TRON HTX DAO Hong Kong Meetup 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
On April 9, the TRON x HTX DAO: Hong Kong Meetup 2024 event, hosted by TRON and co-organized by HTX DAO, took place in Hong Kong with great success. This bustling event brought together the brightest minds of the HTX DAO ecosystem: project leaders, committee members, and influential KOLs. Their energy was palpable as they delivered speeches delving into the future of HT...
Safer Bitcoin alternative launched from DLC.Link
Monday, April 15, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
DLC.Link has launched its key offering, dlcBTC. The dlcBTC token is a safer wrapped Bitcoin alternative, utilizing Discreet Log Contracts (DLC), a Bitcoin scaling technology enabled in Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade two years ago. dlcBTC represents a significant advancement in decentralized finance (DeFi), allowing users to seamlessly utilize Bitcoin across the Ethereu...
AlgoKit blockchain toolset adds native Python support
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
The Algorand Foundation announces the launch of AlgoKit 2.0, the latest upgrade to the AlgoKit command line interface (CLI) - a simple, one-stop toolset for developers building on the Algorand protocol. AlgoKit 2.0’s native support for Python empowers developers to write Algorand apps in regular Python. The toolkit has also been internally re-a...
Data movement simplified from Equalum and Yellowbrick
Monday, December 19, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Equalum announced a strategic partnership with Yellowbrick Data. The partnership leveraging the Equalum platform enables a more simple, efficient, and higher-performance migration of data from legacy environments to the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse hosted in the user’s preferred commercial cloud environment.
Announced during the 2022 AWS Summit in San Francisco, ...
Frontend development trends for 2022
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 by Richard Harris
Marcin Gajda, frontend team manager at The Software House, has over a decade of experience in different fields of web development and a handful of delivered products. He aims to make other developers write better code and strive to always find the best solution. Gajda shared with us, all of the key insights from the State of Frontend report, including the scop...
Voice Technology predictions for 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Joe Hagan, Chief Product Officer, is responsible for the LumenVox product portfolio. For more than 20 years, Joe has directed high-performing Product Management, Strategy, and Marketing teams across a diverse set of technology companies. Prior to joining LumenVox, Joe established the Product Management function and built out the marketing organization for CiBO Technolog...
Free AI solution for developers from Kythera AI
Thursday, August 26, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Kythera AI has begun publicly distributing its AI middleware as a Gem with the Linux Foundation’s new Open3D game engine (O3DE).
Free AI solution for developers from Kythera AI
Previously only available to commercial clients, Kythera AI will now distribute their toolset as a binary Gem packaged with O3DE, becoming the first middleware provider to make its ad...
Nureva toolkit to give developers access to cloud-based APIs
Thursday, February 4, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Nureva Inc. announces the Nureva Developer Toolkit to give developers secure access to a growing collection of cloud-based APIs for Nureva audio systems. Using APIs for device management and device control, third-party and in-house developers can easily access device information, update firmware and control settings. Customers can now automate daily routine tasks and le...
Game development and Live Ops are evolving
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 by Richard Harris
We recently caught up with Carbonated and AWS Game Tech to discuss how Carbonated’s custom-built, live ops platform Carbyne enables game developers to bring fresh content to players in real-time, without engineering support or an office-based workforce.
While Carbonated is a relatively small gaming studio, they have the tools to become a major player among the ...
Developers and digital transformation speed
Monday, November 23, 2020 by Richard Harris
We are living in challenging and unexpected times. COVID-19 transformed our professional and personal lives in a matter of days. There is a new standard for where we work, where we can go and how we interact with just about everyone. The rapid shift needed to cope with our new normal has fueled a departure from established initiatives, dramatically increasing the rate a...
Cross platform graphical toolkit from the Qt Company arrives
Monday, August 26, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
The Qt Company introduced Qt for MCUs to enable companies to create fluid user interfaces (UIs) on cost-effective microcontrollers (MCUs). The new offering leverages the existing tools and libraries from the widely used Qt for Device Creation, allowing companies to deliver better user experiences for displays powered by MCUs while reducing their hardware ...
Platform9 just filled a gap in the Kubernetes community
Monday, April 29, 2019 by Richard Harris
Platform9 announced Klusterkit – a set of three open source Kubernetes tools that enable organizations to easily deploy and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters in air-gapped, on-premises environments.
Each of the three tools comprising Klusterkit fills a gap in the Kubernetes community toolchain, and can be used independently or in tandem:
etcdadm &...
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2019
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Microsoft announced general availability for Visual Studio 2019 – offering innovative and intelligent solutions that increase developer productivity. With Visual Studio 2019, we’ve focused on what’s important to developers by adding numerous productivity improvements, enhanced collaboration, and faster tooling that bring the best experience to develope...
Telerik developer tools get many new .NET components
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 by Richard Harris
Progress announced the latest release Telerik tooling for .NET developers. With the new release, Progress now offers over twenty new Telerik components and expands the most popular components, including Grid and Charts. It also adds new themes including a Material inspired theme and a Mac inspired Crystal theme.
Progress has released new components including:
Web:...
Postgres support has been unvieled for Toad Edge
Thursday, June 21, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Quest Software unveiled the commercial release of Toad Edge 2.0, which adds support for Postgres. Toad Edge enables developers and database administrators to reduce the time and effort required to develop, manage and maintain Postgres-based open source databases while helping produce optimal performance.
A recent report estimates that more than 70% of new in-house ap...
Consensus algorithms and blockchain's future
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 by Fran Strajnar
The question of what’s next for cryptocurrencies and consensus algorithms is an interesting one - particularly lately, due in part to the negative press surrounding the Proof of Work (PoW) protocol and the amount of energy required to mine Bitcoin. However, the issue is not as clear-cut as it seems. There any many analysts, for example, who says the data used by Digicon...
Stateful data stream processing launches to GA
Monday, April 2, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
data Artisans announced the general availability of dA Platform - a stream processing platform that enables enterprises to get insights from data in milliseconds and power next-generation service-centric applications and business models. The new release productionizes stream processing and enables companies to provide live data applications as a centralized enterprise s...
New updates come to the Toad product family
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Quest Software has announced three new updates to the Toad product family, including Toad Edge v1.2, Toad Data Point v4.3 and Toad Intelligence Central v4.3. The new release of Toad Edge simplifies the development and management of next-generation open source database platforms, with added support for MariaDB and MySQL instances running on Microsoft Azure. Toad Data Poi...
Gamemaker 2 Studio now with Amazon app store support
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
GameMaker Studio 2 from YoYo Games has signed an agreement with Amazon to enable full support of the development and publishing of games on Amazon’s Appstore. GameMaker Studio 2 allows both experienced and novice videogame developers to create the games they imagine. Pushing the engine to support Amazon’s Appstore continues to open the toolset to anyone interested in ga...
Learning ARKit for the average iOS developer
Monday, November 6, 2017 by Angela Yu
Augmented Reality is not new and developers already have tools to create augmented reality (AR) apps. But with Apple’s brand-new ARKit, we’re going to see a massive shift in the landscape as this new framework simplifies the process of building AR experiences for iPhone and iPad. With ARKit in their arsenal, developers are presented with a golden opportunity a...
The impact of fast data on the modern application stack
Monday, October 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
Lightbend has announced its Fast Data Platform to help operationalize applications built for streaming data use cases. The new distribution aims to support how organizations design, build and run fast data applications, as new use cases like Real-Time Decisioning, Real-Time Personalization, IoT and others evolve the big data requirements from its legacy batch/Hadoop roo...
OfferCraft and Swinomish Casino launch new gamified campaigns
Friday, August 25, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
OfferCraft has teamed up with Swinomish Casino & Lodge in Anacortes, Washington, to launch weekly gamified offers that customers can play on their website, in email and via social media. And each week, the Swinomish Team offers a live look at each game on Facebook.The games, themed around a movie series, summer holidays and casino amenities and anniversaries, have b...
Quest launches Toad Edge toolset for MySQL
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
Quest Software, a global systems management and security software provider, has announced the availability of Toad Edge, a new commercial database toolset that makes it easy for development teams and database administrators (DBAs) to develop and manage next-generation open source database environments. With the first release supporting MySQL, Toad Edge saves time, minim...
Unreal Engine brings virtual character to life onstage
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Doors opened in London for The Royal Shakespeare Company’s bold new production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest in collaboration with The Imaginarium Studios and Intel. For the first time in history, a digital character driven by live motion capture performance will be featured onstage in a major classical production - and it’s all rendered in Unreal Engine, Epic Ga...
Red Hat Software Collections 2.3 and Developer Toolset 6 releases
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Software Collections 2.3 and Red Hat Developer Toolset 6, which provide a curated set of the latest, stable and open developer tools, languages and related technologies. Available on a separate lifecycle from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Software Collections and Red Hat Developer Toolset help bridge de...
ironSource Launches Ad Engagement Intelligence to Help Improve Engagement
Friday, September 23, 2016 by Richard Harris
ironSource has released a major feature for its Mediation Platform, adding ‘User-level Analytics’, advanced ‘Frequency Capping,’ and ‘Delivery Pacing’ tools to their Ad Placement Technology. Developers will now have the ability to see in-depth user-level ad engagement, and make optimal placement and pacing customizations to impro...
What OtherLevels Says Can Boost Engagement and Retention of Your Software
Thursday, September 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Marketers across virtually every industry in 2016 understand that multichannel messaging is important. But not all solutions are created equal... and neither are the needs of various sectors.The more closely a brand or platform interacts with its end user, the more targeted, intelligent, and data-driven the functionalities of its marketing solutions should be....
Katalon Studio Arrives With a Complete Test Automation Framework
Monday, September 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
IT services provider KMS Technology announced the release of Katalon Studio, a new automation toolset for web and mobile app testing. Katalon Studio revolutionizes the way software testers use Selenium and Appium with a complete test automation framework that allows testers to quickly setup, create, run, report, and maintain their automated tests. K...
Alteryx Analytics Platform Updates Help Big Data Analytics With Predictive Insights
Thursday, July 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Alteryx, has announced new functionality to its Alteryx Analytics platform that allows data analysts to gain predictive insights, harness big data analytic performance and improve analytic understanding using a code-free interface.The platform provides the ability connect to and cleanse data from data warehouses, cloud applications, spreadsheets and other sources, join ...
Tips to Use Penetration Testing to Protect Your Business From Cyber Attacks
Thursday, May 12, 2016 by Joaquín Rodríguez Varela
Forty-seven percent of all breaches were caused by malicious or criminal attacks according to the most recent global data breach study released by the Ponemon Institute. Resolving an attack cost businesses an average of $170 per record, translating to an average total cost of $3.79 million for a data breach.Today’s cybercriminals are getting smarter at finding and breac...
Making Application Testing a First Class Citizen of the Agile Age
Saturday, May 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
BlazeMeter recently announced new functionality to its application testing platform by adding technology that provides the ability to create load and performance tests as brief fragments of code in any text editor. Developers can run any combination of open source tools including Gatling, The Grinder, Locust, Selenium and JMeter tests in parallel through a single unifie...
DeltaDNA's New Service Aims to Help Drive Monetization in Low Player Games
Monday, March 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
deltaDNA just announced the release of SmartAds ‘On Demand’, a dynamic independent ad mediation and management platform developed specifically to drive monetization in games with low player numbers.Smaller games typically struggle from a lack of available performance data, which alongside the major time drain of managing multiple ad networks, makes the effective o...
Ceylon 1.2.2 Releases With Fixes and New Features
Saturday, March 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Ceylon, the modular, statically typed programming language for the Java and JavaScript virtual machines, just released version 1.2.2 with over 70 fixes and additional features.Some of the changes in the new release include: - Complete language specification that defines the syntax and semantics of Ceylon in language accessible to the professional devel...
Intelligent Communications Can Help DevOps Streamline Processes
Monday, March 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
We visited with Sendhil Jayachandran with xMatters to discuss how layering intelligent communications across an enterprise can help DevOps streamline processes. ADM: What is intelligent communications?Jayachandran: Intelligent Communications connects insights from any system to the people that matter in order to accelerate essential business processes. It integrate...
Apple Releases Open Source Swift Community at Swift.org
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has announced the availability of an open source Swift community, including the new Swift.org which is dedicated to open source Swift. The website hosts resources for developers that want to contribute to Swift, offer fixes, and interact with other developers.Swift.org allows any Apple developer to download the Swift code and in-development builds. More advanced d...
