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Ben Rady's Serverless Single Page Apps (The Pragmatic Programmers)

You don't need to manage your own servers to build powerful Web applications. Need proof?

Reading Web Comics via Bash Script

I follow several Web comics. I used to open my Web browser and check out each comic's Web site. That method was fine when I read only a few Web comics, but it became a pain to stay current when I followed more than about ten comics. These days, I read around 20 Web comics. It takes a lot of time to open each Web site separately just to read a Web comic.

May 2016 Issue of Linux Journal

The Power of Free When I was a kid, I saved my money for weeks in order to buy the Aerobie.

The Humble Hacker?

Two of our favorite things have come together: The Humble Bundle and Hacking!

AdaCore's SPARK Pro

With this new version of the SPARK Pro toolset, AdaCore comes one step closer to its goal of making the writing of proven software both efficient and pleasant.

Linaro Announces Software Reference Platform for ARM

With the launch of its Software Reference Platform for ARMv8-A processors, Linaro is proud to enable both a complete end-to-end open-source server software stack and access to ent

Parts of a Slow Web Application

In my last article, I started discussing how to optimize a Web application, looking at the different aspects of an app and where the slowness might come from.

Symbolic Math on Android

For this article, I'm returning to portable science software on Android. In a previous article, I looked at a program called xcas/giac. This program is an open-source engine that is used to handle symbolic manipulation of mathematical equations. Because it is open source, it has been ported to several different platforms.

Non-Linux FOSS: CreateUserPkg

For Linux users, scripting user installation is fairly simple. It's possible, but not quite as simple with OS X. Thanks to Per Olofsson, it's possible to distribute user accounts as installable packages that are as simple as a double-click to install.

What's New in 3D Printing, Part IV: OctoPrint

This is the last article in a four-part series on the current state of 3D printing. In the first part, I gave an overall introduction to differences in 3D printing since I wrote my original articles on 3D printing three years ago. The second piece focused on advances in 3D printing hardware, and the third column covered 3D printing software.