Open Source Projects of the Month - March

Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that "will become the standard for writing logic customization Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   Issue #97 - March 3, 2021 Sponsor Try IBM Cloud for free Take IBM Cloud for a spin at no cost. With an IBM Cloud Lite account, try 40+ services for free, including Watson APIs, DevOps tools and more. No credit card required. No time limits. Get Started Microsoft Launches Power Fx, a New Open Source Low-Code Language Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that "will become the standard for writing logic customization across Microsoft's own low-code Power Platform," reports TechCrunch. "[S]ince the company is open-sourcing the language, Microsoft also hopes others will implement it as well and that it will become the de facto standard for these kinds of use cases." Read More on Slashdot.org Popular Projects: MX-Linux A midweight OS designed to combine an elegant and efficient desktop with simple configuration, high stability, solid performance and medium-sized footprint. Atom A hackable text editor for the 21st Century simutrans A free transportation simulator game GSmartControl Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger) You can message and share files inside your intranet without a server. Sponsor Webinar: Chaos and feature experimentation with AWS Join Adrian Cockcroft, VP Cloud Architecture Strategy at AWS, to learn how to build more resilient systems. You'll take away best practices for using chaos engineering to catch unknowns early and safely roll out new functionality with feature flags. Register Now Parallel shells with xargs: Utilize all your cpu cores on UNIX and Windows One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this article is file compression, but the problem rises with many computationally intensive tasks, such as image/audio/media processing, password cracking and hash analysis, database Extract, Transform, and Load, and backup activities. It is understandably frustrating to wait for gzip * running on a single CPU core, while most of a machine's processing power lies idle. Read More on LinuxJournal. Cloud Native Modernization with SQL Server on Linux SUSE and Microsoft allow organizations to successfully harness the power of data by consolidating their database needs with Microsoft SQL Server running on SUSE Linux. This consolidation aims to reduce administration costs and increase platform flexibility across on premises or cloud environments. You can run highly available systems on Azure today using Pay-As-You-Go or Bring-Your-Own-Subscription options. Download Geek Guide Conferences and Events (Live and Virtual) Python Web Conf March 22 - 26, 2021 The 3rd annual Python Web Conf is a virtual event designed to promote best practices for hard web production problems. It features international experts presenting on 48 topics such as Django, Flask, Pyramid, Tornado, Plone, CI/CD, Containers, Serverless, REST APIs, web security, microservices, websockets, etc. DrupalCon April 12 - 16, 2021 The open source digital experience conference for Drupal. Black Hat Asia 2021 May 4-7, 2021 During this week, information security experts will teach interactive, online Trainings, innovative research will be presented at Briefings, the latest open-source tools will be showcased at Arsenal, and the Business Hall will feature top-tier security solutions and service providers, plus ample networking events and opportunities. Final Thoughts If you know someone who is not getting this mailing, encourage them to sign up. Thanks for being part of the SourceForge community! And, if you need to get in touch directly, feel free to send us an email at CommunityTeam@sourceforge.net.   Privacy Policy    Unsubscribe    Update Preferences   © 2021 Slashdot Media. All Rights Reserved.| 225 W Broadway Ste #1600 | San Diego, CA 92101