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DevX: Open source components can be a boon for your software development, but they can also present risks. These 10 tips will help you manage the use and risks of open source throughout the application development lifecycle.

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Open Source Insider: "In the early 90's, the image of open source could be likened to John Lennon - ahead of its time and slightly 'out there.' By that I mean the general impression of it as an approach to software development was that it was out of the ordinary and challenged conventional thought."

Job postings for the past week:

• Job Posting: Jacob Group (Recruiter) Seeks Director of Software Development (Lacrosse, WI)
• Job Posting: Skillshare Seeks Senior Frontend Engineer (New York, NY)

I've been working on some changes to mtrack (a software development tracker implemented in PHP) this weekend, with a focus on improving the user experience for the mtrack administrator.

To be brutally honest, it was at best a meagre experience for the administrator, but now things are better.

They're still not perfect, but it should be a low enough bar to encourage more folks to play with mtrack. I've also spent a little bit of effort to add some caching to improve performance for certain pages.

For those that have tried it in the past, there's a ...

A few weeks ago, I and several others helped some friends of ours pack up their apartment into a truck in preparation for moving cross-country from Chicago to New York.

It was, as such moments generally are, bitter sweet. It's always a good feeling to help out a friend, but when you're helping them get further away from you it's not as pleasant.

Of course, me being me, what struck me most about the whole process was how well it served as a model for software development and project management in general.

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The objective of this whitepaper is to explain the software development challenge and how SoftFluent addresses it through its CodeFluent Entities model-driven software factory and related methodology.

Learn more.

Sometimes getting back to the basics is a good thing. Alan Skorkin has done just that in his latest post looking at the basics of URLs including their structure and what characters are allowed (or are special).

I talk a lot about how having a spec is a critical component of software development. But how do you know that your spec is good, and that it has been developed enough?

Simply put, how do you distinguish between a good spec and a spec that is lacking? This problem had confounded me for a [...]