I came across Sphinx via the MySQL Performance Blog (which has some good entries you might want to check out). It is an Open Source Full Text SQL Search Engine.
Using External JavaScript Source Files
By now most web designers and developers know that JavaScript causes a real headache for search engine spiders.
Grokking the Source
At http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000684.html, Jeff Atwood has an interesting observation:
Java Open Source Holy Grail Persists
Sun Microsystems has held tightly to control of its Java source code, despite years of pleas for them to open it to the development community.
Zawodny On Open Source Citizenship
With a title like “Why Google and Yahoo! can’t be better open source citizens” one might think that our companies were squeezing as much as possible out of the open source world and giving little back.
Moving to Open Source Tools & Business Processes
Many have written about how going Open Source changes your business model or sales process. Dana Blankenhorn notes that the open sourcing of Hyperic’s product changed how they work. It required them to write code for stability and continuity, as well as adopt more Open Source tools.
Open Source In eHarmony Development Bliss
When it comes to avoiding outages that cost a business $1,000 per minute of downtime, the matchmaking site eHarmony prefers an open source stack for its operations.
Source Code Needs A Place To Stay
This isn’t a chapter in the CVS versus Subversion debate, but a look at places online to view useful pieces of code.
‘Open Source’ iLiad Soon
As someone who reads mostly on a computer screen, I can’t wait to see gadgets appearing that make the screen-reading experience a lot better than it currently is with PC screens.
Open-Source Java Could Pose Problem
Following the pledge of Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz to make Java open-source, others within the company are warning that incompatibilities could result. While this isn’t sure to happen, a Sun executive feels it is a strong possibility, and must be guarded against.