Linux

Your Boss May Pay for Your Open-Source Certifications

Nick Kolakowski, 

August 24, 2017

Nearly half of companies (47 percent) are willing to pay for employees’ open-source certifications, according to a new study by Dice and The Linux Foundation. That’s …

Toyota Leans On Linux for Future In-Car Tech

Nate Swanner, 

June 1, 2017

Car manufacturers prefer proprietary experiences to platforms when it comes to in-car ‘infotainment’ technology. The influx of self-driving technology was supposed to change that, but Toyota …

JavaScript Still King; Everyone Hates Visual Basic

Nate Swanner, 

March 23, 2017

Developers tend to have their favorite languages and tools, but some things will also scare them off. Stack Overflow’s annual survey is a good barometer of developer …

Why Develop on Linux?

David Bolton, 

February 24, 2017

Everyone has a favorite development platform. With Windows becoming less popular, is Linux getting the breakthrough it needs? The answer, on the surface, is “Yes.” If …

Perfect Assistant Makes Server-Side Swift Easy

Nate Swanner, 

December 7, 2016

Apple’s Swift programming language already has a variety of use cases, and a growing number of developers are discovering it’s available for server-side instances, as well. …

The Pros (and Cons) of Short Release Cycles

Nick Kolakowski, 

September 2, 2016

Linux hit its quarter-century milestone last month. In its latest Linux Kernel Development report (download and registration required), the Linux Foundation made note of the anniversary, …

Linux Turns 25 Years Old

Nick Kolakowski, 

September 1, 2016

In late August, Linux turned 25 years old, a major milestone for any piece of software. But unlike most other platforms that have made the quarter-century …

How Open Source Projects Grow Huge

Nick Kolakowski, 

July 6, 2016

One of the core benefits of open-source projects is how anyone can contribute to the code or documentation. And as demonstrated by a series of visualizations …

Learning About Data Structures in Swift

David Bolton, 

May 12, 2016

Swift is an increasingly popular language for programming iOS devices, supported on Linux in addition to Mac OS X. A few months ago, Apple decided to …

How Open-Source Pros Learn Their Skills

Nick Kolakowski, 

May 11, 2016

If there’s one thing that unites those in the open-source community—besides a love of building and maintaining software—it’s their inclination to teach themselves what they need …