Open Source Delivers

You know that analyzing your code for known open source is important. But now what? What’s the best way to integrate open source code analysis into your software development lifecycle? The answer, of course, is: it depends! There are a number of choices to consider, but no one right answer. When you’re doing multi-source development, [...]

In last month’s Open Source and Innovation webinar, Editor-in-Chief of CRM Outsiders Chris Bucholtz, and I had the opportunity to speak with the Olliance Group’s Greg Olsen, about various aspects of the cloud including its future, the issue of security in the cloud, and the cloud’s role in the open source community. Naturally I was [...]

I recently spoke at the Electronics and Automotive show in Gothenburg, Sweden, the headquarters of Volvo and many other vehicle companies.  While there is strong interest in using open source in cars and trucks – the impact it’s had in other industries like mobile is partly the catalyst (as I asserted in a previous post) [...]

Last week I attended EclipseCon 2012 in its new east coast location. It was a great conference, both in terms of speakers and attendees, and over the three days, I had the pleasure of talking with some of the top dogs in the Eclipse world, both in sessions and at the bar. I also got [...]

The Mobile World Congress took over the tech world this week, with many new product demonstrations and partnership announcements. Mozilla shared the news of its partnership with Telefónica to manufacture smartphones with the open source Boot 2 Gecko web operating system and Canonical demoed its new Ubuntu TV. But those weren’t the only open source [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Thanks to the variety of great, free project hosting sites it has become very easy to publish source code and binaries on the web. This is evident in the hundreds of thousands of users adding projects / repositories on wildly popular sites like github, Google Code, SourceForge, CodePlex, and LaunchPad, to name a few.  With [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]