Tag: Open source

Why and How to Hire Golang developers for Full-time Projects

Karan S

It is no longer a secret that software development is becoming necessary for the business world. As a result, Golang has become one of the fastest-growing languages many businesses seek to utilize among many transforming programming languages.  Moreover, you can’t do this without Golang developers. If you don’t know how important it is to hire Golang developers for your full-time projects, read this article. You will understand why it is essential to hire one. Golang programmers are in high demand, and you can hire one! What is Golang?  The Go…

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Getting The Best Out of GitHub

Karan S

GitHub has been popularly referred to as the social network for all programmers. In fact, it is the biggest community for developers from every part of the universe. However, unlike other social networks, you need to know something very well before planning to learn how to use GitHub. That thing is Git; it can be described as a distributed version control system. You already know that in a building construction, the foundation of the structure must be strong for the building to be stable. In this case, Git is the…

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Ubuntu for Phones, Tablets: UI Overview, Features, Details, Apps

Tarandeep Singh

Canonical is making the next big bet on Ubuntu, by making it run everywhere: Desktop PCs, Laptops, Tablets and Smartphones. This is big deal for the company, and it hopes to gain traction especially from Enterprise market. Unity - One Interface to rule them all. Ubuntu would look and feel exactly the same on all the devices and screen sizes. All variants of Ubuntu 12 & 13 make HTML5 & Native apps all available directly from the launcher. Ubuntu makes all the Ubuntu services like cloud backup, music store, etc.…

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Linux Kernel 3.7 Features - What’s New

Tarandeep Singh

ARM has been integral part of Linux systems for years, and they have only changed for better, always. Linux Kernel 3.7 is now available out in the Open Source, and it comes with a huge list of improvements. What’s New in Linux Kernel 3.7 To summarize: Main features ARM multi-platform support ARM 64-bit support - Support for ARM v8 64-bit memory addressing Cryptographically-signed kernel modules - The kernel can optionally disable completely the load of modules that have not been signed with the correct key - even for root users Btrfs…

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Drip: Fastest JVM launcher [Java, Scala, Clojure, JRuby]

Tarandeep Singh

If you’re a Java developer of Java application user, you are not new to the fact that startup time for Java application is huge, of the order of milliseconds to seconds. Drip, an open source effort, is one step forward from other solutions that help accelerate JVM startup times. Drip, is very different when compared to other fast JVM startup solutions. What is Drip? Drip is a launcher for the Java Virtual Machine that provides much faster startup times than the java command. The drip script is intended to be a drop-in…

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HP WebOS 1.0 Open Sourced

Tarandeep Singh

When a product fails to meet expectations, what do we do with it? Pundits would tell you to Open source the software / hardware technology and let the contributors from around the globe innovate it. Well, HP has opened up, as promised. They have Open Sourced WebOS 1.0 Beta to the community under proper Open source license. According to HP, It has taken a lot of hard work, long hours and weekend sacrifices by our engineering team to deliver on our promise and we have accomplished this goal. The Beta…

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DIY Build OpenSource Spectrometer for Cheap

Tarandeep Singh

Spectrometer is really scientist’s swiss knife when it comes to identifying unknown materials. A new kickstarter project assures to make Spectrometry cheap and accessible like Wikipedia to just anyone. They have come up with a kit, which you can make it at home for cheap. What is Spectrometer? Spectrometer basically identifies materials. Ina wider term, it is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used in spectroscopic analysis to identify materials. What is this Open Spectrometer? What can it do?…

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Google Interactive Spaces: Real World Gaming, Experiences

Tarandeep Singh

Gaming is fun, but its even more exciting when it social and Physical. Why did Kinect get all that fame? When games step of of the monitor screens, it no longer limited — fun begins. What if you can play games that are built using nothing but the space around you. Your room, your hall gets transformed to Game Arena with technologies like Interactive Spaces. Interactive Spaces are physical spaces which can interact with their occupants in some way. To do this, the spaces will contain two types of objects.…

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Collaborative IDE Collide Open Sourced [Google Wave]

Tarandeep Singh

Collide, an free Collaborative IDE is Open Sourced by Google. Remember Google Wave? One may recall it being shut down by Google but truth be told, it has lived hiding underneath various Google products. For example, Google+ Hangouts at its early stage was using the Wave protocol for its YouTube gadget, and now it is being used for code collaboration. Collide is a free (and now Open Source) IDE that synchronizes your code on the physical disk. You can encourage your fellow programmers to collaboratively develop Application sin Java and various programming…

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How to Crack WPA2 WPS WiFi password

Tarandeep Singh

Wifi Protected Setup or WPS is a 802.11 certified standard for delivering security over your Wireless network. Wi-Fi Protected Setup enables typical users who possess little understanding of traditional Wi-Fi configuration and security settings to automatically configure new wireless networks, add new devices and enable security. WPS has been accompanying WPA2 since 2007, with over 200 wireless routers that support WPS with WPA2. Warning: This guide is to showcase weaknesses in Wifi security standards & is purely for educational purposes only. If you’ve an intention other than ‘fun’ & ‘learning’, you can…

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Download Symantec NAV, PCAnywhere Source Code

Tarandeep Singh

This could be one of the biggest disasters for a company. Hackers stole the source code of Symantec’s pcAnywhere back in 2006 and have now claimed to release it to public. In the meantime hackers stole all source code for all the Symantec products i.e Norton Antivirus, Norton works, Internet security, etc. The hackers had been threatening Symantec in a series of e-mail negotiations with what they thought were representatives of Symantec. The group is known as Yamatough, Indian hacker force operating under the umbrella of Anonymous, had been demanding a $50,000…

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SEAndroid: Security Enhanced Android by NSA

Tarandeep Singh

Android is the most secure mobile smartphone OS in the market today, thanks to the inherent sandboxing inspired from world’s most secure browser: Chrome. Such security is really consumer grade, its secure in the real world but may not be secure enough for driving Top most secret tasks like the ones Government agencies like NSA is involved with. The National Security Agency (NSA) released the first version of their custom build of Google’s popular OS, called Security Enhanced Android. The system is designed to minimize the impact of security holes…

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Linux Growth Rate, Trends [Infographic]

Tarandeep Singh

Linux OS, with time, is emerging as a fairly popular Operating System. There was time when Desktop PC was considered to be the major part of the Computers segment. Times have changed, thanks to new powerful Clouds and computing grids, servers now form a big part of the computers. On Desktop PCs, Windows is still holds the majority, followed by OSX which forms around 10% of the desktop market. But 2011 and 2012 are the years of smartphones and tablets, a domain where Windows has failed to compete with Linux…

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James Gosling leaves Google, joins Robotics startup

Tarandeep Singh

After spending only months at Google (March-August 2011), The Father of Java, James Gosling, makes yet another switch. This time its not another software giant but rather a startup that he thinks suits his desires. Soon after the Oracle-Sun merger, James decided to move on and had being onto his night hacks, not working for a particular company. This year, he joined Google in pursuit of bigger ambitions. He quotes: “I’ve surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people,…

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Java 7 Features - What’s New

Tarandeep Singh

The long awaited and the most delayed version of Java is finally made available to public. The last Java update was in December 2006 and Java 7 was originally planned for 2009. Oracle announced this morning that Java 7 has matured because of the hard work done by open review and extensive collaboration between Oracle engineers and members of the worldwide Java ecosystem. “Java 7 is the release everybody has been waiting for quite a long time,” said Ben Evans of the London Java Community (LJC). Evans, who also is the LJC’s…

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