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Stoked — Manifesting Innovation in Shared Threat Intelligence

Palo Alto Networks

Rodney Mullen About half way through his lecture he drew similarities between skaters, hackers and the open-source community. And yet, like skateboarding, open-source software (OSS) also carries substantial risks and vulnerabilities. But first, what exactly is open-source software? It’s a beautiful thing.

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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. His tech hobbies, including open source software, were inspired by his father’s job as a professional programmer, but Mullenweg didn’t yet seem certain about following his father’s profession.

Media 261
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Directus wants to democratize data across the enterprise

TechCrunch

That may sound awfully familiar, but Directus , which is announcing a $7 million Series A round led by True Ventures today, is taking a different approach to most of its competitors by combining traditional developer tools with a no-code approach to offer a highly flexible open-source data platform for its enterprise users.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

He’s going to be talking about code quality in open source projects and identifying problems in the code. Hiding in Plain Sight: Real Problems Lurking in Open Source Projects [DEV6066]*. Moscone West – Room 2004. Moscone West – Room 2004. in Moscone West, Room 2016. Don’t miss it! Take a look! **PS.

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

Let’s look at a broader range of (somewhat randomly selected) open source projects: It looks like Git is somewhat of an outlier here. The aggregate model doesn’t necessarily have super strong predictive power – it’s hard to point to a arbitrary open source project and expect half of it to be gone 3.33 years later.

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Top 10 Highest Paid Programming Languages in 2019

The Crazy Programmer

Scala, which is a high-level programming language, is developed for both the functional and object-oriented, it is designed in the year 2004 by Martin Odersky. Ruby is an object-oriented, reflective, dynamic, general purpose and open source programming scripting language which is developed by te Yukihiro Matsumoto.

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History of MySQL Database

The Crazy Programmer

MySQL is a widely used relational open-source database management solution across the world. After one month, source and Linux binary got released. MySQL then went open source and can easily be accessed & used by everyone. . It became a popular open-source language among the developers.