Open Source Delivers

Sifting through the thousands of new open source projects that start each year is a refreshing, insightful process. As we completed our Rookies analysis of the new projects that hit the scene in 2012, I had a wonderful sense of the kind of impact that open source is making on the world in so many [...]

Yesterday I spoke with Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst serving application development & delivery professionals at Forrester, for our “Open Source Conversations” series.  Please check out the video, below, for Jeff’s take on the following: Cultural changes in development, and in particular, why developers write code outside their day jobs.  Jeff reports that 70-80 percent of [...]

The adoption of open source in enterprise computing is as inevitable as the overall trend toward the commoditization of commercial computing hardware and software, which is clearly evident in the large data centers supporting the big Web companies. Enterprise IT environments pre-dating the Web are working hard to catch up, and increasing the adoption of [...]

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 [...]