Tag: Open Source

From Closed to Open Source Tips

Shawn Jackson Business, Development February 6, 2019

It’s a difficult decision to open source a once closed source project. Even a project that you’ve intended to open source once it was more complete has a very heavy burden. For me, the biggest burden is not the code, or the associated IP or anything like that, it’s if the service is still on-going
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Social Accountability

Shawn Jackson Development October 20, 2015

Two services that we use at Resgrid a lot, UserVoice and Rollbar, don’t have Cordova Plugins. Every couple of months I would cruise the Internet to see if there were plugins for those services. Every time I turned up empty handed and left the cycle to repeat. After thinking about it again I decided that
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Open Source is not inherently more secure

Shawn Jackson Business, Development April 15, 2014

If your not following the Heartbleed issue, it’s an amazing issue that affects a large portion of the Internet’s secure traffic. The gist is that there was a change committed to the main codebase at the end of 2011 that allows an attacker access to the memory of the server. Any secure connection utilizing the
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