What the benefit will i get, if i contribute to Open Source? This is the frequently asked question by many people. I just want to pen down the benefits which i know and i hope you will agree with it.

Benefits in contributing to Open Source

Open Source projects requires sponsors to fund their project. Few got good funding but few others are struggling to continue their project. A contributor, who does full time work in open source project requires funding to take care his needs. He has to be paid and he cannot do it for free. For those who don't get fund, check out this crowdfunding sites, these are exclusively for open source projects. Join these, get some fund and continue your dream.

Crowdfunding for Open Source Projects

There are couple of sites which indexes the open source code and provides support to search code. Recently Google announced that they removed code search support from Google code. This article provides pointer for code search engine sites.

Free Open Source Code Search Engines

Web Browser engine used to render the page from HTML, CSS and Javascript. The browsers are one of the most important tool to view the web and it is must have software in Desktop and Mobile. These new browsers will take advantage of tomorrow’s faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computing desktop and mobile architectures.

New Open Source Web Browser Engine from Google and Mozilla

The Apache Struts Project Team announced End of Life (EOL) for Struts 1.x web framework. Struts was launched in the year 2000. It is only of the widely used web framework. It gave better control over writing UI and business logic code directly in to JSPs.

Struts 1.x End Of Life. Whats alternative?

EdX is an online learning platform founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide. EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard.

EdX - The Future of Online Education from MIT and Harvard

Open Source is the way to innovate and users using it should have complete freedom. Google has came forward to declare couple of its patents on Map Reduce under Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge (OPN Pledge). There are multiple variants of open source license and using that means the product is completely free. Why OPN Pledge is required?

Google Open Source Pledge

This is the most frequently asked questions in the interview. Googling will throw many links related to this topic. How to learn the implementation of hash map? My style of learning using open source learning technique.

How hashmap works in Java. My style of learning.

MongoDB is the most exciting SQL-free database currently available in the market. The new kid on the block, called MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema free and document oriented database that focuses on the ideas of NoSQL Approach. Written in C++, it has taken rapid strides since its emergence into the public sphere as a popular way to build your database applications.

An introduction to MongoDB

What if you could reliably run PHP without Nginx or Apache, but also without relying on its internal server? What if you could do async operations in PHP with true multi threading, fully taking advantage of multi core processors without hacks or a jungle of callbacks? What if you had drag and drop installation support for your PHAR packaged web apps in an environment identical to its production counterpart? Welcome to appserver.io – the worlds first open source application server for PHP.

Appserver.io – The First Multithreaded Application Server for PHP written in PHP

Bitcoin is an open source digital currency which could be transferred in a P2P payment network. It is decentralized and it is not controlled by any central authority or banks. It is transferred from person to person and no authority will be aware of your transaction. Its quite different from PayPal or Banks.

How Bitcoin works? A simple introduction.

Recently you might have seen many news that big organization like Redhat, Fedora, Wikipedia switched their database from MySQL. Now Google also going to join them. Why everyone want to move out of MySQL? It is once a popular and stable software. What is the reason behind and what are the possible alternatives.

Is it good time to switch from MySQL and choose some other database?

People who have taken programming as their career has to do coding for almost 30 years. Will they always get an opportunity to do complex tasks or to write project from scratch? The answer is NO. Sometimes they may get but not always. What should they do?

Why Experienced Programmers Should Contribute to Open Source

I could see many many students posting this question in many forums, I want to contribute to open source but How to contribute? There are many ways to do that. I have listed a few and I hope it might be useful.

How to contribute to open source

PrestaShop is an Open Source eCommerce Solution. It comes complete with over 310 features that have been carefully developed to assist business owners in increasing sales with virtually little effort. It is being used in more than 150,000 online stores.

PrestaShop - A feature rich Open Source eCommerce solution

You may require GBs of data to do performance or load testing. How your app behaves when there is loads of data.  You need to know the capacity of your application. This is the frequently asked question from the sales team "The customer is having 100GB of data and he wants to know whether our product will handle this? If so how much RAM / Disk storage required?". This article has pointers to the large data corpus.

10 sites to get the large data set or data corpus for free

Animation in JavaScript using AnimateImages Library

Scene.js is a JavaScript timeline-based animation library for creating animation websites. As an animated timeline library, it allows you to create a chronological order of movements and positions of objects.

Scene.js - Library to Create Timeline-Based Animation

In this article we will explore basic introduction to Apache Camel

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As enterprises struggle to save and analyze more and more data, data quality suffers. Real world data contains multiple records belonging to the same customer. These records can be in single or multiple systems and they have variations across fields which makes it hard to combine them together, especially with growing data volumes. This hurts customer analytics and no AI algorithm for segmentation can produce right results. 

Zingg - Open source deduplication, data mastering and entity resolution

It is a fact the 2020 is not going the way we expected to be but when it comes to technology breakthrough we can say 2020 will be the heir of greatness. <br />Speaking of technical breakthroughs we have got artificial intelligence which is known to be taking over the mankind like a wildfire. Everything around us is connected through AI be it shopping travelling or even reading. Every other activity of ours is transforming into a whole new extent.

Top 10 AI development tools which you should know in 2020

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