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Who is This?
Matthew Thomas Broersma (born October 1, 1971 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American journalist, illustrator and comics author. Having grown up primarily in San Antonio, Texas, he is now based in England. Broersma is best known to English language readers for the story "The Mummy", published in Drawn & Quarterly Showcase Book Three, and the Fantagraphics series Insomnia. He has published several other books in France, ranging in theme from surrealistic, film noir-influenced stories to autobiography. His brother is the multi-instrumentalist underground musician Gland.
It has become a commonplace perception that the UK is rather unenlightened when it comes to open-source software.
According to Alfresco's Open Source Barometer, Britain is behind the US, France, Germany, Spain and Italy when it comes to adopting ...
From MATT BROERSMA,
ZDNet UK,
20 Feb 2008
The Gnome project has released the first test version of Gnome 2.22 this week, including a new Web-browser engine, a new virtual file system and updates for virtual network computing and accessibility.
Gnome is, along with KDE, one of the two major ...
From MATT BROERSMA,
LXer,
1 Feb 2008
Google on Wednesday launched its revamped mobile-search service in the UK, streamlining the interface and introducing an experience it believes will be more relevant to mobile-phone users.
Previously, Google's mobile search offered a search box and ...
From MATT BROERSMA,
ZDNet UK,
30 Jan 2008
HP has called on developers to pitch in and help improve the open-source management tools it made available to the community last week.
The governance tools, originally built for internal use at HP, are designed to simplify the management of ...
From MATT BROERSMA,
ZDNet UK,
29 Jan 2008
Security start-up Veracode updated its SecurityReview tool this week to allow companies to scan for backdoors and malicious code introduced during the development process, a class of security holes often missed by existing scanners.
Veracode, which was ...
From MATT BROERSMA,
ZDNet UK,
20 Dec 2007
Accountancy software company Intuit has created a waiting list for users affected by a flawed update to its QuickBooks Pro application.
The update erased QuickBooks data from the hard drives of many users last weekend, Intuit acknowledged. It affected ...
From MATT BROERSMA,
ZDNet UK,
20 Dec 2007
Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has released a content-development tool designed to move development into the Internet age.
Bazaar 1.0 differs from other version control systems (VCS) in that it is distributed ...
From MATT BROERSMA,
LXer,
18 Dec 2007
Adobe said last week it would introduce an open-source version of a tool for connecting data sources to Flash-based rich Internet applications. Adobe's announcement follows on from open-source plans for several of its other developer products.
The ...
From MATT BROERSMA,
LXer,
18 Dec 2007
Adobe said on Thursday it would open source a tool for connecting data sources to flash-based rich internet applications. Adobe's announcement follows on from open-source plans for several of its other developer products.
The software, to be called ...
From MATT BROERSMA,
ZDNet UK,
17 Dec 2007
The revised European Patent Convention took effect this week, bringing in a system designed to substantially simplify patent issues for businesses, according to the European Patent Office.
The updated Patent Convention has been 10 years in the making, ...
From MATT BROERSMA,
ZDNet UK,
14 Dec 2007
