Resources for Mobile, Agile and Cloud
Are you prepared for the Internet of Things? A world in which virtually all devices, from your shoes to your refrigerator, will be connected to the net and transmitting data, 24/7? If you’re a developer, you’d best be ready, because the IoT train shows no signs of slowing … [Read more...]
You want your code to be healthy and bug-free. How about starting with yourself? Let's face it: Programmers, on average, don't have the healthiest of lifestyles. We sit too much, often in one position for hours. When we get absorbed in figuring out problems we forget to … [Read more...]
WebKit long has been the dominant open source Web-rendering engine, but with Google's Blink fork, its future has turned murky. For years, WebKit was easily the most popular Web-browser rendering engine. It was the foundation for no fewer than three of the most popular Web … [Read more...]
Your open source project is one of thousands, so how do you help its community grow? Start with project management, great documentation, and a road map. At LinuxCon North America, held September 16-18 in New Orleans, community manager Lars Kurth presented a case study … [Read more...]
You've written some code, you think it would be useful to the world, and you'd like to give back to the open source world. But how do you do it? An experienced open source guy provides a checksheet for developers to release an open source project and get it noticed. You … [Read more...]
If you want a tech job, you want to be in Linux and open source software. Because that’s where the employers are slathering to find qualified personnel. And they want you. There I was, at perhaps the biggest hard-core, open source conference of them all these days, OSCon. … [Read more...]
Knowing Your Organization’s Skills Unless you’re in a disagreement with someone, an audit trail is seldom of interest to a developer. Audit trails, by their very nature, are intended to allow oversight – who did what when? And as management tools, they can be very useful … [Read more...]
You don't have to contribute your code to the world to gain advantages from open source methods. An expert offers suggestions on how to use open source practices to run internal code bases effectively. Let's say your business doesn't have one bit of interest in sharing … [Read more...]
After spinning the idea around in our heads for some time, SmartBear finally put on a killer Stump!-style trivia match on Wednesday night. Hosted at the Bocoup Loft in Boston’s Innovation District, the event drew in 30-something competitors who split up into six teams and … [Read more...]
Programmers come and go. Teams expand and contract. How you deal with the varying coding styles of new hires (and sometimes veterans) can be either a deterrent or encouragement – depending on your process. “It's not at all important to get it right the first time. It's … [Read more...]
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