Software Development

How to extract custom data from Google Analytics

You can use a programming language like R to bypass the Google Analytics Web interface to retrieve the data you want. Here's a step-by-step.

Is open source encryption the answer to NSA snooping?

Going the open source route to encrypt enterprise data has its own potential pitfalls

Unix: Debugging your scripts even more effectively

Last week's post provided some tips and tricks for debugging scripts. This week's provides some even better ones!

Raspberry Pi is running a bar in England

A PhD student at Oxford didn't like how the campus pub was being run, so he hacked a Raspberry Pi to make it better.

Facebook Open Sources Its Embedded Database Code

Facebook goes open source with its workhorse embedded data store

Facebook's RocksDB is an embeddable, persistent key-value store designed for fast reads and writes

How open data can keep us safe

Two murderers escape via hacking court documents.

Smartwatches are basically useless

The buzz around smartwatches will fade once people realize there's no actual reason to buy one.

How to introduce Linux to your little kid

What are the best ways to get kids interested in Linux at an early age?

New OpenSUSE embraces 64-bit ARM

The newly released OpenSUSE 13.1 distribution comes with the latest version of OpenSrtack