Open Source generically, refers to a program in which the source code is free available for the general public to use and/or modification from its original design, and the code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community.

Open Source

The merits of Open Source vs Closed Source (Proprietary)…

At IDR Solutions we are big fans of Open Source Software and use it in our day-to-day lives a lot along with a variety...
Alex Marshall
3 min read

Remotely deploy projects to the Raspberry Pi using NetBeans…

The Raspberry Pi is not a very powerful device, however as it is so flexible, it is a very useful machine to have to...
Richard Bound
2 min read

9 tools to help you with Java Performance Tuning

Previously I wrote an article about 5 tools to help you write better java code which helped to improve our code but also our...
Alex Marshall
4 min read

Tutorial : How to Create Stacked Menus in JavaFX

At IDRSolutions, our PDF Viewer (part of our JPedal Library) currently uses Java Swing to create the PDF Viewer interface. However, we are now in...
Nathan Howard
2 min read

Top 5 Free Hosted Version Control Sites Compared

Recently, some friends and I decided to get together and make a good old-fashioned text adventure game. We could have used an existing engine,...
Sam Howard
2 min read