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OSS is Not Focused on Customer Service

Are you one of those developers who can’t get his/her boss to let you download/prototype/use a Really Cool™ software package that happens to be...

6 replies - 5079 views - 05/01/13 by Ted Neward in Articles

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner

ScaleBase Overview – Your complete scale out partner Watch the Video below to learn how to scale out your MySQL Database with ScaleBase. Cost-effectively...

0 replies - 302 views - 02/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/11/13)

IoC Containers Considered Harmful  Øyvind Bakksjø is a bit skeptical of where the Java community is heading.  Although he's completely fine with...

0 replies - 2290 views - 02/11/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (1/25/13)

9 Uncomfortable Truths About Open Source  I wouldn't call them truths for sure, but this article is certainly a little sobering.  The author...

1 replies - 6253 views - 01/25/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

ActuateOne for OEMs

"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...

0 replies - 340 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized

Weekly Poll: Open Source in 2012

As we head toward the end of the year, we began wondering what the most significant achievements and trends in the tech industry have been during 2012. The...

0 replies - 5571 views - 12/21/12 by Bill Armstrong in Articles

2 Open Source Tools to Manage MySQL Servers Like a Champ

Box has two great open-source tools which will help you manage your MySQL servers like the pros: Anemometer will change the way you look at query performance...

0 replies - 5084 views - 11/20/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Interview with Howard Lewis Ship at DevRates.com

Today our guest is Howard Lewis Ship from the Apache Tapestry team. In the first part of the interview, Howard discusses origins of Tapestry, evolution...

0 replies - 1900 views - 11/19/12 by Piotr Jagielski in Articles

Installing And Running Hubot - A Bot for Automation and Fun!

In this post we are going to learn how to install hubot and make it work over XMPP protocol (using an openfire server).  We'll also see how it can...

0 replies - 8296 views - 10/25/12 by Alex Soto in Articles

Python Screencast: Install/Setup "SST Web Test Framework" on Ubuntu 12.04

I uploaded a 5 minute video/screencast showing how to install and setup SST Web Test Framework on Ubuntu (Precise Pangolin 12.04). I step through:...

0 replies - 2194 views - 04/22/12 by Corey Goldberg in Articles

Microsoft Births Open-Source Subsidiary

It looks like the folks at Redmond have declared that it's time to wrap their arms around the open source philosophy. Microsoft and open source? Say what?...

0 replies - 3713 views - 04/13/12 by Prasant Lokinendi in Articles

Apache Lucene and Solr 3.6 Release! New Language Analysis, Joins, and Finite-State APIs

Lucene / Solr 3.6 has been released and is available for download. As release manager, here’s my take on the new features: Language analysis: Newly added...

0 replies - 5195 views - 04/13/12 by Robert Muir in Articles

14 Ways to Contribute to Solr without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star

Last week, the venerable Andy Lester posted his “14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star“. It’s a...

0 replies - 4136 views - 04/02/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles

JSON.org License Literally Says it "shall be used for Good, not Evil"

Here’s a license for a library you probably use right now. Notice the clause I circled in an alarmist shade of red: If you saw this license...

0 replies - 38891 views - 03/12/12 by Brian Fox in Articles

GitHub Was Hacked Over the Weekend - Here's What Happened, From Multiple Sources

Hacker News exploded yesterday with news of GitHub being hacked. Wanting to know what all the fuss was about, I began with GitHub's side of the story: A...

2 replies - 11773 views - 03/05/12 by Chris Shiflett in News