Interviews

interviews

Interview with Mikeal Rogers: Node.js fork that ended up as a giant, unifying step forward

Node.js is the software that allows you to run Javascript to create amazingly powerful server-side applications by using Google's V8 Javascript Engine. As a Node developer myself, I have always felt f ...

by admin – 6/18/2015

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Zurmo, the free CRM: Interview with Ray Stoeckicht

I had the privilege to interview Ray Stoeckicht, the co-founder of an exciting new free software/open souce company creating Zurmo. Zurmo is a "social CRM": a program aimed at making CRM fun (if you k ...

by Tony Mobily – 2/6/2013

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The newsroom’s ally: Ally-Py

*Software architect Gabriel Nistor talks to Trevor Parsons about Ally-Py, the new Free Software framework designed to get the most from web APIs.* Sourcefabric’s Superdesk enables news organisations t ...

by Daniel James – 11/8/2012

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Interview with Lars J. Nilsson, author of free online gambling software

Not long ago, after giving a speech about free software I was asked by an audience member whether the free software community had come up with free (as in freedom) gambling software. I answered "no", ...

by Tony Mobily – 6/8/2012

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Interview with Igor Sysoev, author of Apache's competitor NGINX

NGINX is the new start rising in the landscape of web servers. Well, it's hardly "new" -- it will soon turn 10. However, it's definitely rocking the web server world, with Netcraft showing a huge incr ...

by Tony Mobily – 1/5/2012

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Interview with Adam Green and Jonathan Gray, founders of The Public Domain Review

Adam is a Berlin-based writer and artist. Jonathan works at a not-for-profit organisation called the Open Knowledge Foundation and studies philosophy and intellectual history at the University of Lond ...

by Tony Mobily – 9/6/2011

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Interview: Nina Paley (author of "Sita Sings the Blues" and the two "Minute Meme" animations)

In lieu of today's regular column, I've decided to present an edited transcript of a very informative interview of Nina Paley by Thomas Gideon of "The Commandline Podcast." Paley has been doing a lot ...

by Terry Hancock – 3/15/2010

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A talk with Brandon Whichard about Zenoss, the cloud, Amazon's EC2 and more

The recent announcement of Zenoss of their new EC2 module got my attention. Everybody talks about the cloud, complain about it, fear it, snub it... and then some companies (and people) write free soft ...

by Tony Mobily – 11/27/2009

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Interview with Daniel Chalef of KnowledgeTree

I recently installed KnowledgeTree for a small office that needed a piece of document management software. Document management is one of those things: you don't think you need one until you actually _ ...

by Tony Mobily – 7/7/2009

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Interview with Amanda McPherson of LinuxCon in Portland

I had the pleasure to talk to Amanda McPherson, one of the minds behind LinuxCon, "LinuxCon is a new annual technical conference that will provide an unmatched collaboration and education space for al ...

by Tony Mobily – 7/6/2009

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Firewall Builder: an interview with Vadim Kurland

About two years ago I published an article about Firewall Builder. Now that the version 3.0 is out I had a catch-up interview with its creator, Vadim Kurland, and I discovered a number of new interest ...

by Marco Marongiu – 4/13/2009

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Interview: Bringing a community together with free software

At a recent free software advocacy event I encountered a great example of free software being used in the community. Chris Kilby has been running an IT suite for residents of his local housing estate ...

by Ryan Cartwright – 2/19/2009

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Interview with Liam Bennett: creating a SMS service in Australia using GNU/Linux

I am always interested when a company uses GNU/Linux to create really, really useful services. When that company is in your own town, and I get to spend time with the person who created it and made it ...

by Tony Mobily – 1/25/2009

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Freeing your phone with the FIC Neo FreeRunner

The temptation to compare the FreeRunner and the Apple iPhone can be overwhelming. They both run a Unix-like operating system; they both have GPS, wi-fi, and accelerometers; they are both cell phones. ...

by Anthony Taylor – 10/6/2008

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Interview with Liran Tal, author of daloRADIUS

**Hello Liran. Thank you for answering our questions! First of all, you are the main developer of daloRADIUS... What is it in very simple terms?** daloRADIUS is a web application written in PHP with t ...

by Tony Mobily – 6/23/2008

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Group interview: a graphic view of the open hardware movement. Part 2: technical and social issues

The tools and techniques for creating hardware designs are very different from those used for software; and because of this, developing open hardware is a significantly different and greater challenge ...

by Terry Hancock – 5/29/2008

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Interview with the Ekiga developers

Ekiga is the most popular, free VoIP software available. When I asked the Ekiga team for an interview, there was a lot I didn't know. For example, I had no idea I'd be interviewing quite so many peopl ...

by Tony Mobily – 4/29/2008

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DRM and the BBC iPlayer: an interview with Paul Battley

In this post I will interview Paul Battley, the man who wrote the program that worked around the DRM loophole at the BBC. No GNU/Linux user needs to be told what DRM (aka Trusted Computing, aka Pallad ...

by Gary Richmond – 4/28/2008

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Interview with Kurt Denke, the man who shut "Monster Cable" up

I was lucky enough to catch Kurt Denke for a short interview. Kurt is actually on vacation right now; however, he still found some time to answer my questions. For those who have been living under a r ...

by Tony Mobily – 4/17/2008

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Group interview: a graphic view of the open hardware movement. Part 1: motivations

Excitement in the Open Graphics community is quite high as it approaches its first production run of the FPGA-based "Open Graphics Development" board, known as "OGD1". It will be available for pre-sal ...

by Terry Hancock – 2/13/2008