Linux.com: "The key to being successful in the IT industry is interning while still attending college and taking some certification courses after graduation. Do some research. Find an open source technology company that will provide you with the tools and resources you will need to build your career. Open source spans platforms, middleware and applications from data centers to desktops. There are many companies that offer internship programs and certification courses."
After 18 months of development, Geeklog 1.5.0 has been released. As I mentioned last month, changes found in Geeklog 1.5.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during the 2007 Google Summer of Code:
New user-friendly install script
New Configuration Graphical User Interface
New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol
Additional new features and enhancements included in this release:
Google Code:"Google Summer of Code 2008 is on! Over the past three
years, the program has brought together over 1500 students and
2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide, all for the love of
code. This year, we're welcoming 1125 student contributors and 175
Free and Open Source projects into the program. You can find out more
about each participating organization and abstracts of their accepted
students' proposals by visiting each organization's page, below. We'll
be posting regular news about the program to the Google Open Source Blog."
"Every summer since 2005, Google has offered what is essentially a paid
internship to open source groups. Students are offered the opportunity
to work with open source development groups to complete projects, often
resulting in significant advances for both the student’s knowledge and
the developments they’ve worked on. These projects, combined or
otherwise, are some of the biggest successes we’ve seen come out of
Google’s Summer of Code."
Sigurd Magnusson wrote to us letting us know about a YouTube video where he talks about his company's content management system, SilverStripe. The video was recorded while at a recent function at Google for software developers.
Here's some interesting content for both you and your readers, providing a quick overview of our project, company and our success with the Google Summer of Code project. :-)
While the content management system, SilverStripe, has been on my radar for some time I never really took the time to cover the Web application here at CMS Report. Now it so happens that SilverStripe has been nominated as one of the most promising open source CMS out there. About the only thing I can do to correct my oversight is to put SilverStripe on a list of the "top 30" CMS we focus on here at CMS Report. Sadly, mostly out of nostalgia, SilverStripe will be bumping Simple PHP Blog off the "CMS Focus" list.
Earlier this month, SilverStripe 2.1 was released. The folks on the SilverStripe team appear pretty excited about this release, with just the right synergy brewing to give this CMS a good future. Some of the new features and improvements in SilverStripe 2.1 include:
I really can't display every open source project's invitation for college students to apply to Google's Summer of Code. But just like the invitation from Drupal, Wordpress would be another one of those projects I wouldn't have minded working on when I was going to college.
Coding during my college years would have been a whole lot more fun than some of the jobs I did have while in school. There is only so much reward you can get from stocking shelves at a grocery store during the night shift. Of course I'm not so sure Turbo Pascal would really have been up to the tasks of today's Web 2.0 environment.