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Barix has launched Barionet 1100, 400, and 200 programmable I/O controllers that run OpenWrt Linux on a MIPS-based MediaTek MT6720A SoC and offer Lua scripting and a “FLEXA” cloud service. Switzerland based Barix, which is primarily known for audio streaming technology such as the new AudioPoint 3.0, has offered its Barionet line of programmable I/O […]

I've had several opportunities to do IT work in less-developed and remote areas, where internet coverage and technology access aren't at the high level we have in our first-world cities. Many people heading off to undeveloped areas ask me for advice on preparing for the local technology landscape. Since conditions vary greatly around this big world, it's impossible to give specific advice for most areas, but I do have some general suggestions based on my experience that may help you. read more

Unfortunately for the security of our applications, we usually don't "build security in" with development; instead we wait until the last possible moment and slap in security measures, typically forming a police-type security department and creating adversarial feelings between the security folks and the developers. read more

In the last article in this series, I shared some ways to teach kids to program with Raspberry Pi. In theory, there is absolutely nothing stopping an adult from using resources designed for kids, but you might be better served by learning the programming languages that are in demand in the job market. Here are three programming languages you can learn with the Raspberry Pi. read more

News briefs for March 6, 2019.

Will our digital lives leave a fossil record? Or any record at all?

Do you love to cook? Looking for a better way to manage your recipes using Fedora? GNOME Recipes is an awesome application available to install in Fedora to store and organize your recipe collection. GNOME Recipes is an recipe management tool from the GNOME project. It has the visual style of a modern GNOME style […]

I have to admit, it took me a rather embarrassingly long time to really get into Linux as a daily driver. One thing I recall from these years in the wilderness was how strange it was to watch open source types get so worked up about text editors. It wasn't just that opinions differed. Disagreements were intense. And you'd see them again and again. read more

Google has launched a sandwich-style, $150 “Coral Dev Board” with an RPi-like 40-pin header that runs Linux on an i.MX8M with an Edge TPU chip for accelerating TensorFlow Lite. The USB stick version sells for $75. Google unveiled its embedded oriented Edge TPU version of its Tensor Processing Unit AI chip in July. More details […]

How to use ncurses to manipulate your terminal screen.

In previous articles, including How does rootless Podman work?, I talked about Podman, a tool that enables users to manage pods, containers, and container images. read more

News briefs for March 5, 2019.

As countless schools, libraries, and families have proven, the Raspberry Pi is a great way to expose kids to programming. In the first four articles in this series, you've learned about purchasing, installing, and configuring a Raspberry Pi. In this fifth article, I'll share some helpful resources to get kids started programming with the Raspberry Pi. read more

OctoberCMS is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS) and web platform based on the PHP programming language and Laravel web application. In this tutorial, we will be going to explain how to install OctoberCMS on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

In 2012, after experiencing performance and scaling limitations with the CI/CD solution we were using, my team at Yahoo started searching for another platform. We didn’t find a solution that met our rapidly growing developer needs, so we built Screwdriver. It is the product of our CI/CD journey at scale, lessons gathered along the way, and enormous amounts of feedback from our internal developers. After seeing the value Screwdriver added, we decided to open source it in 2016 to share our solution with the global DevOps community. read more

Newark Element14 and Avnet announced a Raspberry Pi based “SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway” with 2x Ethernet, WiFi/BT, CAN, serial, and optional Zigbee, Z-Wave, or LoRa. Avnet, which last year launched the Zynq UltraScale+ based ‘Ultra96 96Boards CE SBC, announced plans for the Avnet SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway at the CES show in early January. At […]

NodeBB is a Node.js based forum software built for the modern web. It's built on either a MongoDB or Redis database. In this guide, we will guide you step-by-step through the NodeBBB installation process on the Debian 9 operating system using Nginx as the reverse proxy, MongoDB as the database, and acme.sh and Let's Encrypt for HTTPS.

Kontron’s has launched two rugged KBox IoT gateways that run Yocto Linux on the Raspberry Pi CM3 (KBox A-330-RPI) and dual-core i.MX6 (KBox A-330-MX6). The systems offer 10-year availability and industrial I/O including CAN. Designed for cost-sensitive industrial control and gateway applications, Kontron’s new KBox A-330-RPI and KBox A-330-MX6 gateways feature compact, 111 x 76 […]

News briefs for March 4, 2019.

Project Jupyter is a set of open-source software projects that form the building blocks for interactive and exploratory computing that is reproducible and multi-language. The main application offered by Jupyter is the Jupyter Notebook, a web-based interactive computing platform that allows users to author documents that combine live code, equations, narrative text, interactive dashboard and other rich media.