kans om te kunnen spreken op de Open Source Summit Dublin in Oktober

Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe is the leading open source conference in Europe connecting thousands of open source developers, technologists and industry leaders for three full days of education, networking and collaboration.  While the event is currently scheduled to take place October 26-28, we are monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely and there is a… Lees meer

Why I switched from Java to Kotlin

Kotlin is a cross-platform, general-purpose programming language and an easy move for anyone familiar with Java. Stephon Brown After years as an educator, I became a professional software developer. That brought me to Java, but recently, I began enjoying a totally different but compatible programming language called Kotlin. Kotlin is a cross-platform, general-purpose programming language that runs on… Lees meer

GNOME gets big open-source patent win

GNOME, the popular Linux desktop, didn’t just avoid paying a patent troll, it won the right for any product under an Open Source Initiative license to use code covered by the company’s patents. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols In 2019, the GNOME Foundation was sued by Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPI) for violating its “wireless image distribution system and method patent” (US Patent… Lees meer

Troubleshooting via logfiles – waar begin je te zoeken?

Je kan pas problemen oplossen op je systeem als je over voldoende informatie beschikt. Voor troubleshooting zijn logfiles dan ook cruciaal. Helaas staan die wel eens verspreid over verschillende locaties. Waar begin je dan best te zoeken? Filip Vervloesem In principe staan alle logfiles op één locatie, namelijk in de directory/var/log. Let wel op: we… Lees meer

20 productivity tools for the Linux terminal

Try some of these open source tools. Get more done. Alan Smithee Many of us, admittedly, only use computers because they’re fun. But some people use computers to get stuff done, and their theory is computers are supposed to make things faster, better, and more organized. In practice, though, computers don’t necessarily improve our lives without… Lees meer

Veracode: Open-source libraries cause security flaws in 70% of apps

Research from Veracode suggests that 70 percent of apps have security flaws due to their use of open-source libraries. Ryan Daws The application security firm set out to determine the risk one flawed library can pose to software. For its The State of Software Security (SOSS): Open Source Edition report, Veracode analysed 351,000 libraries across the Veracode… Lees meer

2020 will be the year of Linux on the Windows desktop

Linux on Windows just took a big graphical desktop step forward with Microsoft’s plans for Windows subsystem for Linux. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Linux on the desktop has had more than its fair share of troubles. Sure, the Linux desktop has long been a favorite of top-flight developers, system administrators, and loyal fans. But, when it… Lees meer

Create interactive content in WordPress with the H5P plugin

Turn your WordPress site into an interactive learning management system with this open source plugin. Don Watkins WordPress is best known as a website content management system, but it also a great learning management system (LMS) for delivering online courses. If that is what you are looking for out of WordPress, then H5P should be the top plugin on… Lees meer

De geek-weetjes van begin 2020!

Machine om luiers te verversen Sta je als kersverse pap voor de taak om de luiers van je baby te verversen en denk je als rechtgeaarde nerd ”Zou dat niet te automatiseren zijn?”. Jawel hoor, de Iraanse ingenieur Iman Farahbaksh vond een automatische ‘babywasmachine’ uit en kreeg in 2018 zelfs een octrooi erop toegekend.  … Lees meer

Use the internet from the command line with curl

Download our new curl cheat sheet. Curl is a fast and efficient way to pull the information you need from the internet without using a graphical interface. Seth Kenlon Curl is commonly considered a non-interactive web browser. That means it’s able to pull information from the internet and display it in your terminal or save… Lees meer