It's Ada Lovelace Day! Learn the Ada programming language in 2021: In the 1970s, many programming languages were hyperspecific to the hardware they controlled. As a result, developers had to learn to code differently depending on the hardware they were programming. Debugging and maintenance were highly specialized, and code wasn’t reusable across machines. The UK …
Why it's important to keep the cloud open: There’s a famous sticker featured on many laptop lids; it goes something like this: “the ‘cloud’ is just somebody else’s computer.” There’s a lot of truth to that sentiment, but it’s not exactly technically accurate. In fact, cloud computing isn’t just somebody else’s computer; it’s somebody else’s …
Why it's time to embrace top-down cybersecurity practices: Cybersecurity is no longer just the domain of the IT staff putting in firewalls and backing up servers. It takes a commitment from the top and a budget to match. The stakes are high when it comes to keeping your customers’ information safe. read more: Opensource.com mshealy …
Why it's important to get kids into public speaking: Although she’s only 16 years old, Keila Banks is already a veteran presenter at technology conferences. Her courage to get on stage in front of adults, beginning at the very young age of 11, to talk about open source technology has opened a world of opportunities …
GNOME at 20: Four reasons it's still my favorite GUI: The GNOME desktop turns 20 on August 15, and I’m so excited! Twenty years is a major milestone for any open source software project, especially a graphical desktop environment like GNOME that has to appeal to many different users. The 20th anniversary is definitely something to …
Ops: It's everyone's job now: Today is Sysadmin Appreciation Day. Turn to your nearest and dearest systems administrator and be sure to thank them for the work they do. “Ops is over.” “Sysadmins? That’s so old school.” “All the good engineering teams are automating operations out of existence.” read more: Opensource.com charity Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: …
Compute like it's 1989: For many of us, when we look around at the state of computing in 2016, we nod and think, “Yes, today is what I expected when I thought about what The Future would be like.” Sure, we haven’t got flying cars yet, but today’s technology is flashy. We swipe fingers across …
Secret Lab, or more specifically, Paris Buttfield-Addison and Jon Manning, introduced themselves at Linux.conf.au 2016 during their talk Open Data + Video Games = Win: “We write books and have made games for iconic Australia brands.” [Watch a video of the talk] Which is accurate. They also sometimes do things like make Pokemon-style games based …