Software Development

5 Unusual Unix Commands for Cinco de Mayo

Microsoft brings Visual Studio to Linux, Macs

Linux vendor Cumulus rolls out management pack

Based on Cumulus network operating system code, designed for consistent rack management

Build an HTML5 Game: A Developer’s Guide with CSS and JavaScript

Meet the new leader of Debian open source project

Neil McGovern works for open source consultancy, has been Debian developer for 10 years

Cool tools for compiling to JavaScript

Little languages abound to bring your code to the Web with surprising ease and few compromises

How Unix systems administration is like filing your taxes

Juniper, VMware ride into OpenDaylight sunset

Downgrade participation in the open source SDN project citing roles in other organizations

Network packet brokers vs. TAPS: An SDN management battle

SDN management tools include TAP monitoring applications and network packet brokers (NPB), which negotiate network traffic from multiple SPAN ports and manipulate it to allow more efficient use of monitoring devices like TAPs. There’s a debate about

7 reasons why frameworks are the new programming languages

Thanks to powerful tools, the need for speed, and the shifting nature of programming itself, your next nerd fight will be over framework APIs, not syntax