[ad_1] The focus of Node.js over the last year has been to increase the number of contributors working on the project. Node.js has seen sustained 100% year-over-year user growth for several years, but the number of contributors was, at one point, actually on the decline. After a year+ of community building and iteration we’re now…

[ad_1] The open source ecosystem grows every day, and with the proliferation of mobile devices around the globe, perhaps never has it been more important than now to make sure that phone and tablet users get access to the same high-quality open source software options that desktop users have long enjoyed. I want to take…

[ad_1] digiKam bills itself as a digital photo management application. Suffice it to say that digiKam is a humble application, because “digital photo management” barely touches on the feature set. digiKam basics If you don’t have digiKam installed, you can either grab it for Linux, Windows, or, with a little bit of work, on OS…

[ad_1] One occasionally runs into a company trying to build an open source project out of an existing product. This is a nuanced problem. This is not a company that owns a project published under an open source license trying to also ship a product of the same name (e.g. Docker, MySQL), but the situation shares…

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[ad_1] According to the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, “Passwords are a common form of authentication and are often the only barrier between a user and your personal information. There are several programs attackers can use to help guess or ‘crack’ passwords, but by choosing good passwords and keeping them confidential, you can make it…

[ad_1] This article is co-authored by Jon Haddad. There’s been a huge surge of interest around the Apache Cassandra database due to the increasing uptime and performance demands of modern cloud applications. So, what is Apache Cassandra? A distributed OLTP database built for high availability and linear scalability. When people ask what Cassandra is used…

[ad_1] I had the good fortune to to be able to interview Donna Benjamin and Leslie Hawthorn, both of whom are world-renowned community experts. Leslie is a developer engagement strategist who works at Red Hat and sits on several key nonprofit boards. In addition to running her own company, Donna also sits on many boards…

[ad_1] This year marks the 10th annual Future of Open Source Survey to examine trends in open source, hosted by Black Duck and North Bridge. The big takeaway from the survey this year centers around the mainstream acceptance of open source today and how much has changed over the last decade. The 2016 Future of Open Source Survey analyzed responses…