Yes, today is the Facebook IPO debut, but it’s not the only thing that...
Open Source Delivers
The Weekly Wrap Up
Yes, today is the Facebook IPO debut, but it’s not the only thing that happened in the technology world this week. Red Hat’s signature open source platform turned ten, the Apache Foundation reported unprecedented growth, new mobile project data was released and Tizen is running Android apps!? Warning: no Facebook IPO stories below! May 15th [...]
Community Starts at Home
No one knows the importance of communities more than community leaders. Yes, many of us are on Twitter and attending local networking meet-ups such as The Community Roundtable’s CRLive lunches, but I haven’t found a local get-together specifically for the folks who manage high-tech virtual communities in the Greater Boston area to dive deep on [...]
The Fight Continues on the Mobile O/S Battlefield
On the mobile o/s battlefield there are three Linux-based operating systems fighting to establish themselves along with the big boys of Android and iOS. Two of these are relatively new – Tizen and Bada – and the third, Palm/Web OS, is making a play to regain its previous stardom. With Android and iOS holding shares [...]
Code Analysis Best Practices
You know that analyzing your code for known open source is important. But now what? What’s the best way to integrate open source code analysis into your software development lifecycle? The answer, of course, is: it depends! There are a number of choices to consider, but no one right answer. When you’re doing multi-source development, [...]
Open Source Platforms for Mobile Apps and Games
Not every application should provide a game-like experience, but game-like animations, sounds, mechanics, and user interfaces are appearing more and more in the latest mobile and web applications. This information should come as no surprise. After all, “gamefication” of products continues to be a hot topic at many major technology conferences, and games themselves dominate [...]
The Weekly Wrap Up
Dell dominated a lot of the tech news this week, announcing a new OEM partnership with Red Hat and building an open source laptop for developers. Read about announcements from Dell, HP, The Document Foundation and more: Clint Boulton reported on the news that Dell is designing an open source computer with its new Project [...]
Open Access = Love
I’m an engineer because I want to understand how things work and I love to expand on that knowledge to make new things work. Recently I stumbled upon an analysis of web browser architecture. It is not surprising that most details in this analysis are from open source browsers (e.g. Google Chrome, Firefox), as opposed [...]
Open Source’s Next Frontier – NASA?
Recently the space shuttle Enterprise make its final flight, circling the Statue of Liberty while sitting atop a 747. It was a breathtaking sight, and also a reminder that NASA, at least for the time being, is focusing its energies closer to home. One of the next frontiers for NASA is open source. In February [...]
Open Security…Not an Oxymoron
Last week’s Defense Daily Cyber-Security Summit in Washington drew participants from industry and government agencies including the intelligence community (I could tell you, but…), NRC, TSA and the DoD. The panel on which I spoke discussed “open security” and included representatives from HP’s Fortify group and experts from NSA and Homeland Security. The conclusions confirmed [...]
On the Road with Automotive
I had the pleasure of spending past three weeks on the road talking to many members of the automotive IVI (in-vehicle infotainment) software supply community in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Interestingly, a little-known fact: IVI represents up to 80% of all software running in today’s premium class cars (up to 100 million lines of [...]
