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Google taps student developers for OSS
News The search giant kicks off fifth year of its Summer of Code project, hoping to build on its successes in Singapore last year with more contributions this year.
Tags: Open source, Fedora Project, KDE, Google Inc., GNOME, Singapore, Developer, Environment, Linux desktop, Linux
IBM and Microsoft back Zend's cloud API plan
News The two firms have signed up to a Zend initiative to create an open source application-programming interface for the cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, API, co-founder, Rackspace, development tool
Coverity reveals common open-source code flaws
News A US Department of Homeland Security-funded project has listed some of the most frequent open source coding errors.
Tags: Open source, Security, Coverity, Flaw, Python, buffer-overflow vulnerability, Perl, accounting, Java, Samba
Code concepts: Visual Studio's T4 templates
Techguide The T4 templating system is used to programmatically generate artifacts. Here's an overview about why the templates are useful and how to work with them.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Business applications, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, T4, Directives, Levit & James Inc., Business applications, File, Directive, Tool
Microsoft rolls out SQL Azure Database preview
News Database component of Microsoft's cloud platform is now available as a free trial until the service goes fully live in November.
Tags: Business applications, Microsoft Windows, Cloud computing, Microsoft SQL Server, RDBMS, Database, SQL, Web Application, Community Technology Preview, Cloud computing
Never use dynamic variable names
Techguide How to dynamically name variables is a common subject of programming questions. That's a great way to create security problems, though.
Tags: Security Management, Protocols and platforms, Array, Ruby, Expression, Variable, Security, Microsoft Corp., CompTIA, SQL
Red Hat warns of cloud 'lock-in'
News Vendors such as Microsoft are attempting to take customers 'back to the '80s' by locking them into proprietary cloud services, according to open source vendor Red Hat.
Tags: Cloud computing, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Sister Site, SDK, VMware Inc., Cloud computing, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux, PHP
Quickly install a LAMP server on Ubuntu
Techguide Here are some quick and easy steps to installing a LAMP server on a running Ubuntu machine.
Tags: Servers, Open source, Linux, Apache Software Foundation, Web Browser, Red Hat Inc., Ubuntu, Password, Red Hat Linux 6.0, Server
Code concepts: C#'s var keyword
Techguide Justin James explains in this overview, that var is used in variable declarations instead of a type, and also weighs differing opinions about what makes var useful.
Tags: Programming languages, Software engineering/development, Ruby, C#, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, Programming, blogging, Microsoft Visual Studio, PHP
Adobe offers Flash Catalyst for testing
News Programmers can now get their hands on a beta for the new design and development tool, as well as Flash Builder, the IDE successor to Flex Builder.
Tags: Software, Development/design, Business applications, E-business, Adobe Systems Inc., Tool, Adobe PhotoShop, Cisco Catalyst, development environment, Software
Secure and stable server setup with CentOS
Techguide CentOS is an operating system that is completely compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here's how to optimize CentOS setup with RPMForge and Utter Ramblings repositories.
Tags: Open source, Operating systems, Repository, Apache Software Foundation, Red Hat Inc., Plug-in, CentOS, Grep, Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Is the new Komodo 5 worth the upgrade?
Techguide The Komodo 5.0 toolset for developers is taken for a test drive to find out if its new features are compelling enough to make the software a must-have.
Tags: Linux, Security, Tool, ActiveState Tool Corp., TCL, CVS Corp., Mozilla Corp., Vincent Danen, Komodo 5, Komodo Edit
MVC framework: A developer's first impressions
Techguide Find out why you may want to use Microsoft’s Model View Controller framework instead of Web Forms.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Web 2.0, Web sites, Microsoft Corp., Web Forms, Developer, Fellow Developer, ASP.NET Development, MVC, business logic
The Bobby Tables guide to SQL injection
Techguide Avoiding SQL injection vulnerabilities is much easier than you might think. XKCD inspired a simple tutorial.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Data security, Allaire ColdFusion, SQL statement, Vulnerability, CompTIA, SQL, content management system
Tips and tricks for the command line
Techguide Vincent Danen lists some favorite tips and shortcuts for working from the Command Line Interface.
Tags: Operating systems, Open source, Command, GUI, IRC, CLI, e-mail, shell script, Web Site, PHP
