Category Archives: open source

“The Last True Hacker” Now Selling Signed Books

Posted on June 2, 2011 by admin

The Free Software Foundation is has launched second editions of two landmark publications by Richard Stallman, a.k.a. rms, “the last true … Continue reading →

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A Look Back at Eight Years of WordPress

Posted on May 28, 2011 by admin

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. O… Continue reading →

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Celebrating 20 Years of Linux [INFOGRAPHIC]

Posted on April 7, 2011 by admin

You’ve come a long way, Tux the Penguin. The Linux Foundation is celebrating 20 years of the famous FOSS operating system, Linux — o… Continue reading →

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Closed or Open Source: Which CMS is Right for Your Business?

Posted on April 5, 2011 by admin

The goal of any web development agency is to deliver a website that not only looks attractive but is also manageable. It seems there are new co… Continue reading →

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U.S. Government Open-Sources IT Dashboard to Help Cut Tech Costs

Posted on April 1, 2011 by admin

The United States government has made its IT Dashboard, a cost-cutting tool for federal transparency, freely available for anyone, especially ot… Continue reading →

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Linux Foundation Announces Designated Gurus for 2011

Posted on March 28, 2011 by admin

Five open source experts have been proclaimed gurus by the Linux Foundation, a title awarded for outstanding contributions to the FOSS community… Continue reading →

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Is “Closing” Honeycomb the Beginning of an Androidocalypse? Hardly.

Posted on March 25, 2011 by admin

Earlier today, we learned that Google would be limiting access to the source code for Android 3.0, a.k.a. Honeycomb, its tablet-specific OS. For… Continue reading →

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Host Your Node.js Apps With Ease

Posted on January 18, 2011 by admin

Fans of Node.js will appreciate today’s finding: NodeFu, a sort of Heroku for Node.js. The incredible success of Node.js last year was one… Continue reading →

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Drupal 7.0 Available Now

Posted on January 5, 2011 by admin




After nearly three years of development, Drupal 7.0 is officially available. The latest release of the open source content management system tha… Continue reading →

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Google Gives $5M Worth of Java GUI Tools to Eclipse

Posted on December 19, 2010 by admin




Google has donated two open-source Java tools to the Eclipse Foundation to join the popular IDE suite in 2011.
The tech giant’s WindowBuil… Continue reading →

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