Software Development

The Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter: Cheap, hackable, and thoroughly awesome

The Crazyflie is amazing not just in its design, specification, and performance but for being completely open and inviting improvement and enhancement.

MapR Aims to Take SQL-on-Hadoop to Next Level

Seeking to eliminate the need to manage schemas and perform time-consuming ETL tasks on incoming data before exploring it, MapR is adding the Apache Drill distributed ANSI SQL query engine to its Hadoop distribution.

Samsung’s first open-source conference kicks off, with Tizen on its mind

Could Tizen finally be headed for a wider role?

Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Executive Director on the group’s achievements, goals

7 reasons Apple should open-source Swift — and 7 reasons it won’t

Unix: Scripting with templates

One of the best ways to write scripts quickly and effectively is to never start from scratch.

OpenSSL warns vendors against using vulnerability info for marketing

Good coding practices for bash

When building scripts, a little consistency and care can pay off in the long run.

How-to: Automate image editing with GIMP

GIMP is free, open source software that rivals Photoshop and when you automate it, life can become a whole lot easier

Debunking the top open source myths