Blog Posts about Open Source

A trip to the local Best Buy is like a trip down memory lane.

The 17 Days of Giveaways ran each weekday July 9-31. We gave our fans eBooks, Amazon gift cards, and more. Thank you to our fans, old and new, for participating. We hope that you had fun. Thanks for all the retweets, blog posts, and Facebook likes. We’re so sad we couldn’t give everyone a prize! Please sign up for our newsletter to stay updated on our latest news and product offerings, and maybe some upcoming contests with more opportunities to win!

Get ready for a month full of giveaways. From July 9 through the end of the month, InformIT will be having 17 days of giveaways. Each week has a theme to make sure that there’s something YOU will be excited to win!

After a year spent 'roughing it' with alternate vendor technologies, Traenk is returning to his Microsoft home.

Traenk wonders if our journey to a useable Desktop/Workstation Linux is truly over.

Traenk wonders what happened to all those promises of Linux and Open-Source goodness eclipsing the Evil Empire...

Gathering a group of talented minds for your next Code Camp, PodCamp, SQL Saturday, LinuxFest, conference or summit? Borrow a page from the St. Louis Day of .NET organizers and host a charity book drive. The surrounding community (and your tired, dusty bookshelves) will thank you.

Every month Pearson imprint brands partner with Network World to offer up expert authors as featured bloggers for their community subnet sites. Focused on Cisco, Microsoft and Open Source, each community offers a variety of hot discussions, exclusive sample chapters and giveaways to their readers.

The Central Penn Adobe User Group (CPAUG) uses a library program to share books from different publishers with members. A short Q&A with group leader Megan Fister provides some great tips for starting your own.

I've been using GWT for some years now, and I'm still contented with the easier way for web development. After having written a book on GWT development, doing a blog seemed a good idea for answering questions, and for further expanding topics that didn't get a place in the book.

Birds of a feather flock together, right? If you’re already a member of an established user group or looking for other like-minded technology evangelists, connecting with peers is an important part of being an active voice in the IT community.