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Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the production and design process for various goods, products, resources and technical conclusions or advice. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create user-generated software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration.

Popular open source projects include the Apache web server, MySQL database, and Firefox web browser, as well as many others.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about, and advocate for, the benefits of open source. OSI works to build bridges among different constituencies in the open-source community.

One of the OSI's most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open-source cooperation.

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    Software developers, web designers, and other IT professionals who are trying to build up a consulting business are often asked to provide the prospective client with a formal proposal explaining how theyll serve the companys needs. If youre new at this, you may be amenable but also unsure what to actually say. Let me ...
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    Linux has been around for really long time now, but the way Linux advanced in the last few years has been remarkable. Over the last decade, Linux has reached a stage that it can successfully challenge Windows in terms of  ease of use and features. But there are a number of other technologies which have emerged ...
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    The VAR Guy is dragging a bit as the decade comes to a close. Our resident blogger needs to drop a few pounds and get energized for 2010. But before he starts a crash diet, here are six channel blog entries The VAR Guy didn’t write for the week ending Dec. 31, 2009. 7. Hello (Again): Autodesk , the 2D and 3D ...
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  • Java #N1 – Getting Started with Netbeans


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    This tutorial shows how to create a simple Java program using Netbeans.
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  • Building Tests for Large, Untested Codebases


    Software Development Videos — Authority Authority: 141
    Covering large codebases with automated tests is a challenging and frustrating task that can be made much easier by approaching the problem systematically and choosing good tools. I will discuss a number of approaches and freely available tools that can help people “tame” pre-existing codebases with automated ...
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  • Building Killer RIAs with Flex and Grails


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    Adobe Flex is a Rich Internet Application framework that allows developers to build robust and powerful applications for the web and the desktop. In this talk, Tomas Lin discusses the major technologies and tools available within the Grails / Flex ecosystem and dive into building a simple and fun application using the ...
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  • Effective GWT: Developing a complex, high-performance app with Google Web Toolkit


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    In this session we’ll show how you can get the most out of GWT in development, testing and deployment. It’s based on our two and half years of experience building Lombardi Blueprint, a SaaS application for collaborative business process documentation. We’ll cover how you can effectively integrate GWT into your ...
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  • Will Linux Survive the Global Economic Meltdown?


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 166
    Lower the Lifeboats and hoist the Mains’l, this is going to be a rough ride. While companies worldwide look for ways to reduce costs, shed dead weight from their labor resources and streamline their businesses, it makes me wonder if Linux will survive the global economic meltdown. Oh, I know it will survive in ...
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  • libev 3.9


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 166
    Libev is a high-performance event loop for C (with optional and separate interfaces for C++ and Perl), featuring support for I/O, timers (relative and absolute, cron-like ones), signals, process status changes, and other types of events. It has both a fast native API and libevent emulation to support programs written ...
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  • web2py 1.74.5


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 166
    web2py is a Python full-stack enterprise Web framework for the agile development of fast, secure, and portable database-driven Web-based applications. It is compatible with the Google App Engine. Changes: Bugs were fixed. auth.user_id was added as a shortcut for auth.user.id that defaults to None if not logged in. ...
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  • Happy New 2.0.10 by EMCelettronica


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  • Eraser Portable 5.8.8 Released


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    Eraser Portable 5.8.8 has been released. Eraser Portable is a secure data removal tool that can completely remove files from most media. This new release updates Eraser to the latest version and adds some custom visual enhancements. Its packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the ...
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  • Cone 0.80


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 166
    Cone (COnsole Newsreader And Emailer) is a text-based email client. It seamlessly handles multiple POP3 and IMAP accounts and local mail folders. It is also a simple newsreader. It is designed to be foolproof enough to be used by inexperienced users, but also offers advanced features for power users. Changes: This ...
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  • Agender 1.1.0


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 166
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  • Long Range ZIP 0.44


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 166
    LRZIP is a compression program that can achieve very high compression ratios and speed when used with large files. It uses the combined compression algorithms of zpaq and lzma for maximum compression, lzo for maximum speed, and the long range redundancy reduction of rzip. It is designed to scale with increases with ...
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  • ntop 3.4rc1


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 166
    ntop is a network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes. It acts as a Web server, creating an HTML dump of the network status. It sports a NetFlow/sFlow emitter/collector, an HTTP-based client interface for creating ntop-centric monitoring applications, and RRD for persistently ...
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  • Secluded Notes 0.1.1


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    Secluded Notes is a simple text editor that keeps each document as a part of its own executable. That part is called an "attachment", and the program encrypts/decrypts it on the fly with an AES 128-bit cipher. As long as you close the application, it automatically updates itself for the next run. Changes: A bug ...
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  • bpython 0.9.6.1


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 166
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  • GroundWork Monitor Community Edition 6.0.1


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 166
    GroundWork Monitor Community Edition can give you insight into your computing infrastructure, allowing you to see the current and historical states of all your computers: servers, desktops, and laptops, all of your network devices, all of your services (like TCP/IP and Web services), and all of your applications (like ...
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  • GroundWork Monitor Community Edition 6.0.1


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 166
    GroundWork Monitor Community Edition can give you insight into your computing infrastructure, allowing you to see the current and historical states of all your computers: servers, desktops, and laptops, all of your network devices, all of your services (like TCP/IP and Web services), and all of your applications (like ...
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