Open Source Delivers

Building better software faster by automating, managing and auditing the selection, use and governance of open source across the application lifecycle isn’t just a lofty goal, it’s a prerequisite for today’s shortened development cycles with high expectations of innovative, game-changing applications.  In fact, today’s most efficient software development teams are only writing about 20-30% of [...]

Picture this: You’re the developer who has improved the efficiency of your application development team at a large bank.  Your boss loves you, you’re expecting a nice bonus and, with less than two weeks to a holiday break, perhaps you’re looking forward to some “figgy pudding” or whatever it is you enjoy. What could possibly [...]

When showing pictures of Prague to my kids, they thought it looked like Duloc (you know, the Shrek movie), and I thought to myself, “Self, was this the perfect show in the perfect place?”  Well, it was pretty close… An early indicator of the show’s success, at least from a commercial standpoint, was that show [...]

Steve O’Grady and team from analyst firm Redmonk put on a very different day-long event (Monktoberfest, the “Developer Conference about Social, Tech and Beer”), at a very different venue (the Portland, Maine Library), with a very different lunch and dinner (lobster, beer, duck, beer and beer), a non-typical list of topics, delivered with an unusual [...]

Linux data points are plentiful these days, especially as we celebrate its 20th anniversary year.  With this in mind, we challenged ourselves to think about what data Black Duck’s Knowledgebase (KB) of 500,000 + projects might contain that would be interesting for the casual observer and Linux stalwart alike.  It reminds me of trying to [...]

In the immortal words of Danny Zuko: “This car could be systematic, hydromatic, ultramatic. Why, it could be Greased Lightning!”  With praise like that, I have to wonder what he would say about today’s high-end Chevy that includes over 100 million lines of code that executes on over 70 microprocessor-based electronic control units (ECUs)? Should [...]