[ad_1] About the author Jason Baker – Jason is passionate about using technology to make the world more open, from software development to bringing sunlight to local governments. He is particularly interested in data visualization/analysis, DIY/maker culture, simulations/modeling, geospatial technologies, and cloud computing, especially OpenStack. Follow him on Twitter or Google+. Learn what’s happening this…

[ad_1] About the author Deb Nicholson – Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she started handling outreach for the Free Software Foundation and became an enthusiastic free software activist. She likes talking to developers about software patents,…

[ad_1] In 2016, I adopted my first carnivorous plants, a Venus Fly Trap and a Pitcher Plant, which my Facebook friends named Gordon and Bananarama, respectively. I quickly discovered that the health of Gordon and Bananarama was closely connected to the environment I provided as much as to their ability to catch the occasional bug…

[ad_1] In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the US government making its open source code public, a new container security project, Mozilla’s latest browser project, and more. Open source news roundup for October 30-November 12, 2016 Code.gov shares US government open source code Earlier this year, the…

[ad_1] In this week’s Top 5, we highlight Vim’s 25th year, dashboard tools for visualizing data, thoughts on free software philosophy and ideals, an update on Raspberry Pi Foundation’s mission and projects, and security challenges for microservices. Top 5 articles of the week 5. Secured DevOps for microservices Containers and microservices have revolutionized application development…

[ad_1] In 15 minutes, you can develop a virtual reality application and run it in a web browser, on a VR headset, or with Google Daydream. The key is A-Frame, an open source toolkit built by the Mozilla VR Team. Test it Open this link using Chrome or Firefox on your mobile phone. Put your…

[ad_1] I have mentioned before that my music player connected to my home stereo is MPD (Music Player Daemon). Briefly, this is because I run it on a small, dedicated computer called a CuBox-i4Pro. My main reason for choosing this particular model was that it gave me the option to use an eSATA connection to…

[ad_1] “It is not who you are nor what you are, but what you do.” That’s the type of culture codeRIT and BrickHack are about. Race, gender, and how much you know about coding software doesn’t matter; what matters is that you want to learn, and you want to better yourself and the world. CodeRIT is a…

[ad_1] To start with a confession, I like dashboards. A lot. I’ve always been fascinated by finding new and interesting ways to bring meaning to data with interactive visualization tools. While I’m definitely a geek for numbers, the human mind is simply much better at interpreting trends visually than it is just picking them out…

[ad_1] When I first started doing cross-platform development I used a KVM switch to share my mouse, keyboard, and monitor between several physical systems. I also used VNC and remote desktop software to see what things looked like on other operating systems. Then I obtained a second monitor, which gave me multiple options for different…