One of the top-rated apps in the Google Play Store right now when you search for glucose tracker is Glucosio. The app is designed to track blood glucose test results, and…
By 2009, developer Nick Sagona had, over time, built quite a few custom, hand-rolled content management solutions for his specific client needs. He realized that having a…
LilyPond is a free, mature music-typesetting program, similar in flavor to LaTeX. The software is part of the GNU Project and is released under the GNU General Public License…
I met Alison Chaiken at LinuxCon 2010 in Boston, not long after she joined Nokia as a Meego technical consultant. A few months later, I interviewed her about her role at Nokia…
Are you a mentor? Or, maybe you're someone who identifies as a bridge builder, just looking for the right opportunity to help someone out—because working in tech can, well, be…
If you attend LISA15 in Washington D.C. this month, you'll want to catch James Mickens' closing keynote, It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea. James Mickens has…
Engineers know that there’s much more to a successful software project than meets the eye. Refactoring and testing are as important as functionality when it comes to managing…
Azat Mardan, a technology fellow at Capital One and author of more than a dozen books, has a few pieces of advice for tech professionals still looking for the right job. In…
During his time recruiting young programmers on college campuses, one of the questions Chris Aniszczyk would hear a lot is, "How do I get involved in open source?" At Great…
Providing web services for the government of one of the most populous U.S. states (Georgia) is no small task, but it's made a bit easier thanks to Drupal, open source software…
Looking for ways to draw meaningful conclusions from big data? In his lightning talk at Great Wide Open 2016, Rommel Garcia gives us quick takeaways for three open source…
You'd be hard pressed to find someone who wouldn't agree that design for open source projects in a broad sense (websites, materials, logos, and so on) couldn't use a bit of…