Open Source Delivers

I just got back from the Linux Foundation’s second Android Builders Summit (ABS) in Redwood City, California, where most of the approximately 250 attendees were hard-core, experienced embedded Linux developers. This was only the second year for ABS, but this two-day conference was packed with great technical sessions that explored the gamut of possibilities for [...]

In most markets it’s clear, as 2012 dawns, that there are usually two strong players. A proprietary company and open source. Windows and open source applications. The iPhone and Android. In each case open source has come up the stack, closer to the point of market control. This year we’ll find that control has been [...]

This year, Black Duck was one of the proud sponsors of the SPLASH (Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity) conference held in Portland, Oregon. SPLASH is “a new ACM SIGPLAN conference dedicated to the art and science of software development.” It originates from OOPSLA, which is one of the most influential conferences on software development. [...]

One hallmark of 21st century protest is its technological nature. Iranian protesters blogged about what they were doing and coordinated activities via SMS messaging. Egyptian protesters tweeted. Syrians got out video of crackdowns using cellphones and emails that wound up on YouTube. So when the Occupy Wall Street protests began, it was natural to look [...]

I just returned from the O’Reilly Android Open event held in San Francisco this week. If you like technology, this is an exciting event, and if you’re a technology junkie, there aren’t better “fixes” than this. As I walked into the event I did so knowing that mobile is an innovation-rich environment with limitless potential: [...]

More likely than not, you, just like many of us at Black Duck, are focusing your efforts around the quality of the code written by your engineers, which is great… but it is not enough! Static code analysis has long been a well-recognized best practice in software engineering organizations. For us, reduced bug rates and [...]

If you’re a software developer, it’s a safe bet that you’re either working on an application for a mobile device or you’ve thought about doing that. Mobile apps are big business – Gartner predicted that there would be almost 18 billion downloads of mobile apps this year alone generating some $15 billion in sales. You’ve [...]

The stereotypical image of an open source project is a bunch of hackers working in dark rooms, scratching their itches and releasing software “when it is ready.” Of course, this is far from reality for many of the mainstream, mature open source communities like Linux, Mozilla, Eclipse and others. These open source communities have very [...]