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We will send mail once in a week about latest updates on open source tools and technologies. subscribe our newsletterOpen source is leading innovation in all technological areas. Open source awareness has spread around the world. Schools and Colleges students speak about it. Government organization think about it. Corporates relay on open source technological stack to build their enterprise or cloud products.
I could see many many students posting this question in many forums, I want to contribute to open source but How to contribute? There are many ways to do that. I have listed a few and I hope it might be useful.
Open source projects are free to use but the developers should be economically happy so that they could give time and energy to the project. There are lot of projects which are good but not able to sustain in the long run. In this article we will discuss about how to get sponsors for open source projects.
Open Source is the way to innovate and users using it should have complete freedom. Google has came forward to declare couple of its patents on Map Reduce under Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge (OPN Pledge). There are multiple variants of open source license and using that means the product is completely free. Why OPN Pledge is required?
People who have taken programming as their career has to do coding for almost 30 years. Will they always get an opportunity to do complex tasks or to write project from scratch? The answer is NO. Sometimes they may get but not always. What should they do?
Many startups are entering in to the business due to open source. Open source acts as a back bone / pillar for their business. It reduces the cost of production, Generates revenue from consulting and support. This article describes about the startups which flourished because of open source. Sun acquired MySQL for $1Bn is the biggest achievement for open source startups.
As open source getting popular day by day, many have questions like How to make money from Open Source? Lot more products are getting introduced and don't know who is making money. Certainly open source means, give the product and source for free then how to make money? Yes sell the product for free but get paid for its services.
Many new products are coming in the open source world. Few are forking existing project, adding new features to it and selling it as open source product. Few strategies required to follow to sell the product better.
Open Source projects requires sponsors to fund their project. Few got good funding but few others are struggling to continue their project. A contributor, who does full time work in open source project requires funding to take care his needs. He has to be paid and he cannot do it for free. For those who don't get fund, check out this crowdfunding sites, these are exclusively for open source projects. Join these, get some fund and continue your dream.
Failure is often the catalyst for success. You need to make mistakes to truly learn and grow as a tech worker. Sometimes, you don’t need to make the mistakes to learn. Learning from other’s mistakes can be just as informative and productive. Paying attention to what others have done can help you avoid the same kind of failure. Here are a few common mistakes that authors make that lead to the failure of open-source software projects.
Microsoft announced that it is acquiring GitHub for 7.5 Billion dollars. GitHub is a most used Software developer and Code hosting platform. It hosts more than 80 million code repository and more than 20 million developers collaborate in GitHub. In addition to managing code repositories, GitHub has developed many tools to increase the productivity of developers. Almost 70% of open source projects hosted in GitHub. Microsoft is a big corporate leader and it buying a open source code hosting company, Is it good or bad?
This is the most frequently asked questions in the interview. Googling will throw many links related to this topic. How to learn the implementation of hash map? My style of learning using open source learning technique.
F# is a functional programming language for the .NET Framework. It combines the succinct, expressive and compositional style of functional programming with the runtime, libraries, interoperability, and object model of .NET. Microsoft recently released its source code under Apache License.
fd is a fast, simple, and user-friendly tool that simply performs faster than find. It isn't meant to be a replacement for find, but rather a slightly faster alternative that is easier to use. Let us explore fd command completely in this article.
Most of the database has support of full text search, basically indexing and saarching. MySQL, Oracle and many more databases has in-built full text search. Then what is the need to go for external search engine like Lucene, Sphinx, Solr etc. Check out the advantage of using Searchengine.
Exonum is an extensible open source blockchain framework for building private blockchains which offers outstanding performance, data security, as well as fault tolerance. The framework does not include any business logic, instead, you can develop and add the services that meet your specific needs. Exonum can be used to build various solutions from a document registry to a DevOps facilitation system.
Text editors are mainly used by programmers and developers for manipulating plain text source code, editing configuration files or preparing documentation and even viewing error logs. Text editors is a piece of software which enables to create, modify and delete files that a programmer is using while creating website or mobile app.In this article, we will discuss about top 7 all-round performing text editors which is highly supportive for programmers.
There are couple of sites which indexes the open source code and provides support to search code. Recently Google announced that they removed code search support from Google code. This article provides pointer for code search engine sites.
I have a open source project but where should i host? This is the frequently asked question among developers. Below details will certainly help to choose the best code hosting site.
GPL is widely used and known license in Open Source community. Richard Stallman father of GNU is the man behind GPL. GPL gives freedom and not free software.
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