Tis the season of “top apps of the year” lists. Many are skippable. But this one compiled by password management company Meldium, now part of LogMeIn,…
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Fork in the road for Node.js
Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript environment, may be heading for a fork as a group outside of Joyent has posted its own project…
Read MoreWercker takes in $2.4 million to help developers test their code in the cloud
Wercker’s tool can check out a developer's code stored in GitHub or other repository and then notify a user whether or not that code can safely be deployed to the cloud.…
Read MoreInside Facebook’s quest to make open source better for everyone
Facebook's James Pearce came on the Structure Show this week to talk about how Facebook handles open source projects, and how the new TODO group it's part of is going help the rest of the world release their own code to the world.…
Read MoreGoogle has open sourced a tool for inferring cause from correlations
Google open sourced a new package for the R statistical computing software that's designed to help users infer whether a particular action really did cause subsequent activity. Google has been using the tool, called CausalImpact, to measure AdWords campaigns but it has broader appeal.…
Read MoreOpen journalism also means opening up your data, so others can use and improve it
Just as it does for the code behind software, opening up the data behind news stories and other forms of journalism has a number of benefits, including the fact that it's easier to detect and fix errors -- and it's easier for others to expand and re-use the data…
Read MoreMode raises $2M and opens ‘GitHub for data’ to the public
Mode is trying to do for data scientists and analysts what GitHub did for developers by giving them a place where they can find, collaborate and work on data. Formation8 led the new round, which also included Reddit's Alexis Ohanian.…
Read MoreGithub suspends co-founder over charges of sexism and intimidation
Whoever said there's no such thing as bad press didn't envisage the nightmare scenario Github is facing right now.…
Read More5 designers pick their 5 favorite product experiences, hear more at Roadmap
Check out some of the very best in product experience design, according to these designers. Hear more from them at Roadmap on November 5th and 6th in San Francisco.…
Read MoreEx-Yammer trio launches Mode: ‘GitHub for data analysis’
A new data-analysis startup called Mode has launched, thanks to a $550,000 angel round led by Yammer Founder David Sacks. Mode targets data analysts with a GitHub-like service for sharing their scripts, data and other work.…
Read MoreSoundCloud open-sources Sketchy to help other big web firms fight spammy behavior
The tool, developed internally at SoundCloud and open-sourced on Monday, aims to help large community-driven web services identify spammy followers and contributors and make it so they're "shouting into the wind."…
Read MoreStartup Runnable fancies itself as “the YouTube of code”
Runnable says it aggregates APIs and code snippets from all over the world to make the findable and usable by developers everywhere.…
Read MoreNetflix Glisten aims to ease the use of Amazon workflows
Netflix open-sources Glisten to make it faster and easier for more customers to use Amazon Web Services' Simple Workflow Service (SWF)…
Read MoreAtlassian snags two big-name directors in Jay Parikh and Enrique Salem
Facebook's Jay Parikh brings expertise in web-scale computing infrastructure, while Enrique Salem furnishes enterprise software credibility, says Atlassian president Jay Simon.…
Read MoreBoasting big-name users, Github rival RhodeCode hits version 2.0 and starts making money
It started off as a hobby project, before its team realized it was being used -- in unexpected ways -- by the likes of Bank of America. Now RhodeCode wants to do for code management what MySQL did for databases.…
Read MoreUPDATED: GitHub services return after denial-of-service attack
Many developers will be busy drumming their fingers on the desk right now, as the widely-used code-hosting service GitHub works to fight off a DDoS attack on its systems.…
Read MoreOops! GitHub did it again, relaunches binary uploads after scuttling them
GitHub shut down binary code uploads in December but last week brought them back. In the meantime, JFrog claimed lots of converts for its Bintray binary repository.…
Read MoreNetflix dives into AWS usage monitoring with Ice
Very few Amazon Web Services customers know that infrastructure better than Netflix. Now it's open sourcing its tool for tracking AWS use and spending.…
Read MoreNew from Netflix: Open-sourced gatekeeper to improve the delivery of web services
Netflix calls Zuul a robust edge services gatekeeper that can help other companies deploy web services faster and more flexibly.…
Read MoreThe designer behind Google+ leaves Facebook for startup Intercom
Rockstar designer Paul Adams has ditched Facebook for startup Intercom. Before Facebook, Adam's design work was integral with Google+ and circles. He's not the first designer to leave Facebook after a 2 year stint.…
Read MoreExclusive: Atlassian dresses up Stash to take on Github Enterprise
Atlassian hopes to outflank Github Enterprise with Stash, the new release of which supports forking, branching and private repositories.…
Read MoreCloudMunch aims to automate devops, continuous integration — the whole shebang
For developers who don't want to put together their own software development-testing-continuous integration-deployment toolsets, Cloudmunch has a service to consider.…
Read MoreBig, open data: MapR on Github and Yelp’s dataset challenge
MapR is releasing open source code and partnering with Canonical on Ubuntu, while Netflix is releasing some data for for developers to play with. Sounds like a good day for openness.…
Read MoreWant to build a better Twitter? Here’s a framework for you
Developers over at Twitter have open sourced the code for Flight, a JavaScript framework for web applications.…
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