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Facebook's Flow could help JavaScript programmers spot bugs

Flow offers much-needed static type checking for the JavaScrtipt language

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Amazon's Aurora release promises a mightier MySQL

Amazon Web Services says it's supercharged the open source MySQL with the high performance, reliability, and scalability.

Which version of PHP is required for Drupal 7?

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10 Best Practices for Cloud Business Intelligence: Enabling the Business

Business driven Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics represent a shift in the enterprise that is perfectly aligned with the value proposition of cloud-based analytic solutions.

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Microsoft open sources .Net server stack

In an effort to broaden its reach beyond Windows developers, Microsoft has released as open source the server-side components of its .Net framework and embarked on a project to port the runtime software to Linux and Mac OS.

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Docker gets competition with new Joyent, Canonical containers

Spurred on by the success of Docker, platform services provider Joyent and Linux distributor Canonical have each open-sourced their container technologies.

OpenStack users identify upgrades as ‘pain point'

OpenStack Foundation vows to tackle tricky software upgrades

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org - what's the difference?

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Facebook releases C++ libraries to ease Internet communications

Facebook has released a collection of open-source code libraries that should ease the process of getting C++ programs to communicate over the Internet.

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10 Best Practices for Integrating Data

Data integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented, taking time and resources. Yet it continues to grow in strategic importance as customer data and touch points grow with the emergence of cloud, social and mobile

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CoreOS: A lean, mean virtualization machine

No-frills Linux distro offers rapid deployment of VM instances.

OpenStack users: We need more experienced staff

A major obstacle to wider adoption of OpenStack software is the lack of qualified staff, according to speakers and attendees at the OpenStack Summit in Paris.

How is data stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)?

Facebook gives away homebrewed OS monitoring tool

Facebook released an open-source tool for monitoring operating system state changes across very large infrastructures, which could help engineers quickly diagnose performance and security issues.

TechEd: Developing for the Internet of Things is 'cheap as chips'

It's easier than ever to get started developing for the Internet of Things (IoT), said Microsoft .NET developer evangelist, Dave Glover.

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10 Common Problems APM Helps You Solve

Practical advice for you to take full advantage of the benefits of APM and keep your IT environment performing at its peak at all times.

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How-to: Get started with MariaDB

An easy, step-by-step guide to setting up a MariaDB database server and phpMyAdmin on Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu.

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OpenStack 10 'Juno' marries cloud, Hadoop and more...

Juno gives birth to better provisioning, policies, rescue, NFV: OpenStack, the open-source cloud OS, is at v10. Chock-full of new features and the ob. bug fixes, it's attracting attention not only from public cloud providers, but also...

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Microsoft to bring Docker to Windows Server

It's another giant step for the Docker virtualization technology.

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7 free tools every network needs

From device discovery to visibility into systems, networks, and traffic flows, these free open source monitoring tools have you covered.

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10 Considerations in Moving to a Cloud-Based Contact Center

This ebook offers ten key considerations when moving to a cloud-based contact center. What are your organization's business goals and requirements?

Ericsson releases WebRTC browser, framework as open source

The browser has been resurrected at least in part to make up for Apple's apparent disinterest in the technology

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OpenVPN servers can be vulnerable to Shellshock Bash vulnerability

Some OpenVPN configuration options open remote attack vectors for Bash vulnerabilities, VPN provider warns.

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Software stack from Eclipse could unleash Java developer army on IoT

There's no single standard to link all devices in the "Internet of Things" and there may never be one, but the Eclipse Foundation wants to at least make it easier for developers to code for the standards that are out there.

Bossie Awards 2014: The best open-source desktop and mobile software

InfoWorld's top picks in open-source productivity tools, desktop utilities, and mobile apps

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