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Landscape of the High-Performance Python Ecosystem
A survey on the libraries, frameworks and options to speed up the performance of your python programs.
Best bots to improve your software development process
Software bots can assist developers in all phases of the development process. Here, we present a selection of the most useful bots you can start using right away to improve the way you create or maintain (open source) software projects.
New online code editors and cloud-based IDEs
Online code editors should be the future of programming, but we are not there yet. In this post we review the latest releases and news around the world of web-based IDEs
Adopt an open source project
Do not let your open source project die of starvation. If you cannot take care of it, put it up for adoption and help it to find a new home to keep growing.
Sustainability of open source software – Bots to the rescue
We aim to ensure the sustainability of open source software by providing a framework to model, generate, personalize and combine software bots to help in all phases of software development and maintenance, including community management
Time tracking tools for your coding tasks
Coding time tracking tools will help you understand where your programming time goes (how much of that time is actually spent coding, on what languages, doing what tasks…). Any serious developer needs one of these tools.
Git on the go with these mobile apps for Git (and GitHub)
Best apps to check and manage your Git repositories and GitHub projects from your Android or iPhone devices.
CapitalPBot – A GitHub Bot to ensure your code does not misspell WordPress
A bot to fix any misspelled mention of WordPress in your code. The bot checks the files in your pull request and asks for changes if necessary, pointing to the offending files/lines. Bringing the famous CapitalP function to your source code!
Repairnator: a program repair bot for Travis
The Repairnator project is a project to design, implement and operate a repair bot for continuous integration. After a test failure, it gets the corresponding commit, runs the best-of-breed program repair tools, and suggests a patch to the developer as a pull request on Github
WordPress – A Content-Management System to Democratize publishing
Given its importance, WordPress deserved to have a dedicated impact column in the IEEE Software magazine. IEEE Software‘s mission is to be the best source of reliable, useful, peer-reviewed information for leading software practitioners. The goal of these impact columns is to develop a better quantitative understanding of software’s impact on different industries. As such, the goal of the column is not just to describe a specific software product but to provide some insights on how the software is being developed and some metrics that help to assess its impact.
Decidim: open source software enabling participatory democracy for citizens
Decidim, for the Catalan term let’s decide, is a platform for participatory democracy which enables the creation of citizen participation portals. Decidim incorporates components to enable the proposal of initiatives, calling for assemblies, defining processes or calling for consultations.