Open Source Journal
The latest issue of the Open Source Journal is now available! Click on the image below to download your free Open Source Journal pdf.
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Vision
The Open Source Journal was founded as a central published resource where articles, knowledge sharing, and interesting news from the world of open source technology would be freely available to the community.
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Submitted articles
Click below to see some of the latest articles submitted by experienced authors, speakers and open source enthusiasts.
OSC User Group
The Open Source Central User Group (OSC UG) is an environment where anybody with an interest in all things open source can meet up, mingle, share ideas and collaborate.
The group ranges from beginners to experts, and there's no requirement to be a guru to be involved.
Next Event
We are running a number of breakfast seminars to introduce new ideas & concepts, discuss hot topics with the experts - all with thought leaders doing presentions.
The next one is on the 23rd June.
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Archived
Presentation documentation and video of all events will be archived in this section.
Benefits
The OSC User Group offers technical talks on various open source topics. The talks cover a wide range of technologies and are given by experts in their given fields.
Also, as members of the Open Source Central User Group you may benefit from discounted tickets to events such as the Skills Matters eXchange's and QCon etc.
Spring in Finance
eXchange Discount!
OSC is pleased to offer tickets to the Skills Matter Spring in Finance eXchange for only £25.
The Spring in Finance eXchange, a full day of sessions on Spring and how Spring is used in financial services, is taking place on the 21st May.
More details →
Contact us
If you have anything you want to ask or discuss, e-mail the head of the Open Source Central User Group, e-mail the head of the Open Source Central User Group Jan Machacek.
Open Source Central
Blogs
Why Java
At Cake Solutions, we have been using Java for quite a few years. Recently, I had to formulate why our customers should chose Java over other languages. It was easy to come up with geeky reasons, but ...
Smartstay iPhone App for the Hospitality Industry
DSI has partnered with an award-winning hospitality marketing firm, O?Rourke Hospitality Marketing LLC, to help hotels open up a new mobile marketing channel using the SmartstaySM iPhone application. ...
The Danger Of Mislead Solutions: Constructor Over-Injection
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Let?s change the tune
As a community, we’re very guilty of using technical terms and confusing business users. If we want to get them more involved, we have to use the right names for the right things and stop confus...
Spring Integration: Whats going on in there? Part 1 Esper wire tap
Earlier this week Russ Miles announced the release of the OpenCredo Esper extension project (read it here). This project is something we created primarily to make using Esper, the open source Comple...
Videos
LeanSSC 2010 UK: Karl Scotland on A Kanban Multiverse - 09/07/2010
Agile Testing meetup group:Hands-On Root-Cause Analysis
Bob Marshall: QA, QC and Agile - 29/04/2010
Marco Tedane: Agile and the tests - 29/04/2010
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