8 ways to contribute to open source when you have no time Find the time in your busy life to give back to the projects you care about.
To compete or to collaborate? 4 criteria for making the call Find out why different situations call for different approaches.
Why aren't more researchers using open source? Academic researchers would benefit by ditching their expensive, slow, and non-specific commercial software for open source versions.
Using Kdump for examining Linux Kernel crashes Let's examine the basics of kdump usage and look at the internals of kdump/kexec kernel implementation.
What to know before you open source your project Before your company makes a project open source, make sure you're ready for all your new responsibilities to the community that forms around it.
A beginner's guide to collecting and mapping Twitter data using R Learn to use R's twitteR and leaflet packages, which allow you to map the location of tweets on any topic.
Using open source tools to play Dungeons and Dragons How a Dungeon Master generates ideas, makes maps, and more for this face-to-face game.
How to use Ansible to manage PostgreSQL Ansible, an open source automation tool, can make complex configuration and management tasks in Postgres simple.
3 great reasons to embrace rejection Don't let your fears stop you from contributing to open source projects.
What to do when you're feeling underutilized Members of your open organization need to feel challenged and stretched. Listen to them when they ask to make bigger impacts.
Top 5: Five incorrect ways to exit Vim, Getting started with Go, and more In this week's Top 5, we're learning to talk, learning new languages, and learning to quit. Top 5 articles of the week 5. How open source is advancing the Semantic Web The…
How containers and DevOps transformed Duke University's IT department When Duke started looking into taming its VM sprawl, it became obvious that not just its infrastructure but its entire culture would need to change.