Leftovers: OSS and Sharing
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F5’s Latest Updates Give a Nod to Developers
As virtual appliances become a bigger part of its business, F5 is tweaking some of its products to better fit the concept of developers programming the network.
The company has separated its orchestration tool from its management tool. The latter, which involves monitoring the network and making sure features such as high availability are viable, is still within the purview of networking people. But orchestration and provisioning of services is becoming more of a programmer’s job.
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Building a bootstrapped business on open source
Back in 2009, our day-to-day life at Planio was writing software for clients. Client work is often fun, but there can also be a feeling that you're stuck on a hamster wheel of endlessly churning through projects, always looking for new customers.
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Getting started with Node-RED
Node-RED is a browser-based flow editor that lets users wire together hardware devices, APIs, and online services in new and interesting ways.
Node-RED's nodes are like npm packages, and you can get them the same way. And because Node-RED has a built-in text editor, you can make applications as complex as you like by adding JavaScript functions.
Because Node-RED is based on Node.js and takes advantage of the event-driven, non-blocking model, it can be run on low-cost hardware like the Raspberry Pi or in the cloud.
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PyBERT: Open-Source Software for Modeling High-Speed Links
PyBERT by David Banas frees you from IBIS-AMI models, which have their limitations, for modeling high-speed SerDes devices and systems for signal integrity.
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Report: Firefox Overtakes IE and Edge For the First Time
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EFF wants to save Firefox from the W3C and DRM
THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION (EFF) and web stalwart BoingBoing are fretting about the future of Firefox after moves by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that they claim threaten competition and liberty.
A post on the EFF blog and BoingBoing pages warned that the W3C's weakening approach to openness threatens the future of the browser, which once looked like the only thing that could save the internet.
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Notes for my HTCondor Week talk
I’m delighted to have a chance to present at HTCondor Week this year and am looking forward to seeing some old friends and collaborators. The thesis of my talk is that HTCondor users who aren’t already leading data science initiatives are well-equipped to start doing so.
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SQLite 3.13 Released With Session Extension, Postponed I/O For Temp Files
SQLite 3.13 was released today as the newest version of this widely-used and relied upon embedded SQL database library.
SQLite 3.13 integrates the Session Extension, which is used for generating change/patch-sets into a file for applying the same set of changes to another database with the same schema. This session extension can be used for merging changes from multiple users working off the same baseline database back into the original database and other use-cases where you may want to mege a "patch" of the changes to an original database. More details on SQLite's Session Extension can be found via this documentation page.
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Open Source Content Management and Site Analytics Solutions are Flourishing
Whether you want to run a top-notch website or a blog, or manage content in the cloud, open source content management systems (CMS) and analytics tools have come of age. You're probably familiar with some of the big names in this arena, including Drupal (which Ostatic is based on) and Joomla. As we noted in this post, selecting a CMS to build around can be a complicated process, since the publishing tools provided are hardly the only issue.
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Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup: May 20
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Full-system Infinity preview coming up
I’ve released bits and pieces of Infinity over the past year, but nothing that really brings everything together. Right now I’m working on an initial full-system release of everything to do with Infinity so far.
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The Licensing and Compliance Lab interviews Kees Verruijt of CANboat
Kees Verruijt is a sailing software engineer from Harlingen, NL. He maintains CANboat, which he describes as "[a] small but effective set of command-line utilities to work with CAN networks on BOATs".
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40 governments commit to open contracting to fight corruption
Forty government organisations have committed to implementing open contracting in an attempt to fight corruption. They did so at the Anti-Corruption Summit 2016, which took place in London last week.
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Welcome to Academic Torrents!
We've designed a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds.
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DevOps model, a profile in CIO leadership, change management
CTO Alexander Pluim described his company's situation as typical: An enterprise technology system has issues, no one is sure what is going wrong, but each worker is positive it isn't his fault.
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