software projects

One small step: NASA launches open source portal, aims to open m...

Linux Today  Sat, 01/07/2012 - 05:01

Ars Technica: "The open source software projects that are listed in the new code.nasa.gov directory at launch include a lunar mapper and an orbit determination toolbox."


 

Facebook's Open Compute - Good for IT?

Linux Today  Sat, 04/09/2011 - 13:17

InternetNews: "By releasing Open Compute Project technologies as open hardware, our goal is to develop servers and data centers following the model traditionally associated with open source software projects."


 

Howto write a Rule for PHPMD - Qafoo - PHP

Planet PHP  Mon, 03/21/2011 - 03:54

This blog post will give you a detailed introduction into the development of custom PHPMD rules. PHPMD is static code analysis tool that helps to improve the quality of PHP software projects.

Therefore it processes the project's source code and searches for known error patterns, design flaws, overcomplicated expressions and unused/dead code.

You would like to use like PHPMD to improve the quality of your project, but you are missing a features in the current release, then you should read this post.


 

10 Git Version Control Utilities to Make You More Effective

Linux Today  Mon, 02/07/2011 - 18:04

Developer.com: "I'm one of many developers who really enjoy using the Git version control system. A Git Groupie, if you will.

It's one of those software projects that just feels right practically from the very first commit."


 

Canonical copyright assignment policy 'same as others'

Linux Today  Fri, 01/29/2010 - 14:03

IT Wire: "Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has called for an uniform copyright assignment policy for contributors to free and open source software projects."


 

LinuxCon: Shuttleworth's Three Methods to Improve FOSS Developme...

Linux Today  Thu, 09/24/2009 - 14:36

Community-cation: "Shuttleworth has long maintained that if free and open source software projects can begin to sync their development cycles with each other, then both upstream and downstream developers (and, ultimately, users) will benefit."


 

How are Open Source Software Projects Surviving the Recession?

Linux Today  Sun, 08/09/2009 - 09:03

Linux.com: "The challenging U.S. economic recession has hit just about every segment of our economy--so how's it been affecting open source software development projects and their contributors?"


 

Best Practices for Troubleshooting Mobile Software

Linux Magazine: Top Stories  Mon, 07/13/2009 - 11:11

During software projects, you often have to eat some bugs. Just try not to chew on them.


 

A Class on Open Source Courseware

Linux Today  Mon, 06/08/2009 - 12:02

Linux.com: "Colleges and universities have long been proficient contributors to free and open source software projects, dating back to the early days of the Internet, so it should come as no surprise that they create open source software no meet their own operational needs.

One of the biggest fields is online courseware..."


 

Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 2

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Wed, 04/22/2009 - 11:57

In this article, I conclude my status report on the development of some of the most active notation software projects for Linux.

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