The Open Source NYC meetup group hosted their February meeting at the Boyle Software Chelsea office last night.
Despite the snow there was a decent turnout to kick off a new open source initiative.
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Open Source NYC meets up
We have been thrilled to play host to the Open Source NYC Meetup a couple of times in recent months at our HQ at 42 West 24th. Last week’s Meetup featured a compelling discussion of intellectual property law as it relates to open source development. Topics ranged from the problem of proprietary platforms constructed upon open source foundations to more nuts-and-bolts issues like licensing. Back in July the discussion was all about GitHub in the wake of its acquisition by Microsoft, with people from GitHub as well as GitLab there to answer questions and share their insights.
OpenCV 4 and TensorFlow 2
Over the past year I’ve spent a fair amount of time working on projects in the computer vision domain. I recently became aware of a couple of announcements about OpenCV and TensorFlow that are pretty exciting and I wanted to share. Continue reading
Let’s Talk GitHub!
A little over a month ago, Microsoft acquired GitHub – the go-to versioning platform for many in the open source community. We shared a few of our thoughts about this news when it happened, but we’re really interested to hear if other folks think this may change their approach to using GitHub.
That’s why we are thrilled to be hosting a Meetup for Open Source NYC at our office next week to talk about this very topic. Continue reading
Open Source Survey Results
Here are the results of our recent, internal, UN-scientific survey of open source packages that we’ve used in the recent past. Its a long, sorted, de-duped list, but neither comprehensive, nor hierarchical. Still it gives a sense of the breadth and scale of the open source code in almost all modern software development projects these days. Enjoy.
Updated OpenID Connect Authenticator for Apache Tomcat
In the age of RESTful APIs and single-page applications the traditional Java Servlet-based web-applications with server-side page rendering and server-side HTTP session tracking no longer look sexy. Nonetheless, the technology is still quite popular and is used widely. Continue reading
Coming Soon – More Open Source AI
The Linux Foundation recently announced a new open source AI project in collaboration with AT&T and Tech Mahindra. The Acumos Project is expected to launch in early 2018 and will “expedite innovation and deployment of AI applications, and make them available to everyone.” according to Mazin Gilbert, Vice President of Advanced Technology at AT&T Labs. Continue reading
Announcing #HackTor
Generally finding bugs is a problem, unless you can get paid for doing it! This week, The Tor Project announced a new bounty program for folks who can find bugs in Tor and Tor Browser. Earn up to $4,000 per bug depending on the severity.
Details are available at HackerOne, so sign up for an account and start trying to break stuff!
X2 TechTalk enlightens
x2node’s creator, Lev Gimelfarb, presented an excellent TechTalk last night at Boyle Software’s NYC headquarters. Lev gave a high-level overview of X2 – pronounced “Times Two” – and provided a demo of the brand new Node.js-based framework in action.
Squeezing all the juice from HTTP/2
Since we are well into the 21st century and HTTP/1.1 is no longer enough for most of us, let’s discuss some ways we can speed up our websites to run them faster, more securely, etc.
Many people have heard of HTTP/2 protocol, but not everyone knows how to use all its features.
Lets take a look at some 🙂