and other networks. The plan is to merge Mosquitto and RSMB, a previously closed source MQTT broker implementation, at Eclipse. If, or more when, this proposal is accepted, it will mean that the Eclipse M2M initiative will have a full MQTT cross platform stack under their wing. If you want a low-nonsense, low-overhead publish and subscribe messaging system, you will want to look at MQTT.
- Firefox memory saves: Sometimes memory saving is marginal. Other times, like this it can be huge. A combination of two fixes applied to the Firefox code base have take peak memory use on image heavy pages down from, in an example, 3GB in Firefox 23 to “a couple of hundred megabytes” in Firefox 26 (Aurora). Excellent work from the Firefox Memshrink team; this wasn’t just a matter of closing leaks but working out what was and wasn’t onscreen and what could have been likely to be on screen.
- Apache OpenOffice updates: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 has just had its first update in the shape of version 4.0.1. Along with bug fixes, there’s 9 new translations (Basque, Khmer, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbian Cyrillic, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Vietnamese) getting OpenOffice up to 32 languages supported, and a number of performance improvements including speeding up Excel spreadsheet saving by 230% in “one common scenario”. Release notes also show updated translations and updated English (US and proper), Gaelic, French, Italian and Spanish dictionaries. And if you are wondering what this has to do with code; remember you can use OpenOffice headless as a document processing service (start it with the -headless parameter).
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