This post summarizes characteristics of the different software licenses. It is part of the post about types of free and open-source licenses.. Choosing a License Each license is different, and they have different characteristics. There is no perfect license for…
Software bill of materials (SBOM) is the list of components that conforms a given software. SBOM management should be part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). SBOM may be compound by: There was an infamous security incident related to SolarWinds…
The use of plaintext passwords in source code is unsafe and should be avoided from an Security IT point of view. Unfortunately, this is a common practice. Keep in mind that in case you are using a code repository with…
This post is an introduction to system virtualization. It is part of a series of articles about virtualization. Description of System Virtualization System virtualization implies that a system (such as an operating system is virtualized). Because it was the first…
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning computer data center resources through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. IaC is a technology that is related to configuration management. You can…
Software versioning is the process of assigning version names or numbers to software. Software Version Assignment Some software assigns the version to the software automatically. Software created Visual Studio separates four numbers with dots. The meaning of each number is:…
This post is an introduction to C++. C++ is an adaptation of C to the object-oriented paradigm. It was originally developed by Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ Versions and Standards There are different standard versions of C++. Each version is standardized through…
An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. Concepts related to API Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a standard to exchange business information between computer systems. It uses standardized…
This post features some reimplementations of MS-DOS video games. List of Reimplementations of MS-DOS Game Engines List of reimplementations of MS-DOS Video Games featured on this post: ScummVM (SCUMM) ScummVM is a reimplementation of the SCUMM game engine (1987), used…
In software engineering, continuous integration is the practice of merging all developers’ working copies to a shared mainline several times a day. Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI-CD) is the merge of both. To achieve continuous integration you need: CI/CD is one…