Hiring managers say that open-source hiring will increase over the next six months, according to a 2016 Open Source Jobs Report that was released today. The survey was released by Dice and the Linux Foundation, and it is the fifth year they have released the survey. Since open source is an important part of businesses, … continue reading
After realizing his code “began to suck,” Lasse Schuirmann created an application called coala to make code analysis easy, while remaining completely modular, extensible and language-independent. Coala provides a user and developer interface, letting developers focus on logic only so that users can focus on content. Schuirmann said there are a lot of tools like … continue reading
GitLab is strongly recommending users upgrade to any of the newest versions for GitLab 8.2 through 8.7 GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) because they contain security fixes. One of the security fixes is for a critical privilege escalation. GitLab said that during an internal code review, it discovered a critical security flaw … continue reading
Lily wants to put expressiveness and type safety back into programming languages. It is a new programming language inspired by C, F#, Haskell, Python, Ruby and Rust. “My principal goal was for a language that could be used for Web development in a way akin to PHP (code is between tags, everything outside is format), … continue reading
An open-source project by Facebook has made it as SD Times’ GitHub project of the week. The project is called Wangle, and it is a client/server application framework to build asynchronous, event-driven modern C++ services. Facebook open-sourced this project last summer, but recently a Facebook software engineer named James Sedgwick wrote some software with Wangle, … continue reading
The real-time operating system that powers the Arduino 101 and Genuino 101 is open source, ready for those who want to use it for studying purposes. This package contains the complete BSP (Board Support Package) for the Curie processor on the 101. It allows developers to compile and modify the core OS and the firmware … continue reading
Puppet is inviting developers to take its annual State of DevOps survey. Through this survey over the years, Puppet has been able to survey more than 20,000 technical professionals and learned about IT and organizational performance. This year, Puppet has added new areas of research that reflect the community’s concern with DevOps. These areas include … continue reading
It was a productive week for the Apache Software Foundation and its projects, including Apache Allura, which released version 1.4.0 this week with new features for customization. Apache Allura is a completely self-hosted website that manages source-code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, and also blogs for other individual projects. It’s an open-source implementation of … continue reading
Developers aren’t just guys or gals sitting alone coding at their desks all day long. They like to chat, and they especially like to chat with other developers. This week’s GitHub project gives developers a home for professional communities by connecting them through messaging and discovery, bringing together 350,000 developers chatting daily in more than … continue reading
GitHub wants to be able to maintain the performance and reliability of its storage system, so it introduced DGit, a storage system that is designed to keep repositories fully available without interruption even if one of the servers goes down. DGit stands for “Distributed Git.” Git itself is distributed, so any copy of a Git … continue reading
Black Duck has announced version 3.0 of its open-source security solution, Hub, with increased code-scanning performance and new agile functionality. “Because of its widespread use, open source represents a large ‘attack surface’ where hackers can use (and reuse) vulnerabilities in open-source components to gain access to a large number of systems and sensitive data,” said … continue reading
Raintank, the open SaaS monitoring company behind Grafana, has been busy with the beta release of Grafana 3.0, a strategic collaboration between raintank and Intel, and the beta launch of Grafana.net. Grafana was created in 2014 by raintank cofounder Torkel Ödegaard, and it has become the de facto open-source solution for visualizing cloud telemetry data, … continue reading
