Monthly Archives: November 2015
An Introduction to Open Source Programming Languages
Programming is a matter of instructing a computer to perform certain tasks. Code, which is a language that the computer understands, comes in many...
Why Are Organisations Moving to Microservices?
Microservices is a software architecture style in which complex applications are composed of small, independent, narrowly-focused processes communicating with each other using language independent...
OpenModelica: A Powerful Engineering Modelling and Simulation Tool
The use of modelling and simulation in engineering has long been an accepted practice. Models represent the real systems either as physical reproductions in...
Using GNU Emacs as an Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) provides instant communication over the Web. It is generally used for one-to-one communication or group discussion forums, also known as...
Python and Pcap in NS-3
Having explored ns-3 for the past five months in OSFY, we now have come to the concluding article in the series. Through the series,...
The Rise of Mobile Application Development Platforms
There is a huge market for enterprise-ready mobile cross-platform development tools as a result of the increasing diversity in the mobile device ecosystem. Enterprises...
An Easy-to-Follow Git Based Development Workflow
This article provides a cookbook-style Git workflow to help project teams and developers. The workflow is intended for small open source projects that have...
JavaScript The New Parts
ECMAScript2015 (ES6) is the specification that defines new features in JavaScript. In the second part of this series on JavaScript, let us look at...
Getting Started with Dart
Dart is an open source Web programming language that has been rolled out by Google. It is scalable, and has robust libraries and runtimes...
Building A Music Player Application in App Inventor
Continuing with our series on building Android apps with App Inventor 2, we present our DIY fans with a project to build a simple...