February 22, 2012
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The Top Ten New Open Source Projects of 2011
By Developer.com Staff
| Article Published January 20, 2012
Black Duck Software has published their annual "Open Source Rookie of the Year List," and it features several development tools.
Tags : open source, development tools
Can Open Source Survive in a Post-PC World?
By Keith Vance
| Article Published March 18, 2011
The battle for the PC ended like most tech battles, the technology became obsolete. So now that we're entering the age of the handheld, can open source cut it?
Tags : tablet PCs, open source
FFmpeg Forked
By Keith Vance
| Article Published March 14, 2011
It's called libav. It's a fork of FFmpeg.
Tags : open source
Why Nokia Failed with Open Source
By Keith Vance
| Article Published March 09, 2011
After years of development, Nokia walks away from open source to the welcoming arms of Microsoft for Windows Phone 7.
Tags : open source, Nokia
Intel Investing Millions in Open Source
By Keith Vance
| Article Published February 16, 2011
These Intel investments represent innovative companies that Intel is working with to help advance our mobile platform initiatives across the smart device segments, Intel said.
Tags : Intel, open source
Survey Says Companies Embracing Open Source for Competitive Advantage
By Keith Vance
| Article Published February 09, 2011
Companies said that gaining a competitive advantage is "significant reason" for choosing open source software over proprietary.
Tags : open source
Developer Accuses Adam Tablet Maker of Violating Open Source License
By Keith Vance
| Article Published January 25, 2011
The Apache 2 license requires credit be given for copyrighted, patented, trademarked and attributed work.
Tags : licensing, open source
Oracle Positioning Java for the Enterprise at the Expense of Open Source Community
By Keith Vance
| Article Published January 24, 2011
Forrester Research reports predicts that in the next decade the open source community will have walked away from Java while mission-critical large enterprises will stick with it.
Tags : open source, Java, Oracle
Black Duck Software Names Diaspora 2010 Open Source Rookie of the Year
By Keith Vance
| Article Published January 07, 2011
Black Duck Software says that Diaspora social network was the clear number one open source rookie of the year for 2010.
Tags : open source, social network
Congress API Chief Among New York Times Open Source
By Keith Vance
| Article Published December 29, 2010
The New York Times' open source offerings and APIs don't get a lot of press, but there are some interesting tools available to developers, such as the Congress API.
Tags : New York Times, open source
Why Some Countries Are Adopting Open Source More Than Others
By Keith Vance
| Article Published December 27, 2010
Countries that adopt open source software are those with high levels of technical training, a general population that has access to the information society and governmental policies that encourage the use of open source software.
Tags : open source
Google Launches Open Source YouTube Channel
By Keith Vance
| Article Published December 22, 2010
Google's open source YouTube channel is a place to find videos related to open source software projects.
Tags : open source, YouTube, Google
Goldman Sachs Stolen Code Contained Open Source Software
By Keith Vance
| Article Published December 09, 2010
During testimony, one witness said that the code allegedly stolen by Sergey Aleynikov from Goldman Sachs contained a lot of open source software.
Tags : Goldman Sachs, open source
Oracle's $1.3 Billion Court Victory Against SAP Also a Win for Open Source
By Keith Vance
| Article Published December 01, 2010
Oracle's $1.3 billion court win against SAP proves that with open source software, customers are in the driver's seat.
Tags : open source, SAP, Oracle
First Look at Diaspora, Open Source Social Network
By Keith Vance
| Article Published November 29, 2010
It's too early to tell if open source social networking project Diaspora will be a Facebook killer, but Ars Technica's Ryan Paul reviews the alpha code.
Tags : social network, open source
Open Source OpenVizsla USB Sniffer Exceeds Venture Funding Goals
By Keith Vance
| Article Published November 29, 2010
The OpenVizsla project has raised nearly $40,000 to build an open source USB sniffer.
Tags : USB, open source
AMD Releases Open Source Driver for Fusion Chip
By Keith Vance
| Article Published November 24, 2010
AMD next-generation Fusion APU chip is a low-power, dual-core processor.
Tags : open source, drivers, AMD
Kaltura Releases Community Edition Version 3.0 of Video Platform
By Keith Vance
| Article Published November 18, 2010
The Kaltura Video Platform Community Edition has the same features as the commercial edition, as well as a cloud deployment option.
Tags : open source, video, cloud app
Blender Wins 2010 Open Source Graphics Software Award
By Keith Vance
| Article Published November 17, 2010
The Blender Foundation said they will use the prize money to set up a dedicated wiki server and upgrade the project's back-end software and bug tracking.
Tags : open source, graphics
Open Source Application Silverstripe Approved by Microsoft
By Keith Vance
| Article Published November 17, 2010
Silverstripe is the first open source Web application to be Microsoft certified.
Tags : open source, Microsoft
Matt Asay Says Microsoft Open Source Threats Will Fail
By Keith Vance
| Article Published October 29, 2010
Matt Asay warns Microsoft against continuing the company's current strategy of threatening lawsuits to crush open source software.
Tags : Google, Android, Microsoft, open source
Open Source for America Award Goes to the White House
By Keith Vance
| Article Published October 29, 2010
Open Source for America (OSA) promotes the use of open source in the U.S. federal government. This week the group announced the winners of its inaugural open source awards program.
Tags : Open Source for America, open source, Drupal
Open Source Communication Server, Asterisk 1.8.0 Available Now
By Keith Vance
| Article Published October 28, 2010
Asterisk 1.8, the next major release for this open source communication server, turns a computer into a communication server that can handle IP PBX, VoIP, conference calls, etc.
Tags : open source, Communications Server, Asterisk
Building a Test Platform in the Cloud with Open Source Technologies
By Rini Susan
| Article Published October 20, 2010
A cloud-based test platform dramatically shortens test setup times and delivers automated scaling. Find out how to build one with Eucalyptus, Tomcat, JMeter and MySQL.
Tags : open source, testing, cloud computing
Fog Aims to Advance Ruby in the Cloud
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published October 15, 2010
Open source Fog project gets commercial backing and advances effort for multi-cloud interoperability for Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
Tags : Ruby, Ruby on Rails, open source, Engine Yard, Fog
IBM Joins Oracle in OpenJDK Effort
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published October 11, 2010
IBM joins Oracle in the OpenJDK open source Java project, mitigating potential fragmentation and giving new credibility to Oracle's Java leadership.
Tags : JDK, Java, open source
Apache Shindig Gets Social
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published October 08, 2010
Open source Apache project revs up OpenSocial support for Web developers, but Facebook isn't at the party.
Tags : social network, open source
60 Great Open Source Products for the Developer's Toolbox
By Glen Kunene
| Article Published September 27, 2010
Even if you think you know all the great open source developer tools out there, you're bound to make a discovery or two on this list.
Tags : open source
Video: Implement Git Version Control in 11 Minutes
By Glen Kunene
| Article Published September 16, 2010
See how to use the Git version control system to manage your project's source code with ease and agility.
Tags : video, git, open source, version control
Inside Facebook's Open Source Infrastructure
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published July 22, 2010
How does Facebook deliver social networking to 500 million people? It takes a whole lot of storage and some open source goodness.
Tags : Facebook, open source
Does Python 2.7's Release Mean the End of the Line for Python 2.x?
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published July 08, 2010
The final Python 2.x release is now available, but does that mean developers need to jump to Python 3.x now?
Tags : open source, Python
Tomcat 7 Debuts for Java
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published July 02, 2010
Java app server gets its first major refresh in years, but it's not quite stable -- yet.
Tags : Tomcat, Java, open source, Apache
7 Popular Open Source Projects for .NET Developers
By Jason Gilmore
| Article Published June 25, 2010
Get an introduction to seven open source solutions embraced by millions of .NET developers around the globe.
Tags : open source, ASP.NET, .NET
Eclipse Community Survey Shows Open Source Dev Trends
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published June 07, 2010
Linux gaining tractions as a development platform, but it still lags behind Windows.
Tags : surveys, Eclipse, open source
Top 10 MySQL GUI Tools -- Plus One for the Command Line
By Sean Hull
| Article Published May 18, 2010
Here are ten outstanding graphical interfaces for MySQL management, development and administration, as well as one great MySQL toolkit with a wealth of command-line tools.
Tags : Top 10, open source, MySQL, database
Eclipse Labs Debuts for Open Source Projects
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published May 14, 2010
New effort expands Eclipse development beyond just big projects to an open system on Google Code.
Tags : Google Code, Eclipse, open source
Implementing OAuth Authorization on Social Networks
By Jaswinder Singh
| Article Published March 09, 2010
Walk through all the necessary steps for implementing the OAuth token-based authorization system--a perfect security solution for the social networking age--on both the consumer and provider sides.
Tags : open source, social networks, authentication, OAuth
Five Indispensable MySQL Tools
By Jason Gilmore
| Article Published February 26, 2010
Use these powerful tools to increase your MySQL development productivity.
Tags : open source, database administrator, MySQL, database, SQL
Meet Git, the Version Control System for Developers Who Like Ease
By Jason Gilmore
| Article Published February 23, 2010
Meet Git, an open-source version control system that reduces rather than adds to the overhead of managing a software project.
Tags : Linux, open source, Windows, git, version control
PHP Developers Prefer Using Windows to Build Enterprise Apps: Study
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published February 17, 2010
New data confirms that PHP developers have differing tastes when it comes to their operating system of choice for development and for deployment.
Tags : open source, Mac OS X, Windows, PHP 5, Zend
The Firefox Web Developer Toolbar Maximizes Your Productivity
By Jason Gilmore
| Article Published February 16, 2010
Web developers, the powerful Firefox Web Developer Toolbar add-in can send your productivity soaring.
Tags : web developers, CSS, open source, Firefox, browser extensions
The Java 7 Features Bound to Make Developers More Productive
By Raghu Donepudi
| Article Published February 12, 2010
The developer productivity features in the upcoming Java SE 7 release (object comparison, file system monitoring, and concurrency) are enough to make a Java veteran envy the Java newbies.
Tags : Java SE, file systems, Concurrency, Java, open source
Create a Unit Conversion Application with the Zend_Measure Component
By Jason Gilmore
| Article Published February 11, 2010
Learn how to create a simple conversion calculator using the Zend Framework's Zend_Measure component. Converting between the world's measurement units will never be easier.
Tags : conversion, open source, PHP, framework, Zend
Mnesia: A Distributed DBMS Rooted in Concurrency
By Roberto Giorgetti
| Article Published February 10, 2010
Find out what makes Mnesia, the Erlang-based database management system, perfect for distribution across a network of computers.
Tags : open source, Erlang, database, Mnesia, Concurrency
Using Axis2 and Java for Asynchronous Web Service Invocation on the Client Side
By Deepal Jayasinghe
| Article Published February 05, 2010
Apache Axis2, the open source Java web services framework, has very good support for client-side asynchronous service invocation. Find out how to make it work for you.
Tags : open source, Java, Web services, Axis, Axis2
Facebook's HipHop Goes Public With a New PHP Runtime
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published February 02, 2010
Over 90 percent of Facebook servers are now using HipHop as the project opens to the community, promising better performance and scalability.
Tags : open source, PHP, Facebook, Zend
Gardening with Drupal and Dries
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published January 29, 2010
Founder of popular open source CMS opens up about new efforts to make Drupal easier to install as version 7 approaches.
Tags : open source, CMS, Drupal Gardens, Drupal, Dries Buytaert
The New Spring 3.0 Features You Need to Know
By Yuvarani Meiyappan
| Article Published January 29, 2010
Go inside the notable new features in Spring 3.0, including Spring Expression Language, object/XML mapping, and RESTful web services support.
Tags : REST, Object/XML Mapping, Spring, Java EE, open source
Mozilla Firefox Gets More 'Agile' with Lorentz
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published January 22, 2010
A new Firefox release model is now set to take hold, which will see the popular browser's developers embrace more of an Agile-like methodology.
Tags : Firefox, Mozilla, open source
Compose a MVC Paradigm for PHP with Symfony
By Octavia Anghel
| Article Published January 21, 2010
Learn how the Symfony framework can enable you to simulate the MVC paradigm for PHP.
Tags : MVC, Symfony, PHP, open source
Selenium Gets Some Sauce for Open Source Testing
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published January 20, 2010
Popular open source app testing project gets funding and commercial products, too.
Tags : open source, browsers, testing, Selenium
News Brief: Facebook Sponsors Apache Software Foundation
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published January 12, 2010
Facebook is built on open source Apache technology, and now it's making support of the ASF official.
Tags : open source, Facebook, ASF, Apache, Hadoop
SpringSource DM Java Server Heads to Eclipse
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published January 12, 2010
It's a major code donation for Virgo as dm Server hits version 2.0.
Tags : Java, open source, Eclipse, OSGi, Java EE
An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes
By Chris Haseman
| Article Published January 11, 2010
A veteran mobile application developer vents his frustration with a list of 10 things he loves to hate about Android.
Tags : Android, mobile developer, Google, fragmentation, open source
PHP Module Programming with OXID eShop CE
By Andreas Ziethen
| Article Published January 07, 2010
Learn the fundamental principles of PHP module development with a working example of using a custom module to tweak the OXID eShop e-commerce product.
Tags : modules, ecommerce, shopping carts, PHP, open source
Create a CAPTCHA Script with PHP
By Octavia Anghel
| Article Published January 05, 2010
Create your own simple CAPTCHA with PHP to protect your site from spammers and bots.
Tags : open source, Web site, CAPTCHA, PHP, spam
Parsing XML with Hpricot, a Gem of a Ruby Gem
By Jason Gilmore
| Article Published January 05, 2010
Take heart XML-weary Ruby developers, Ruby's powerful Hpricot library can parse and manipulate XML with amazing flexibility and ease.
Tags : Ruby, open source, XML, XML Parser
Implement Automatic Discovery in Your Java Code with Annotations
By Jason Morris
| Article Published December 16, 2009
Learn how to use Java annotations to discover code automatically at runtime with a ServiceLoader. This useful technique will make your life easier.
Tags : Android, open source, Google, fragmentation, Device
Open Source Licensing Detection Gets More Competitive
By Developer.com Staff
| Article Published December 11, 2009
As open source adoption grows, so too does the competitive market for helping developers identify licenses and improve software adoption lifecycle.
Tags : CentOS, license, open source, Linux
Building a Test Platform in the Cloud with Open Source Technologies
By Rini Susan
| Article Published October 20, 2010
A cloud-based test platform dramatically shortens test setup times and delivers automated scaling. Find out how to build one with Eucalyptus, Tomcat, JMeter and MySQL.
Tags : open source, testing, cloud computing
Eclipse Labs Debuts for Open Source Projects
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Article Published May 14, 2010
New effort expands Eclipse development beyond just big projects to an open system on Google Code.
Tags : Google Code, Eclipse, open source
Five Indispensable MySQL Tools
By Jason Gilmore
| Article Published February 26, 2010
Use these powerful tools to increase your MySQL development productivity.
Tags : open source, database administrator, MySQL, database, SQL
The Firefox Web Developer Toolbar Maximizes Your Productivity
By Jason Gilmore
| Article Published February 16, 2010
Web developers, the powerful Firefox Web Developer Toolbar add-in can send your productivity soaring.
Tags : web developers, CSS, open source, Firefox, browser extensions
Mnesia: A Distributed DBMS Rooted in Concurrency
By Roberto Giorgetti
| Article Published February 10, 2010
Find out what makes Mnesia, the Erlang-based database management system, perfect for distribution across a network of computers.
Tags : open source, Erlang, database, Mnesia, Concurrency
Using Axis2 and Java for Asynchronous Web Service Invocation on the Client Side
By Deepal Jayasinghe
| Article Published February 05, 2010
Apache Axis2, the open source Java web services framework, has very good support for client-side asynchronous service invocation. Find out how to make it work for you.
Tags : open source, Java, Web services, Axis, Axis2
The New Spring 3.0 Features You Need to Know
By Yuvarani Meiyappan
| Article Published January 29, 2010
Go inside the notable new features in Spring 3.0, including Spring Expression Language, object/XML mapping, and RESTful web services support.
Tags : REST, Object/XML Mapping, Spring, Java EE, open source
An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes
By Chris Haseman
| Article Published January 11, 2010
A veteran mobile application developer vents his frustration with a list of 10 things he loves to hate about Android.
Tags : Android, mobile developer, Google, fragmentation, open source
Implement Automatic Discovery in Your Java Code with Annotations
By Jason Morris
| Article Published December 16, 2009
Learn how to use Java annotations to discover code automatically at runtime with a ServiceLoader. This useful technique will make your life easier.
Tags : Android, open source, Google, fragmentation, Device
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