open source projects

Linux.com: Well, here we are, another year almost done for. Time to look back and take stock of the year that was.

You know what? It turns out that 2011 was a banner year for open source projects.

If you were to ask an average Android fan what the best part of the operating system was, there is a good chance that their reply would be that it’s an open source project.

The fact that it’s freely available to use and work with is the cornerstone of the Android movement.

However, is Android as wide open as users think?

The PHP North West conference has posted a video from this year's event - the keynote from Ian Barber of his "How to Stand on the Shoulders of Giants" session.

In a new article today on PHPMaster.com Robert Mariotti takes a look at standards and how important they can be when developing applications (both in following them and defining them correctly).

It's not specifically targeted at PHP developers, but it does give some good food for thought.

LinuxJournal: The Web site http://www.kickstarter.com is an interesting place. Basically, it's a site that allows people to invest in various projects, giving people real money to develop an idea.

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Tech Eye: "Open sauce developers are getting hit by an alarming trend amongst malware makers to take their code and counterfeit it, or place malware under the bonnet."

Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby and more commonly known as Matz, has joined Heroku, the Salesforce.com-owned Ruby cloud hosting company, as its Chief Architect of Ruby.

The H Open: "The splits and controversies around LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org have highlighted a number of issues concerning the licensing and corporate governance of open source projects and communities."