Get into a conversation with a developer, and you might find out that he or she is self-taught. Some developers started off as hobbyists with no computer science degree. Others watched videos and took courses online to add skills to their résumé. Like other passionate developers that take studying and learning the ins and outs … continue reading
There are always programming languages coming out that claim to be better than the last. However, one programming language is taking a new approach to programming. Eve is a new kind of language and IDE that is designed with the human in mind, not the machine. “We’ve made tremendous advancements since the early days of … continue reading
There is a new general-purpose operating system looking to win over developers’ hearts. Minoca OS is built for connected devices that just went open source. “We’re excited to build a community of users and developers around this new operating system, and we need help,” wrote Evan Green, CEO and cofounder of Minoca OS, in a … continue reading
OK, Apple, we get it. You want to converge your product lines into one iOS brand, with one operating system and only two or three lines of products: iPhones, iPads, and iDesktops. This is clearly the vision that Jobs was going for, and it’s an obvious goal on the road map to Apple’s future. Problem … continue reading
Go to Quora and type in the question, “How do I get a job at Google?” and you’ll be flooded with answers from software engineers, developers and former interns of Google. They all seem to have their own advice and strategies on how to get hired at the tech giant. John Washam, current founder and … continue reading
Tomorrow, the final chapter of the Da Vinci Code saga, “Inferno,” hits theaters. While Tom Hanks scours the ancient past for mysteries and riddles, there’s a deeper evil brewing in the form of a deadly virus waiting to infect the world and bring the series to its denouement. In the real world, however, viral propagation … continue reading
We are facing a far greater problem than the gender imbalance in the technology industry: Women are on the cusp of becoming extinct in the field. There have been numerous attempts to engage women in computer science and to make software companies more diverse, but those attempts have failed to make a dent in the … continue reading
They finally did it: They made “artificial intelligence” a buzzword. Typically, buzzwords don’t come from decades-old evolving disciplines of computer science. Making “machine learning,” “AI” and “neural nets” into buzzwords means that millions of developers are likely having their first experience with this stuff now. In that vein, we bring you a nice long list … continue reading
Google recently released its open-source report card, and one particular project caught our eye, so we’ve decided to feature it as our GitHub project of the week. In today’s online software world, the demands are always changing, making it difficult for software developers to keep up. Yeoman is a set of tools designed to help … continue reading
After using the successful npm client for years, a group of Facebook engineers realized that the size of the codebase and the number of engineers grew too much to handle. They needed to create a new package manager to reliably manage all the dependencies, while still giving engineers access to the npm registry. The result … continue reading
Walmart isn’t only known for slashing prices. It’s also known for its tech division, WalmartLabs, which has developed several open-source projects, including this week’s GitHub project of the week: Electrode. Walmart serves nearly 260 million customers who visit its 11,504 stores. Knowing that technology and software is always changing, Walmart has been ramping up its … continue reading
Pieter Hintjens, Belgian software developer and past president of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), gave much of his time and effort to the open-source community. He did so even up until the day he planned for his own death, which was today. Hintjens, who chose euthanasia today after dealing with terminal cancer, … continue reading
Osquery wants to make it easy for you to manage your infrastructure. This week’s GitHub project of the week is a SQL-powered detection tool designed to give users real-time insights in order to make informative decisions. It provides intrusion detection, infrastructure reliability, and compliance. “As adoption for osquery grew, a strong and active community emerged … continue reading
For this blog to make any sense, you’re going to need a little bit of backstory and history. If you know what a roguelike game is, you can skip ahead two paragraphs. If you know what curses is, you can also skip ahead two paragraphs. But if not, a brief explanation of the two terms … continue reading
