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DPT Board: a Linux Development board for makers and education – Video

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DPT Board: a Linux Development board for makers and education
In this video we present the DPT Board. An OpenWRT Linux development board with built in WiFi, USB, dual Ethernet and many IO possibilities. On top of that we have developed open source software...

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Homeland Security gets into software security

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Summary: It sounds unlikely, but the Homeland Security Agency is now providing an online, open-source code-testing suite with the unlikely name of SWAMP.

PORTLAND No, I am not making this up. At OSCon, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), best known to you as the people checking up on you between the airport parking lot and your flight, quietly announced that they're now offering a service for checking out your open-source code for security holes and bugs: the Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP).

"Why," you ask?

Because Patrick Beyer, SWAMP's Project Manager at Morgridge Institute for Research, the project's prime contractor, explained, "With open source's popularity, more and more government branches are using open-source code. Some are grabbing code from here, there, and everywhere." Understandably, "there's more and more concern about the safety and quality of this code. We're the one place you can go to check into the code"

This is true, but the government has been using open-source software since before the phrase "open source," or even the earlier phrase, "free software" existed. Some of NASA's COSMIC free scientific code collection, for example, dates back to the 1960s and the Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), the first electronic health record (EHR) system, began in the early 1980s.

During my own time at NASA in the 1980s, Linux was introduced. Soon thereafter, the first Linux supercomputer architecture, Beowulf, was created at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in 1995. More recently, in 2010, the popular open-source cloud program OpenStack, got its start as a joint project between RackSpace and NASA.

So it is that government agencies have long both used and created "open-source" software. What's been missing, and what the SWAMP tries to provide, is a centralized way of checking the code for errors and security problems.

While SWAMP is funded by a $23.4 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), SWAMP is designed by researchers from the Morgridge Institute, the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana, the University of Indiana, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Each brings broad experience in software assurance, security, open source software development, national distributed facilities and identity management to the project.

The SWAMP servers themselves are hosted at the Morgridge Institute in Madison, WI. At the Institute, the clustered servers are kept at a secure facility. The SWAMP cluster currently has 700 cores, 5TBs of RAM, and 100TBs of storage to meet the continuous assurance needs of multiple software and tool development projects. SWAMP opened its services to the community in February of 2014 offering five open-source static analysis tools that analyze source code for possible security defects without having to execute the program.

These tools currently are:

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eCommerce Tips, Trends, and Technologies: Summer Webinar Series

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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) July 16, 2014

Broadleaf Commerce, the open source software provider for building customized solutions, is excited to announce the schedule for the Summer Webinar Series. The webinar series will focus on eCommerce tips, trends and technologies. The series will be hosted largely by Broadleaf Commerce and will integrate other industry leaders, including Credera.

eCommerce veterans from Credera and Broadleaf Commerce will join on July 22nd at 10am CST for the first of the three webinars. Key Considerations and Tips for an eCommerce Replatform will examine enterprise options, common missteps and best practices in setting goals and objectives for an eCommerce replatforming project.

Digital Experience Management with Broadleaf Commerce will launch at 10am CST on August 5 with a focus on how users can deploy a low-cost, holistic platform to deliver true customer personalization across disparate technologies and business goals.

The final summer webinar will review Broadleafs powerful capabilities in creating an Enterprise-level custom solution for businesses running multiple sites, multiple tenants, and in deploying marketplaces to fit any businesses plan for growth. The final webinar, entitled Multi- Site, Multi-Tenancy and Marketplaces with Broadleaf Commerce, will begin at 10am CST on August 26.

Broadleaf Commerce VP of Marketing and Partners, Brad Buhl, remarked, There are a myriad of technology solutions available on the market today. We're excited to demystify the eCommerce industry, creating a clearer path for business owners to attain revenue goals while also lowering costs.

Registration for the summer webinar series may be found at: https://broadleafcommerce.webex.com/mw0307l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=broadleafcommerce.

About Broadleaf Commerce, LLC Broadleaf Commerce is the owner of an open-source eCommerce framework targeted at facilitating the development of enterprise-class, commerce-driven sites by providing a robust data and services model, a rich administration platform, and specialized tooling that takes care of core commerce functionality providing the framework for companies such as The Container Store, Pep Boys, Waste Management, and Vology. For more information, visit: http://www.broadleafcommerce.com.

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Open Source Software – What is Free Open Source Software?

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Definition: The source code for a software application is basically the programming instructions for the software. Most financial software has a source code that is not openly shared for the purpose of competing for market share. When software is considered to be open source, the source code is available to anyone who wants to use or work with the software, free of charge.

Open source software is can be modified by anyone who downloads the source, and is usually developed with a collaboration of programmers and software users. This collaboration includes testing the software to eliminate bugs in the program code, a process with can cause the software to quickly become more refined and user-friendly.

Open source software is free to the general public and is considered safe to use when the usual precautions are taken (use antivirus software). The only drawback to open source software may be a lack of formal technical support, although most of this software has an online manual to use to learn to use the software and a strong user community which freely provides reliable support to those who have questions. Help documentation is most often found in the software under the Help section at the top of the screen or on the software developer's web site.

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Open Source Hangout 001: Ideal Package Management for Browsers! – Video

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Open Source Hangout 001: Ideal Package Management for Browsers!
This is the first installment of a new podcast about developing and working with open source software! This week #39;s topic is "Ideal Package Management for Browsers"! This will be an audio...

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