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"I am much more confident in the quality of my work now, and I am sure that my new PHP/SQL certificate from the University of Illinois will pull even more trust from my clients." -- Dmytro Danylov

Open Source Programming Certificate — The course series targets students who want to acquire the skills needed for programming on any Linux or Unix platform. The Open Source Programming Certificate series is comprised of five courses that span programming skills from intermediate to complex. Students learn the core technical skills necessary for a complete understanding of programming using open source operating systems, languages, libraries and databases. Enroll today!

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Radar Report

Open Source in the Enterprise

An O'Reilly Radar Report

Using open source in the enterprise — the question is no longer "if," but "how?" The low cost, easy access, and expansive license terms of open source are certainly attractive — especially since IT budgets have decreased 3-5% every year, while software costs have increased, and IT staffs have been tasked to create web services and pursue Web 2.0 initiatives. Get the report.

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Open Source Answers

O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

• Screencasting software: Any recommendations?
• What sorts of projects are you building with Cassandra?
• Open source project management software available in Chinese?
• What's your experience with Solr?
• Is there any general open source smart update utility for enterprise software
• Third-Party Code for iPhone Game Development
• Can the developer community help resurrect Visual Hub (open source video encoder)?
• How to use the Sesame Java API to power a Web or Client-Server Application
• What is the math behind "Autotune"? Is there anything open source that could be used to create an "autotune" filter?
• What are the most important books you've read about open source software?

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Open Source News & Commentary

Four short links: 19 January 2010

By Nat Torkington
January 19, 2010

Stack Overflow Data Dump -- all public data in Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User. OpenBTS -- an open-source Unix application that uses the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) to present a GSM air interface ("Um") to standard GSM handset and uses the Asterisk software PBX to connect calls. Portable mobile phone basestation that routes calls over the...

Four short links: 15 January 2010

By Nat Torkington
January 15, 2010

The Open Laboratory -- collection of the best science writing on blogs from the last year. For more, see an interview with the author. Part of a growing trend where online comes first and feeds offline. (via sciblogs) Nat Friedman Leaving Novell -- one of the original Ximian founders, with interests in many directions and the coding chops to...

Four short links: 14 January 2010

By Nat Torkington
January 14, 2010

Four Possible Explanations for Google's Big China Move (Ethan Zuckerman) -- I'm staying out of the public commentary on this one, but Ethan's fourth point was wonderfully thought provoking: a Google-backed anticensorship system (perhaps operated in conjunction with some of the smart activists and engineers who’ve targeted censorship in Iran and China?) would be massively more powerful (and threatening!)...

Four short links: 11 January 2010

By Nat Torkington
January 11, 2010

mytop -- a MySQL top implementation to show you why your server is so damn slow right now. What Could Kill Elegant High-Value Participatory Project? -- The problem was not that the system was buggy or hard to use, but that it disrupted staff expectations and behavior. It introduced new challenges for staff [...]. Rather than adapt to these...

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Open Source Experts

whurley is the Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. where he is responsible for creating BMC's open source agenda and overseeing the company's participation in various free, and open source software communities.

Van Lindberg is a software engineer and practicing attorney. What he does most, though, is translate - from "lawyer" to "engineer" and back. He likes working with both computer code and legal code to get things done. Van's current work touches both traditional intellectual property and the emerging field of open source…

Tyler Mitchell is the author of Web Mapping Illustrated - a book focused on teaching how to use popular Open Source Geospatial Toolkits. He works as the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, aka OSGeo.

Todd Ogasawara is the editor of MobileAppsToday.com. He has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Mobile Devices category for the past several years. You can find his personal website focusing on Mobile Device Technology at www.mobileviews.com.

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