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Changing Your Android App's Theme Dynamically

By Jessica Thornsbury

| Article Published April 08, 2013

Find out how to build a customizable Android app, where the user can change the app's theme dynamically at runtime.
Tags : UI, Google, Android, themes, open source, smartphone, app development

Top 10 Things to Know about TypeScript

By Bipin Joshi

| Article Published February 27, 2013

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that provides typed nature to your code. TypeScript can be used for cross-browser development and is an open source project. Bipin Joshi shares a quick overview of the top 10 features of this new scripting language.
Tags : JavaScript, TypeScript, open source, cross browser

NetBeans 7.2 Adds Static Analysis, Improves Performance

By Developer.com Staff

| Article Published July 30, 2012

The Java IDE supports the latest versions of C++, PHP, Maven and Groovy.
Tags : Oracle, IDE, Java, open source, NetBeans

Google Releases Collide Web-Based IDE

By Developer.com Staff

| Article Published July 11, 2012

The move could mean the Brightly project is at an end.
Tags : Google, open source, IDE, Collide, Web

Eclipse Survey Shows Strong Momentum for Git, Java, Mobile Development

By Developer.com Staff

| Article Published June 14, 2012

The poll of open source developers finds little interest in cloud development.
Tags : Java, cloud development, Subversion, survey, Eclipse, mobile development, cloud computing, git, open source

Dell Launches Experimental Developer Laptop

By Developer.com Staff

| Article Published May 08, 2012

Project Sputnik runs Ubuntu and includes developer-friendly utilities.
Tags : laptop, Dell, Ubuntu, developer, open source

Yahoo Open Sources Mojito Mobile Development Framework

By Developer.com Staff

| Article Published April 02, 2012

The company says, "We want the Web to win."
Tags : mobile development, Yahoo, Mojito framework, open source, Web

Git Support Comes to Microsoft's CodePlex

By Developer.com Staff

| Article Published March 23, 2012

Developers had been demanding support for the popular version control system.
Tags : git, CodePlex, open source, Microsoft

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 : development tools, open source

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 : Nokia, open source

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 : open source, Intel

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 : open source, licensing

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 : social network, open source

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, Google, YouTube

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 : open source, Goldman Sachs

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 : SAP, Oracle, open source

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 : open source, social network

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 : AMD, open source, drivers

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 : video, cloud app, open source

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 : graphics, open source

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 : Android, open source, Microsoft, Google

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, Drupal, Open Source for America

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 : Communications Server, open source, 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 : cloud computing, open source, testing

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 : Fog, Ruby, Engine Yard, Ruby on Rails, open source

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 : Java, open source, JDK

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 : git, video, version control, open source

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

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