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"Bintray is a social service for developers to publish, download, store, promote, and share open source software packages. With Bintray's full self-service platform developers have full control over their published software and how it is distributed to the world."

In January of this year, @nvie published "A successful Git branching model", in which he explained how he keeps his Git repositories nice and tidy. In addition to that, he released git-flow; a bunch of Git extensions to make following this model extremely easy. I'm astounded that some people never heard of it before, so in this article I'll try to tell you why it can make you happy and cheerful all day.

Pamflet is a publishing application for short texts, particularly user documentation of open-source software. It is designed to be easy to write and read on any platform.

Nux is an open-source Java toolkit making efficient and powerful XML processing easy. It is geared towards embedded use in high-throughput XML messaging middleware such as large-scale Peer-to-Peer infrastructures, message queues, publish-subscribe and matchmaking systems for Blogs/newsfeeds, text chat, data acquisition and distribution systems, application level routers, firewalls, classifiers, etc.

Data.js is a data representation framework for Javascript. It is being developed in the context of Substance, a web-based document authoring and publishing engine. It took some inspiration from various existing libraries such as the Google Visualization API or Underscore.js.  You can report bugs and discuss features on the GitHub issues page, on Freenode IRC in the #_substance chann el, post questions to the Google Group, or send tweets to @_substance. With Data.js you can: Model your domain data using a simple graph-based object model that can be serialized to JSON. Traverse your graph, including relationships using a simple API. Manipulate and query data on the client (browser) or on the server (Node.js) by using exactly the same API. 

"Collection+JSON is a JSON-based read/write hypermedia-type designed to support management and querying of simple collections. It is similar to the The Atom Syndication Format (RFC4287) and the The Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC5023) . However, Collection+JSON defines both the format and the semantics in a single media type. It also includes support for Query Templates and expanded write support through the use of a Write Template."

"But when Mark Russinovich, Microsoft's CTO for Azure, took the stage at Build 2015 in San Francisco Wednesday morning to demonstrate how containerized microservices applications work in Windows Server. [...] As is his wont, he dove right in to a demonstration of using Docker Build (on a PowerShell command line) to package and deploy an ASP.NET web site as a Docker container. [...] He took only a few seconds to package the web site into a container image, then he ran the package with the docker run command. [...] And then he paused, took the temperature of the room, and may have recognized that Windows developers may have been completely confused by what they were seeing. [...] So Russinovich asked for a show of hands of folks in the room who might have heard of something called Linux. (Don't worry, he's done this before.) [...] He then used a new build of Visual Studio, running in Windows, to publish the container to the Linux host. He then proceeded to debug the running Linux app, including setting a remote breakpoint, from Visual Studio. [...] Without saying so explicitly, Mark Russinovich was obsoleting much of Windows Server before developers' eyes."

"The Murano Project introduces an application catalog to OpenStack, enabling application developers and cloud administrators to publish various cloud-ready applications in a browsable categorized catalog. Cloud users -- including inexperienced ones -- can then use the catalog to compose reliable application environments with the push of a button."

"Registrator automatically register/deregisters services for Docker containers based on published ports and metadata from the container environment. Registrator supports pluggable service registries, which currently includes Consul, etcd and SkyDNS 2."

"I published two such Tables of Elements about a year ago, click here to check them out. This one is a new one, focusing on machine learning libraries (R and Julia). And it is interactive, with access to the various libraries listed in the table, when clicking on an element (only on the original article)."

"Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public's benefit. Let's Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). The key principles behind Let's Encrypt are: Free: Anyone who owns a domain name can use Let's Encrypt to obtain a trusted certificate at zero cost. Automatic: Software running on a web server can interact with Let's Encrypt to painlessly obtain a certificate, securely configure it for use, and automatically take care of renewal. Secure: Let's Encrypt will serve as a platform for advancing TLS security best practices, both on the CA side and by helping site operators properly secure their servers. Transparent: All certificates issued or revoked will be publicly recorded and available for anyone to inspect. Open: The automatic issuance and renewal protocol will be published as an open standard that others can adopt. Cooperative: Much like the underlying Internet protocols themselves, Let's Encrypt is a joint effort to benefit the community, beyond the control of any one organization."

"NIST recently published its four-volume SP800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines. Among other things, it makes three important suggestions when it comes to passwords: Stop it with the annoying password complexity rules. They make passwords harder to remember. They increase errors because artificially complex passwords are harder to type in. And they don't help that much. It's better to allow people to use pass phrases. Stop it with password expiration. That was an old idea for an old way we used computers. Today, don't make people change their passwords unless there's indication of compromise. Let people use password managers. This is how we deal with all the passwords we need."

"Every GitHub Page is run through Jekyll when you push content to a specially named branch within your repository. For User Pages, use the master branch in your username.github.io repository. "