Thursday, March 20, 2014

Bug Juice

With any Software Development project (open-source or closed), the project team will eventually run into bugs within their project. A bug in terms of software is not an insect but an error, flaw, failure, or fault in a computer program or system. The reason the term "bug" is used in computer science (even though "bug" has been used in engineering to describe errors and faults) is because one of the earliest cases of an error within a computer system was actually caused by real bug/insect. In 1947 Operators at the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, thus coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book.

Reflections on Open Source in Today's World

The Open Source community is HUGE and open source related projects/ideas/news are being shared all across the web. With the Internet being so vast it is always good to have a hub to aggregate all these open source stuff into one convenient website, and that's where Opensource.com comes into play.
Opensource.com is an online publication focused on how open source is applied to different areas including business, education, government, health, law and other disciplines of life. 
Our goal is to further the open source way by sharing the open source movement. Our community of readers is made up of those who believe that open participation and sharing can tackle the business, social, environmental, and technological challenges facing us today. -About Opensource.com
What Opensource.com means by the open source way can be broken into 5 major principles: