In today's open source roundup: Linus vents his frustrations about people who design "new and improved" interfaces. Plus: Ten Linux dream jobs. And five open source alternatives to Gmail Every once in ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Programming to the interface is a common concept among object-oriented programmers. It provides ...

Application programming interfaces or APIs are fast becoming like air and water. Businesses need them to survive. That basic point was driven home recently for Brian Pagano, senior director of ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Standards and convention are an essential part of computer technology. For instance, the HTTP ...

Making a small number of things with an embedded application is pretty straightforward, you usually simply plug in a programmer or debugger dongle (such as an AVRISP2) into your board with an ...

Models will commoditize. Capabilities will converge. What will endure are the interfaces agents already rely on, and the data and execution capabilities behind them.

I 2 C as many of you know, is a simple serial interface for many peripheral devices to micro controllers, but it can quickly become confusing to people who may not be accustom to it. Because of that, ...