The 2016 Open Source Yearbook Now Available For Download

In 2015, Opensource.com published the first Open Source Yearbook, a collaboration with open source communities to collect a diverse range of stories from the year.

Thanks to contributions from more than 25 writers, the 2016 edition is even bigger and highlights more than 100 organizations, projects, technologies, and events.

Get your free PDF download of the 2016 Open Source Yearbook.

Source: Announcing the 2016 Open Source Yearbook: Download now

The second edition of this book hits the high spots of the Open Source ecosystem. From the Raspberry Pi to OpenStack, from sysadmin tools to games, from public policy to hot careers, it’s all in here. The book is available on the web as a linked set of articles and as a nicely designed 94 page PDF. Be sure to check it out.

The Ultimate WordPress Development Environment – wpmudev

Over the past couple of years, I’ve written loads of tutorials here on the WPMU DEV Blog in which I share tidbits about the development environments I use. So today, I thought it’s about time I share a full environment, the kind I would put together and use for larger scale development. Roll up your sleeves and get ready to get your hands dirty! Because below is a full walkthrough of the kind of development environment I set up, and how you do can it, too.

Source: The Ultimate WordPress Development Environment – wpmudev

Mycroft Available as Raspberry Pi Image – Mycroft

Mycroft now has a Raspberry Pi image that is ready to run. Developers, makers, hackers and enthusiasts can download the image to their Raspberry Pi and create their own Mycroft enabled projects.
This image is specifically designed to run without any configuration on your own Raspberry Pi 2 or 3.  Just plug-in a speaker and a low-cost USB microphone, and you have everything you need to start working on your own voice agent.

Source: Mycroft Available as Raspberry Pi Image – Mycroft

MariaDB ColumnStore Adds Simultaneous Analytics, Transactional Processing – The New Stack


InnoDB or the other default MySQL storage engine MyISAM provide reasonable performance on analytical query workloads up to 100,000 rows or tables under a million rows. Performance is harder to tune and maintain beyond that, Thompson wrote in a blog post.
ColumnStore is suitable for reporting or analysis on much larger data sets. Mobile applications of customer Pinger, for example, process millions of text messages and phone calls with ColumnStore, in addition to more than 1.5 billion rows of logs per day.

Source: MariaDB ColumnStore Adds Simultaneous Analytics, Transactional Processing – The New Stack

Looks interesting. We’ve had performance issues with our large db tables for years that we’ve managed to work around, but it’s likely time to take a look at a redesign around a newer technology.