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Open Source Project Hosting. Open Source Search Engine. What is open source software? The term "open source" refers to something that can be modified and shared because its design is publicly accessible.

What is open source software?

Open Source Governance & Compliance. Top enterprise-ready, open source business tools. This article reviews three top open source business intelligence and reporting tools.

Top enterprise-ready, open source business tools

In economies of big data and open data, who do we turn to in order to have our data analysed and presented in a precise and readable format? This list covers those types of tools. The list is not exhaustive—I have selected tools that are widely used and can also meet enterprise requirements. And, this list is not meant to be a comparison—this is a review of what is available. Improving CMS development with open source. Content management is a mix of development, design, marketing, information architecture, user experience, and more.

Improving CMS development with open source

In the past 15 years, content management has evolved, but its foundation—how users create, manage, and deliver content—has remained relatively stable. Websites are still a core asset of most businesses, which means the CMS has become increasingly important. THandBrake - Project Web Hosting - Open Source Software. Top Twitter Open Source Projects You Must Know. Twitter engineers use, contribute to and release a lot of open source software and their GitHub repo is a proof of that.

Top Twitter Open Source Projects You Must Know

Twitter has 131 public repos, maintained by 116 active twitter members around the globe. Twitter as such started as a simple Ruby on Rails application but soon realized that – to meet the scale demand of twitter, they need to re-invent and revamp the entire platform. Open source stargazing apps Stellarium and Celestia.

There was a time when visiting a planetarium involved more than turning on your computer.

Open source stargazing apps Stellarium and Celestia

I have long been fascinated with the night sky, but I live an hour's ride from the nearest planetarium. The Top Five Open Source Navigation Apps. Linux Scoop - Linux and Open Source Video Sharing. NSA Releases Open Source Network Security Tool for Linux. The United States National Security Agency (NSA) has released a network security tool for Government and the private sectors to help secure their networks against cyber attacks.

NSA Releases Open Source Network Security Tool for Linux

Dubbed Systems Integrity Management Platform (SIMP), the tool is now publicly available on the popular source code sharing website GitHub. According to an official release from NSA, SIMP makes it easier for government organizations and the private sector to "fortify their networks against cyber threats. " SIMP aims at providing a reasonable combination of security compliance and operational flexibility, keeping networked systems compliant with security standards and requirements. It is considered to be a critical part of a layered, "defence-in-depth" approach to information security. "By releasing SIMP, the agency seeks to reduce duplication of effort and promote greater collaboration within the community: The wheel would not have to be reinvented for every organization," says the NSA.

Where are they now? 5 open source projects. Taiga is an open source project management tool. Whether you are a developer, project manager, or a stakeholder of any level—you’d like to have a clear view of where the project is headed.

Taiga is an open source project management tool

Are the deadlines being continuously achieved? How is the load on developers? BIRT Report Designer - Project Web Hosting - Open Source Software. Preparing open source developers through undergraduate software engineering courses. Academia is an excellent platform for training and preparing the open source developers of tomorrow.

Preparing open source developers through undergraduate software engineering courses

In research, we occasionally open source software we write. We do this for two reasons. One, to promote the use of the tools we produce. And two, to learn more about the impact and issues other people face when using them. With this background of writing research software, I was tasked with redesigning the undergraduate software engineering course for second-year students at the University of Bradford. It was a challenge, as I was faced with 80 students coming for different degrees, including IT, business computing, and software engineering, all in the same course. I decided to redesign the course to give students insight into the process of working on real-world software teams. The core lessons The course format was updated to have both lectures and lab sessions. Collaboration tools To make all of the above possible, a number of tools were introduced. Tips and lessons learned. Open source machine learning resources to get you started.

Despite all the flashy headlines from Musk and Hawking on the impending doom to be visited on us mere mortals by killer robots from the skies, machine learning and artificial intelligence are here to stay.

Open source machine learning resources to get you started

More importantly, machine learning (ML) is quickly becoming a critical skill for developers to enhance their applications and their careers, better understand data, and to help users be more effective. What is machine learning? It is the use of both historical and current data to make predictions, organize content, and learn patterns about data without being explicitly programmed to do so. 5 Best Practices for Security in Open Source Development.

Let's look at five best practices for working with security in open source programming.

5 Best Practices for Security in Open Source Development

When you write software, there's a high likelihood that you'll have to include some kind of security. Plenty of open source libraries are available to help you add security, but you have to do it right. Otherwise, you'll be asking for big trouble later, which might include your client getting featured on the national news. The value of teaching students about open source principles. Top 5 open source project management tools in 2014. Last year, Opensource.com covered some popular open source project management tools (ProjectLibre, ]project-open[, and OpenProject.)

We found these articles to be valuable to our readers, so here we take a look forward at what we think 2014 holds for these open source project management tools. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but each tool listed here has been deliberately selected based on a rich feature set. VSCO Keys is now an open source project hosted on Github. Keys, VSCO’s keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Lightroom, was discontinued at the end of August.

Now, VSCO has open sourced Keys, making much of the underlying code available via Github. VSCO says code for the installer can be found on Github. The company also notes “while the current layout editor has been discontinued, users can continue to edit their layouts with a text editor using resources that have been provided in the source code.” Keys will be supported for existing users until the end of the year, but VSCO will not update Keys for OS X El Capitan or Windows 10. While VSCO obviously has no plans for Keys moving forward, its lack of support and subsequent open sourcing would make a good jumpstart for someone who wanted to create their own software. En la Biblioteca Vaticana solo se fían del Open Source.

La Biblioteca Vaticana o Biblioteca Apostólica Vaticana, no cuesta imaginarlo, es una de las más antiguas y valiosas del mundo. Open standards and interoperability. Open standards are stable, published formats for data and services that are independent of any individual supplier. They are essential for systems and data to be interoperable. Without open standards, open data can realise only a fraction of its value. Because CKAN is built on open standards, it helps data from different sources work together. It also ensures that users are never “locked in”: data and metadata in CKAN can easily be harvested into a different system. HTML is the lingua franca of the Web, the language spoken by every web page and browser. Empieza tu proyecto Open Source en las plataformas más conocidas. Bitbucket. Voy a finalizar la mini serie de tutoriales “paso a paso” en donde mostrar las plataformas más utilizadas para compartir proyectos Open Source en las diferentes comunidades y lenguajes.

Ahora voy a centrarme en la plataforma de la empresa Atlassian, que es profusamente utilizada en el mundo de desarrollo, y que es parte de su ecosistema de herramientas lideradas por Jira: Bitbucket. Calidad Atlassian, pensado para su ecosistema La plataforma tiene un funcionamiento característico de su fabricante: funcional, eficiente y con las opciones que se necesitan. Así entre las cosas que puedo realizar están: Las grandes empresas ya viven en la era del Open Source. Which Light Weight, Open Source Web Server is Right for You? If you use Linux, most likely Apache is your web server of choice. Apache is a great choice. It’s incredibly powerful, very reliable, and secure. There may, however, be certain deployments that either do not need all of the features found in Apache, do not have the resources to support Apache (such as in the case of an embedded system), or need something easier to manage. If that’s the case, fear not ─ there are plenty of light weight, open source, web servers out there ready to meet and exceed your needs.

Let’s take a look at some of the best small footprint web servers available and find out which one is right for you. What's in the new Digital Single Market Strategy from the EU for open source? After months of preparation, the European Commission (EC) released its broad 5-year roadmap in early May for information and communications technology (ICT) policy, the Digital Single Market Strategy, or DSM. DropIt download. Snappy Driver Installer download. Windows Audio & Video Software - SourceForge.net. THandBrake. HPCC Systems. SymmetricDS. RyA ERP. How to View the Source Code of a Chrome Extension. Every Chrome extension that you install on your computer is actually constructed out of a special zip file that contains files and folders of Javascript code and other resources.

The great thing is that you can actually look into the source code of an extension and see what it is really doing. The problem with browser extensions is that so many of them are spying on you, inserting ads into your browser, or doing all sorts of other nefarious things. So if you want to check into the source code yourself, these are the two easy ways to do that. Luckily there’s even a way to see the source code of an extension before you install it, although sadly that way requires installing an extension. Keep reading for all the details. Find a Chrome Extension Source Code on Your Hard Drive The first method is used to view the source code of extensions that are currently installed in your Google Chrome Browser.

Once there, type in the following into the location bar: %localappdata% That’s all there is to it.