While some believe it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie, Netflix puts its...
Open Source Delivers
Open Source Wrap Up: The Alliance for Open Media & Netflix’s Sleepy Puppy
While some believe it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie, Netflix puts its sleeping dogs to work! Sleepy Puppy, Netflix’s latest open source release, can help make cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability detection faster and […]
Read More3 Steps to Improve Open Source Security in Agile Software Development
Open source and agile development go together like bricks and mortar in the construction of software applications. While agile development is focused on smaller teams and open source is generally […]
Read MoreOpen Source Wrap Up: The White House’s Open Data Map & Microsoft’s Open Browser
If you love open data and tinkering with digital maps, then the White House has a treat for you! The Obama administration recently released an interactive open data map showing various […]
Read MoreDeveloping Enterprise-Ready Plugins
My greatest surprise at the Jenkins User Conference (JUC) 2014 in Boston was how many enterprise Jenkins CI users had developed plugins for their own use. I had not pictured […]
Read MoreOpen Source Wrap Up: News From LinuxCon & GitHub’s Chart of Top Coding Languages
LinuxCon brought big announcements, excitement, and surprises to Seattle this week. IBM introduced two Linux-only mainframe servers, the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) launched a new security badge program, and Linux creator […]
Read MoreWhy Companies Support Open Source Software: Divio’s Perspective
Beginning roughly 30 years ago as mostly a hobbyist pastime, open source software has now become a powerful and pervasive force in companies of all shapes and sizes. Android dominates the mobile OS […]
Read MoreOpen Source Wrap Up: Android Experiments and Other New Project Releases
A celebration of creativity and code! That is how Google announced Android Experiments, the open mobile platform’s new online destination celebrating the most inspiring projects from the global Android developer community. […]
Read MoreLas Vegas – Where Black Hats and Black Ducks Meet
Last week the Black Duck team attended Black Hat 2015. This multi-day conference and tradeshow is where security researchers, hackers, vendors, and other showmen meet to review the last year […]
Read MoreOpen Source and The Internet of Things: A Reality Check
Every time I turn around, a company or consortium announces another Internet of Things (IoT) platform. And, while only some of the touted IoT underpinnings are open source, there is […]
Read MoreOpen Source Wrap Up: GitHub’s $2B Valuation & HP’s Acquisition of The Stackato PaaS
It’s always nice to see VC’s supporting the development of open source software. Raising $250 million in a new round of funding, GitHub is now valued at $2 billion. And you […]
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