Articles by Dice Guest

• 

  SourceForge Interview: Open-Source Messaging

  SourceForge’s “Staff Pick” Project of the Month is Miranda IM, an open source, multi-protocol instant-messaging client. Its creators built the software with efficiency, speed, and community custo…
• 

  What Developers Need to Know About REST APIs

  By R. Paul Singh There are various reasons to adopt REST as the underlying layer and build RESTful APIs for data access. REST is enjoying widespread and rapid adoption for SOA database connectivi…
• 

  Best Practices for Selling B2B Tech Solutions

  By John White Throughout my career, I’ve sold Big Data, software, hardware, GPS, cloud services, mobile applications, and a host of other types of productivity-enhancing technology solutions into…
• 

  SourceForge Interview: PDF Split and Merge

  SourceForge’s “Staff Pick” Project of the Month is PDF Split and Merge (PDFsam), which it describes as an “easy-to-use tool with graphical and command line interfaces to split, merge, mix, and ro…
• 

  SourceForge Interview: OpenMediaVault (OMV)

  Over at SourceForge, the September “Community Choice” Project of the Month is OpenMediaVault (OMV), a next-generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. The platform o…
• 

  6 Resources for Salary Research

  By Rob Pritchett When it comes to negotiating your pay at work, you've got to arm yourself with current salary data and research or you could be selling yourself short. It doesn't matter if you'v…
• 

  Introducing Slashdot's New Build Section

  Slashdot has nearly two decades of spotting and showing off interesting projects, inventions, technologies, and hobbies. Some of them are strictly personal, some are frankly commercial, and some…
• 

  SourceForge Interview: CMDBuild

  Over at SourceForge, the August “Staff Pick” project is CMDBuild, a software platform that allows developers to configure a custom database of assets and design-related workflow processes. The So…
• 

  SourceForge Interview: A New Game Engine

  Over at SourceForge, the August Project of the Month is the community-elected VASSAL Engine, described as “a game engine for building and playing online adaptations of board and card games.” Proj…
• 

  SourceForge Interview: Enterprise Social Collaboration

  Over at SourceForge, the July Project of the Month (as elected by the community) is eXo, described as “a highly customizable, social-collaboration enterprise platform.” One of the project’s manag…