[ad_1] While I was putting together slides for my lightning talk at Great Wide Open (happening March 16-17), Not that Weird: Open Source Tools for Creatives, I remembered that in the last half of 2015 we had a bit of a loss from our open source creative toolbox. I think I was little late to the game in…

[ad_1] You may have heard the news recently that the MAME project has been licensed under the GPL version 2. MAME, which originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, is probably the largest and most complete game emulation systems ever created, with the ability to emulate many original gaming systems, largely from the 80s and…

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[ad_1] The growing trend of closed content silos—publishing platforms that require a login in order to view the content—is a step away from a more open web. As this trend continues, owners of closed silos will have even more control over published content and traffic that content drives. This is why content producers should also consider ways to publish content…

[ad_1] If you’re one of those people upgrading to the Raspberry Pi 3, you might wonder what to do with your old, lesser Pi. Aside from turning it into an array of blinking LEDs to entertain your cat, you might consider configuring it as a microcontroller. Making backups of our digital lives is, as most…

[ad_1] My Linux story started in 1998 and continues today. Back then, I worked for The Gap managing thousands of desktops running OS/2 (and a few years later, Warp 3.0). As an OS/2 guy, I was really happy then. The desktops hummed along and it was quite easy to support thousands of users with the…

[ad_1] Although the Raspberry Pi 3 was recently announced, the Raspberry Pi 2 still has plenty of life and is more than suitable for many interesting and useful tasks. I have a few Raspberry Pis sitting around that I’ve been exploring for other interesting projects, one of which is the possibility of replacing a very…

[ad_1] One of the most important resources that an open source project can provide to potential contributors is contributor guidelines. When eager new contributors rush over to your project to make their first open source contribution, they rely on your contributor guidelines to be their guiding hand. That means that contributor guidelines should be easy…

[ad_1] I was recently talking to an engineer friend of mine over of a cup of coffee at a conference. His company had been in “DevOps strategy planning” for over six months and they had settled on the task of automating the delivery of their software. He was feeling frustrated—there never seemed to be enough time…