Software Development

CoreOS Linux distro lands on the Google Cloud Platform

Designed for massive server deployments, CoreOS consumes less than 200MB of working memory per instance

Dept. of Homeland Security tools aimed at Heartbleed-like security evils

DHS-funded Software Assurance Marketplace aspires to find breakthroughs in code security analysis

Silly rabbit, there’s no such thing as DevOps in a box

No matter what some may tell you, you can't by DevOps in a box.

Driverless cars could cripple law enforcement budgets

15 most powerful OpenStack companies

OpenStack is no one company, it's a community and these are its most important members

Unix: Database connection testing

Before you try to try to get your Unix system collecting data from a database that someone else manages, you might want to run some simple tests from a Windows desktop. Yes, I said "Windows".

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IEEE’s Rock Stars of Mobile Cloud: No Rock, But a Few Stars

I attended the IEEE’s recent Rock Stars of Mobile Cloud event in Boston. Here are few interesting observations from a very diverse set of presenters.

Mozilla embraces DRM. Wait, What?!

Mozilla's acceptance of DRM for Firefox was done for market share purposes, and it's a complete 180 from Mozilla's previous stance on the issue.

Tufts University named best open-source school in America

A new report identifies the U.S. colleges and universities doing the most to promote the use of open-source software.