Data security is rarely the first consideration when choosing a public cloud service provider. That’s changing, though, because of the rise of tougher rules, regulations, and standards aimed at protecting consumer privacy. Without data security, there can be no privacy. Laws such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy… Continue reading Cloud security and data protection: What enterprises need to know
Cloud represents a third of the IT spend, as the majority of organizations use cloud services for over half of their invrastructure and applications. This is what the survey of over 500 IT professionals reveals, read more results from this survey here. By Eric Knorr Not long ago, if you were a business stakeholder or IT… Continue reading The Cloud Computing Survey of IDG
Former Microsoft bastion Hamburg’s decision is particularly telling, say observers. By: Cathrin Schaer | ZDnet. The trend towards open-source software on government computers is gathering pace in Germany. In the latest development, during coalition negotiations in the city-state of Hamburg, politicians have declared they are ready to start moving its civil service software away from… Continue reading Microsoft dropped for open source: Why Hamburg is now following Munich’s lead
Toegang tot de gpio’s van de Pi in Ubuntu Raspbian is dan wel het officiële besturingssysteem van de Raspberry Pi, je kunt er ook andere Linux-distributies op installeren. Helaas loop je dan tegen verschillen aan waardoor de uitleg die je voor Raspbian vindt niet altijd werkt, zelfs op de verwante distributies Debian of Ubuntu. Zo… Continue reading De experttips over Ubuntu en Termshark
Programming a chip is hard, but RTOS solves many of the major issues on embedded systems. By: Zhu Tianlong | Opensource.com. In general computing, an operating system is software that provides a computer’s basic functions. It ensures that a computer detects and responds to peripherals (like keyboards, screens, mobile devices, printers, and so on), and… Continue reading Code your hardware using this open source RTOS
While explaining the timeline of JavaScript, Shawn Wang comes to an interesting point: that we just started a period that could later be referred to as the Third Age of JavaScript. By Shawn Wang (AKA swyx) The Story So Far The first age of JS, from 1997-2007, started with a bang and ended with a… Continue reading Is this the Third Age of JavaScript?
GitHub has issued a warning to Java developers about malware which is specifically infecting NetBeans projects. By: Ryan Daws | Developer Tech. The security team for the world’s largest repository host has dubbed the malware Octopus Scanner and found “26 open source projects that were backdoored by this malware and that were actively serving backdoored… Continue reading GitHub warns Java developers about malware infecting NetBeans projects
It takes time and patience to transition from one orthodoxy to another. Which is why many organizations are suffering from ‘agile fatique’, because of how it’s being applied, not because the pholosophy is without merit. DevOps is at a critical crossroads, and to not lead to the road where this fatique may occur, it is… Continue reading DevOps is at a crossroads
Het ParnasSys-team stond op het punt om hun huidige database engine compleet te vervangen. Van Oracle naar PostgreSQL. De eindgebruiker merkt er helemaal niks van. Maar voor ons software engineers is het alsof je een benzinemotor vervangt voor een dieselvariant. Handmatig, met de gratis open source tool ora2pg, had dit veel tijd gekost. En je… Continue reading Topicus codekraker Martijn Dashorst – Kijk verder dan je open source neus lang is, soms zijn betaalde tools écht beter
Atlassian wants to improve the way development, IT operations and business teams work together by allowing them to share and get the right information in the tools they are already working in. By: Christina Cardoza | SDTimes. In a recent DevOps Trends Survey, the company found that DevOpstools and practices teams use to make their lives… Continue reading Atlassian delivers 12 new ways to bring information to DevOps teams
