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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.

• Alternative Ways to Run R
• 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?

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Open Source News & Commentary

Four short links: 8 February 2010

By Nat Torkington
February 8, 2010

Kindle Development Kit APIs -- Amazon will release a Kindle SDK. These are the API docs. (via obra on Twitter) rePublish -- all-Javascript ebook reader. (via kellan on Twitter) Peer Review: What's it Good For? (Cameron Neylon) -- harsh and honest review of peer review with some important questions for the future of science. But there is perhaps an...

Four short links: 5 February 2010

By Nat Torkington
February 5, 2010

The Public Domain Manifesto -- eloquent argument in favour of the public domain. (via BoingBoing) Clear Climate Code -- project to write and maintain software for climate science, with an emphasis on clarity and correctness. What a wonderful way for coders who aren't scientists to contribute to open and better science. (via the interesting OKFN blog) Don't Hash Secrets...

One hundred eighty degrees of freedom: signs of how open platforms are spreading

By Andy Oram
February 5, 2010

Visualize open networks--and remember how far we've already come from the days before flat-rate long distance phone calls (much less app stores for cell phones).

Four short links: 4 February 2010

By Nat Torkington
February 4, 2010

Google Ad Preferences -- my defaults look reasonable and tailored to my interest. Creepy but kinda cool: I guess that if I have to have ads, they should be ones I'm not going to hate. (via rabble on Twitter) Android and the Linux Kernel -- the Android kernel is forked from the standard Linux kernel, and a Linux kernel...

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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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