Black Duck&#39;s protexIP â Safer Open Source Code Usage
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Open source can immediately prompt the words &#39;law suit&#39; in some peoples&#39; minds, but Black Duck have introduced a software platform that helps developers catch and resolve potential intellectual property disputes.
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Among the factors sited: the ability to customize the software and avoid vendor lock-in.
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'The most inefficient conspirator in the world' As one of his clients told us, "Mark Radcliffe is the law when it comes to open source software."â¦
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Reinhold Weber has put together a list of signs (40 in all on his "programming list of shame") that you're a lousy PHP programmer. Here's a sampling:   don't see the need and/or benefits of a good programming IDE like Zend Studio or Eclipse PDT have never used some form of version control like Subclipse don't use a consistent methodology don't use test-driven development don't return content but echo or print it from your functions or classes return HTML, not data, strings, or objects. don't allow intelligent error handling you think reusable software equals/requires your code to be OOP   Now granted, some of them are a bit more high level than others, but if you're not headed towards a lot of these, you might change paths, hop out of that comfort zone and branch out into the community and the language a little bit more.
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The fork occupies an ambivalent place in the world of open source.  On the one hand, it is widely perceived as the worst thing that can happen to a project, pitting hacker against hacker, and dissipating coding effort that could be more usefully applied in a united way.  On the other, it is the ultimate test and guarantee of openness: if code cannot be forked, it is not truly open. read more
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The Department of Homeland Security has uncovered an average of one security glitch per 1,000 lines of code in 180 widely used open source software projects.
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As Ed Finkler points out there's a new article posted (written by him) on the C7Y site (from php|architect) talking about his Inspekt library - an introduction to the filtering library showing how to help make your applications safer.   Inspekt is a library for PHP4 and PHP5 that aims to make safe input handing easier, and unsafe actions more difficult. Inspekt establishes a new development approach by wrapping input within "cage" objects, and requiring the developer to use validation and filtering methods to test and manipulate the input data. This article provides a brief introduction to Inspekt and its capabilities.   The article covers all of the basics - what the library can do for you, how it integrates into your application and how it helps to protect you from potential problems with the data in your superglobals ($_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, etc).
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New software addresses a vulnerability that allowed previous versions to crash and execute arbitrary code.
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Open source is not always the best software.  When it's not, use something else.  Is this complicated?
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Is open source becoming the dumping ground for no-longer-wanted software, sort of like a Salvation Army dropoff point for programs instead of old clothes?
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InfoWorld - Software developers like to make installation of their programs simple and quick. So do hackers.
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Linux advocates have long insisted that open-source development results in better and more secure software. Now they have statistics to back up their claims.
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At work we're mostly an OSS shop.  Partly because I have a strong bias towards OSS but cost, reliability, security, etc are all leading factors.  For the last several months now I've been in an interesting position to prove the benefits of OSS in a real-world environment.  We've had to extend a number of OSS tools to fit into our production environment.  These are significant additions and non-trivial.  Open Source allows you to STAND on the shoulders of gods.  For example we've been having a problem with the Jakarta DBCP  connection pool.  It was running out of connections in highly threaded environments and is slow.  Certainly slower than would be necessary.  Long story short.  Last night  ...
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Open-source developers have warned of serious security holes in two Linux components that could allow attackers to take over a system by tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted image file or opening an archive. Patches exist for the bugs, which affect LHA and imlib.
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An introduction to using refactoring, unit testing and ZenTest on existing code.
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We all have a Mr. Hyde in us. Open source helps to protect the world (and ourselves) from that side.
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Ziff Davis - Vulnerabilities in LibTIFF and Xpdf could allow remote system compromise.