Facebook open-sources their Tornado web server framework
Social networking industry giant Facebook has announced that they are now releasing a cool piece of server technology as open source.
Tornado Web server framework was originally developed for FriendFeed service which is now owned by Facebook.
The company said that they want this platform to be used widely [...]

youtube-dl: command-line program to download YouTube videos
Developer Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez has made available a script that can be used from command line to download videos from YouTube.
It requires the Python interpreter so the script can basically run on a lot of platforms.
It is however easiest to use on the Linux platform as it [...]

Fedora 11 codenamed Leonidas
Paul W. Frields has revealed that they are naming the next edition of Fedora as Leonidas.
Fedora is in version 10 currently. The developers are working on the Leonidas 11 release.
It is expected to be released in May this year.
Some of the new features planned for this release include:
Inclusion [...]

NetBeans IDE to support Python and Jython
Sun Microsystems has announced that they would add support for Python and Jython in their future releases of open-source NetBeans IDE.
This application is also going to get support for (or already supports) JavaScript, Ruby, JRuby, NetBeans, C and C++.
Company representative Kuldip Oberoi said in a blog post: “Python is [...]

Appcelerator Platform now support Google App Engine

Appcelerator has announced that they are now supporting the recently launched Google App Engine.
The company said that the applications developed using their Appcelerator Platform can now be deployed to the Google App Engine service.
The platform is open source and is used to develop rich Internet applications.
Jeff Haynie, co-founder [...]