What you probably didn’t know about sudo
Everybody knows sudo, right? This tool is installed by default on most Linux systems and is available for most BSD and commercial Unix variants. Still, after talking to hundreds of sudo users, the most common answer I received was that sudo is a tool to complicate life. read...
The best (and worst) ways to influence your open community
After you’ve established a positive reputation in an open community—hopefully, as we discussed in our previous article, by being an active member in and contributing productively to that community—you’ll have built up a healthy “bank balance” of credibility you can use to influence the direction of that community. What does this mean in concrete terms? It means you can contribute to the decisions...
5 reasons why I love Python
I have been using Python since it was a little-known language in 1998. It was a time when Perl was quite popular in the open source world, but I believed in Python from the moment I found it. My parents like to remind me that I used to say things like, “Python is going to be a big deal” and “I’ll be able to find a job using it one day.” It took a while, but my predictions...
Enterprise JavaBeans, infrastructure predictions, and more industry trends
As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update. read...
