Software Development

Open-source devs vote down anti-systemd measure, sponsor steps down

Ian Jackson resigns from technical committee after measure to slow systemd adoption fails.

Prominent developers pulling out of Debian as voting deadline nears

Clashes over systemd continue, with final voting deadline in hours

Open source code contains fewer defects, but there’s a catch

Research suggests that software developed using open source code contains fewer defects than that built with proprietary code. On the other hand, open source code rarely benefits from security teams specifically tasked with looking for bugs.

Rails Crash Course: A No-Nonsense Guide to Rails Development

no starch press, 2015

Sonatype aims to help developers reduce risk from open-source components

Amazon launches Lambda, an event-driven compute service

Microsoft open sources .Net server stack

Unix: Catching up with Unix errors

LibreOffice defends handling of spreadsheet bug

Users disconcerted by Calc’s sort function changes

Docker gets some competition with new Joyent, Canonical containers