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Microsoft showered application developers with new tools on Wednesday, including a preview of the next release of Visual Studio and an all new version of the IDE that offers the full flexibility and extensibility of the flagship Visual Studio product, free of charge.

Perform powerful calculations with NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib

In today's Android roundup: Microsoft didn't make Office free for Android users out of the goodness of its heart. Plus: An Android user sues Apple over lost text messages, and check out Android Wear 5.0 Lollipop's new features.

This paper provides installation instructions for Debian linux 7 & Asterisk on a new platform.

Using Docker containers to deploy virtual applications might be a good idea, but how can an enterprise actually monitor what's going on? GroundWork believes its BoxSpy project is up to the task.

Microsoft ports .NET to Linux and Macintosh and open-sources the entire stack.

Grab your swords, as Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is looking like it's getting close to a Linux release at last.

OpenGL is a well-known standard for generating 3-D as well as 2-D graphics that is extremely powerful and has many capabilities. OpenGL is defined and released by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB). This article is an introduction to OpenGL that will help you understand drawing using OpenGL.

Automating and aligning workflows makes new tasks simpler and enables team members to switch between different components easily.

Talend 5.6, the latest version of the open source big data platform, introduces new support for Apache Spark and Storm, as well as better Internet of Things integration.

Ingenic’s tiny “Newton2? wearables module is smaller and more power efficient than the original, and runs Linux or Android on a MIPS-based Ingenic M200 SoC.

The rise of malware designed to infect Linux servers' distributed denial-of-service attacks has earned greater attention from VirusTotal, the Google-owned go-to tool for malware hunters. For security researchers that need to stay on top of emerging malware threats, the VirusTotal malware database has become an integral tool.

The version of ownCloud in Ubuntu's Universe repositories is old and full of "multiple critical security vulnerabilities." It's no secret. The ownCloud project itself asked Ubuntu to remove it so users wouldn't have vulnerable server software.

This is the simplest hacking guide that works on any HTTP enabled authentication website. It even worked on Facebook (when HTTP was the authentication method). Who can do it? Anyone from any operating system, be that a Linux, Windows or Mac with Wireshark. The implications are massive, but do we even realize it in our everyday usage?

This is a partial transcript of a meeting with Kyle Simpson, an Open Web Evangelist from Austin, TX, who's passionate about all things JavaScript. He's an author, workshop trainer, tech speaker, and OSS contributor/leader. read more

Darksiders is being worked on for Linux, but sadly as we reported before there is still a bug holding it up.

Route planning is an essential part of the connected and mobile world. Many people use commercial solutions on a daily basis to avoid traffic jams when heading home or when they plan their next business or outdoor trip. It is also a crucial part in many business areas like for garbage collection, pizza delivery, or ride sharing where speed is important to calculate thousands or even millions of high quality routes within a short time. read more

In this week's news, there are responses to Dedoimedo's question "Has Linux Lost It's Mojo", reaction to the latest Ubuntu release, a handheld Raspberry PI kickstarter and the best alternatives to notepad++

This is a report from the All Things Open conference, held this year at the Raleigh Convention Center. I attended Steven Vaughan-Nichols session on marketing and using the press in open source—this is a recap. read more

So Tuesday morning, the Internet was abuzz. Groupon has a tablet based point of sale “operating system for merchants to run their entire operation” called Gnome, which is accompanied by 28 — count ‘em 28 — trademark applications. With trademark not being the same as copyright, trademarks are constantly defended by owners because, well, that’s they way the system works (or doesn’t, depending on your perspective), and GNOME was in a position of having to spend a significant amount in defending its trademark, used for the last 17 years and officially trademarked in 2006.