In today’s open source roundup: Eight things you can do to help protect your WordPress site. Source: Tech
Day: August 5, 2014
Reduce Measurement System Cost with the New, Rugged CompactDAQ Controller
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•NIWeek : NI , the provider of solutions that enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges, today announced the CompactDAQ 4-slot controller . Source: Tech
Facebook’s Parse Releases PHP SDK, Its First for a Server-Side Language and Its First to Be Open Source
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•Parse today released the Parse PHP SDK, which you can download yourself from GitHub. The Facebook-owned company says the release is its first SDK for a server-side language as well as the first to be “truly open-source.” Until today, accessing Parse from PHP could only be done from the REST API. While a few Parse API wrapper libraries have…
School of Open Africa to launch in September
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•After months of discussions, deliberations, and planning between CC staff, African Regional Coordinators, African Affiliate teams, and others in the open space, Creative Commons Africa is set to storm Africa by having a continent-wide launch for School of Open in September. Source: Tech
Sneak Peek at WordPress 4.0
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•WordPress 4.0 is slated to be released August 27, 2014. A beta version of this new release of the popular content management system is available for testing. Source: Tech
Does Oracle Linux 7 Give Larry A Cutting (Open) Edge?
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•Oracle has this month introduced the Oracle-flavoured Linux 7 open source operating system. Freely distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), Oracle Linux is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and follows the RHEL7 release, which arrived this June. This distribution of Linux represents what Oracle would like to us to consider as its more open and…
SecureData enhances capability and builds on its Intellectual Property through investment in Paterva
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•5 August 2014, Maidstone, Kent – Complete security services provider, SecureData is proud and pleased to announce its acquisition of 25% of ordinary stock of Paterva (Pty) Ltd, the South African registered maker of the Maltego software suite.’Maltego’, built by Paterva, is a powerful suite of software tools used for data mining, link analysis and…