[ad_1] Opensource.com brought in 840,459 page views in April, giving us our second highest traffic month ever. We announced our first Open Source Yearbook print editions, which are available on Lulu. We published 97 articles and 5 series: read more [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight a Linux story about becoming a full stack engineer, how to make a Astro Pi flight case, DuckDuckGo on Instant Answers as they compete with search giants, an interview with a DrupalCon speaker about Arduino prototyping, and an interview with a user interface engineer prior to his talk at OSCON 2016. Top…

[ad_1] When smart devices are closed, they’re not smart at all. Netbeast is an open source platform for developing Internet of Things (IoT) applications for appliances and other devices. It’s an environment-agnostic platform that allows users to ignore details like wireless protocols, brand-specific public APIs, or device detection. One of Netbeast’s main goals is to…

[ad_1] I’ve got quite the treat for you today: an interview with experience analyst Catharine McNally and experience strategist David Spira, who work at Phase2 and are passionate about accessibility on the web—in particular, the part of the web that involves Drupal. They will be presenting, Easy Accessibility in Drupal 8: Practical, Compassionate, and Cost Effective at…

[ad_1] The Linux Foundation and Dice.com partnered to survey almost 5,000 open source professionals, and this week they unveiled the 2016 Open Source Jobs Report. The 2016 survey includes responses from more than 400 hiring managers and 4,500 open source professionals worldwide. According to the latest report, 65% of hiring managers see an increase in…

[ad_1] Andreia Gaita is giving a talk at this year’s OSCON, titled Confessions of a cross-platform developer. She’s a long-time open source and Mono contributor, and develops primarily in C#/C++. Andreia works at GitHub, where she’s focused on building the GitHub Extension manager for Visual Studio. I caught up with Andreia ahead of her talk to…

[ad_1] Back in 2014, my colleague Crystal Beasley started a thread of women in tech/hackers posting their “nerd stories” in response to some comments out there on the Internet about the lack of women in tech. This is my nerd story, shared with you because I do believe in role models, and I do believe…

[ad_1] For open source developer Mike Gifford, founder and president of OpenConcept Consulting Inc., any mention of Drupal accessibility after his name is redundant. He has spent the better part of 10 years improving and cementing accessibility in Drupal, enough to earn the role of official core accessibility maintainer for the project. Accessibility awareness has…

[ad_1] “I’m disappointed.” These were the first words to come from Damien in a recent one-to-one conversation we had. “I feel like the team doesn’t respect my position,” he told me. “I’m trying to engage with them, but they aren’t reciprocating.” Damien was clearly frustrated. “They had a meeting last week, for example, and I…

[ad_1] Brian Holt is a senior user interface engineer at Netflix and self-described “life long learner.” He is a graduate of Brigham Young University and previously worked at Reddit, Needle, and Deseret Digital Media. In addition to his work at Netflix, he serves as a curriculum advisor to the web design and online communications master’s program at the…