January 16, 2014

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Cerner and Open Source

(This post was written by Nathan Beyer, Bryan Baugher and Jacob Williams.)

The use of open source software has become nearly ubiquitous in contemporary software development and it is no different for us, here at Cerner. We have been using open source software, directly and indirectly, for decades. Over the past decade, we’ve grown in maturity both in our use of open source software as well as our participation in open source communities. Our associates have long been contributors to open source communities, including helping users, logging bugs and enhancements, and submitting patches. Cerner associates also spearheaded the development of the Java Reference Implementation of the Direct Project.

Recently, we’ve decided to take another step in the open source journey by releasing complete projects on our Github organization. Although these projects seem small, they are a big step for us and just the beginning of what we hope to open up and share in the future. We hope you’ll check out these projects and participate in their development.

Project: knife-tar

Source: https://github.com/cerner/knife-tar

Knife-tar is a Chef tool for uploading and downloading Chef components from a tar file. It can be used for creating backups of your chef-server or for uploading released Chef artifacts from a repository.

Project: scrimp

Source: https://github.com/cerner/scrimp

Scrimp is a tool for interactively testing Thrift services in a web browser. It’s meant to fill the same role that browser-based REST clients fill for web services. Given the IDL files for the services, it provides a UI to help construct requests, invoke services, and display formatted responses.

culture engineering operations

Cerner Tech Talks

November 12, 2013

We are always looking for ways to share knowledge and learn new things within engineering at Cerner. Whether that be through meetups, lunch & learns, conferences, or DevCon, we have a variety of outlets available to us. Today, we’re announcing a new program we recently launched: Cerner Tech Talks. Cerner Tech Talks brings in great speakers for talks that would be of interest to engineers at Cerner. These talks will be held periodically and will vary widely in their content.

2013 Software Intern Hackfest

November 11, 2013

Providing opportunities for students to gain experience in software development and grow the skills necessary to excel in their careers after graduation is a top priority for Cerner Engineering. Our annual Software Intern Program gives students insight into the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of large-scale software projects, which are often beyond the scope of the typical academic experience. In 2013, we had a total of 224 interns across all business segments with 107 placed into the Software Intern Program to grow their experience as Software Engineers.
Project Lead the Way

Project Lead the Way

September 11, 2013

Improving the state of healthcare through innovation requires investing in others to join you on the journey; not just for today, but for the decades to come. Project Lead the Way has established the Computer Science and Software Enginering course that teaches computational thinking to high school students, and it will pilot in 60 schools across the country this fall. Providing exposure to a wide variety of computational and computer science concepts, students can program a story or game in Scratch, write a mobile application for Android, and learn about knowledge discovery and data mining, computer simulation, cybersecurity, GUI programming, web development, version control, and agile software development.