- HFOSS: Smoke Test an XO Laptop
The XO laptop deployed by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program For the next homework assignment in my Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development (HFOSS) course, we were tasked with running a smoke test of the XO laptops we are …
- HFOSS: Double Bugfix
This article is a further addition to the series of blog posts for my Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development course at RIT. For this week’s homework, we are tasked with finding an open source project, looking at known bugs or finding …
- The Most Important Part of Your Project Might Not Even Be a Line of Code
Open-source licensing: how does it affect your work? Today’s entry to the blog is sourced from a thread that I posted on the SpigotMC Forums. If you wish to join in the discussion about this, feel free to chime in on the thread or leave a comment on …
- HFOSS: Reviewing "What Is Open Source?", Steve Weber
Steve Weber This blog post is part of an assignment for my Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development course at the Rochester Institute of Technology. For this assignment, we are tasked with reading Chapter 3 of Steve Weber’s “The …
- HFOSS: The First Flight
FOSS @ MAGIC (http://magic.rit.edu/foss/), the program that hosts the FOSS minor This past year, I enrolled as a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. For me, this is quite a distance from my hometown just outside of …
- Gotta Badge 'Em All: Speak Up!
This article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Speak Up! badge! “Speak Up!”: What is it? 🔗 \"Participated in an IRC meeting.\" The Speak Up! badge is categorized as a “Community Badge” and is …
- Gotta Badge 'Em All: Vacation
This article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Vacation badge! “Vacation”: What is it? 🔗 \"Sip the lemonade away (You deserve it for remembering your responsibility)!\" The Vacation badge is …
- WordPress Cron, CloudFlare, and SSL
Edit: I haven’t tried this in a while, but this is one of my most popular blog posts. If you try this and it works, please consider leaving a comment and let me know if anything can be improved. Thanks! Thanks to the power of LetsEncrypt, I recently …
- Gotta Badge 'Em All: Science
This article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Science badge! “Science”: What is it? 🔗 \"You completed a run of the kernel regression test suite\" The Science badge is categorized as a …
- Thirteen Year Legacy: Last.fm Downfall?
The Last.fm logo. Source: Xfdr (http://www.xfdrmag.net/ive-had-the-last-of-this-why-the-new-last-fm-layout-sucks/) Last.fm is a web service for users to track and share their music tastes with friends in an easy, simple way. A single play of a song …