Software Development

MIT Media Lab sponsors hackathon pushing limits of VR and AR

During Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 7-10, participants will create new applications for AR and VR technology, perhaps some that have never been conceived before

PowerShell for Linux makes it easier to mix clients, servers and clouds

Multiple platforms are now the norm for IT infrastructure. To address that Microsoft is bringing its key configuration tools to Linux and Mac OS to make it easier for customers and partners to handle their workloads, which also positions Operations M

Microsoft PowerShell goes open source and lands on Linux and Mac

The folks in Redmond really do love the open source operating system

Google’s new Fuchsia OS may take over the IoT

Analysts see it as independent of Android and Chrome, set on different market

Microsoft’s .Net Framework will get its own Patch Tuesday

Starting in October, the .Net Framework Monthly Rollup will provide regular security and quality updates

Sencha helps modernize legacy Oracle apps

Sencha partners with 4Morphis to help customers migrate their Oracle Forms applications onto a modern web/mobile context

Review: 6 slick open source routers

DD-WRT, Tomato, OpenWrt, OPNsense, pfSense, and VyOS suit a wide range of devices and networking needs

Open source R extension simplifies data science with IBM Watson

Open source R extension is designed to help data scientists access a bevy of Watson services without leaving their native development environment.

Open vSwitch finds new home at the Linux Foundation

The U.S. government now has an open source policy—but it doesn’t go far enough

The Federal Source Code policy would be better if it mandated all agency source code be released under a free software license to the public