Telerik and Kendo UI R3 updates from Progress
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 by Richard Harris
Progress the provider of application development and infrastructure software, recently announced the R3 2023 release of Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI, the
most powerful .NET and JavaScript UI libraries and tools for application development. From modernizing legacy projects to building new applications, this new release equips developers with the tool...
DevSecOps will go mainstream this year
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 by Richard Harris
Cybercriminals love Shadow Code exploits because hacking a commonly used library or service can place the malicious code on hundreds or thousands of websites. For example, the widely used jQuery JavaScript library has been breached multiple times, leading to digital skimming attacks broadly across the e-commerce sector. Adding jQuery to an application without ...
Javascript is timeless says Pluralsight
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
How important is JavaScript today compared to when it first launched?
Cory House
When JavaScript first launched it was unclear if it would take off. It was written in a few days, and initially only offered in a single browser. Microsoft's first browser shipped with its own flavor of JavaScript called JScript. Today, JavaScript makes the world go 'round. It r...
Top 10 developer technologies in 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019 by Richard Harris
Pluralsight, Inc. announced that it has expanded its Technology Index tool to address the most in-demand technologies for IT operations, information security, and data professionals in addition to the previously existing ranking of top in-demand software developer languages.
In-demand technologies according to Technology Index
Pluralsight's expanded ...
Kendo UI Web development toolkit lands from Progress
Friday, September 27, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Progress, the provider of application development and digital experience technologies, has announced the latest release of Progress Kendo UI, the most complete UI toolkit for web development. The release includes a series of new components for Angular, React and jQuery, as well as major enhancements for some of its most popular existing components. &...
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:...
New STO planning software emerges
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 by Stuart Parkerson
STOlogix has announced the launch of a new front-end software solution which streamlines the functionality of complex and disparate software applications required for STO planning. The new software solution, STOplanner, is being developed by KAP Project Services, a leading project controls and project services provider for the oil, gas and petrochemical industries.Accor...
Open source software turns 20
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
First let me say in full disclaimer that I love open source software and initiatives, and I come from the enterprise world as it where in 1998. The days where IT budgets were as fat as overfed guppy goldfish, and open source tech was barely used in production environments. Open source source software has always had the same set of challenges following closely behin...
Onsen UI for Vue lets developers create mobile apps in Vue style
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 by Richard Harris
Monaca, a HTML5 hybrid app development platform, announced its stable release of “Onsen UI for Vue”. Onsen UI is its open source UI framework for building hybrid mobile apps (Cordova/PhoneGap) and progressive web apps. Monaca released Onsen UI v2 in September 2016 with a significant architectural change. Onsen UI v2 has become a JavaScript framework independent, We...
Angular and VS 2017 support from Progress comes with new UI components
Thursday, February 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Release of Telerik DevCraft R1 2017 enhances offerings for modern web and mobile UI developmentProgress announced the latest release of the Progress Telerik DevCraft suite, a complete UI toolbox for web, mobile and desktop development. New capabilities support the latest programming frameworks and IDEs, including Angular, Visual Studio 2017, jQuery 3, ASP.NET Core and X...
Scanning JavaScript for vulnerabilities: How the impossible is now possible
Friday, January 13, 2017 by Matt Howard
Javascript is everywhere, and it's awesome! But the world most popular language can be riddled with problems if you aren't a careful programmer.There is a saying that speaks to the incredible popularity of JavaScript as a programming language and it goes like this: “any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.” The we...
Create a conversational UI for your app in a matter of hours
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
AI has become a crucial element in our consumer lives. Chatbots and voice-controlled Siri-like-Assistants are changing the way we interact with apps and even consume products and services. The enterprise market doesn’t want to lag behind and is looking to adopt more and more AI technology to improve its capabilities and efficiency. However, high costs and limited resour...
The JS Foundation forms to help javascript and servers play nicer together
Monday, October 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
StackPath just announced an official partnership with the Linux Foundation, to form the JS Foundation - an effort put in place to support technologies that complement JavaScript projects. StackPath’s involvement in this foundation results from its mission to integrate top security offerings into development practices. The JS Foundation is committed to helping ...
How Will Pokemon Go Change the Way Developers Build Apps
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 by Richard Harris
Guest Submission by TJ VanToll, developer advocate for Progress It seems like everyone is playing Pokémon Go, the Pokémon collecting application that took the world’s mobile devices by storm. While the gaming phenomenon is all the rage among individual users who have got to catch ‘em all, the app’s innovative combo of GPS and augmented reality (AR) technologie...
US Department of Commerce Opens Data Academy for DataDriven Decision Training
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 by Richard Harris
The US Department of Commerce is now offering the Commerce Data Academy to help educate and empower employees within the Department of Commerce to make data-driven decisions. The academy is tasked with enhancing the contribution of data to the economy by helping the 12 Bureaus of the U.S. Department of Commerce create and develop projects to advance the Department's mis...
SOASTA Mobile Testing Tools Now Available on IBM MobileFirst Platform
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SOASTA has announced that developers building mobile apps on the IBM MobileFirst Platform can now use mobile testing offerings from SOASTA.SOASTA’s Mobile Test Cloud and TouchTest solution’s can record and analyze the quality and performance of mobile applications against the latest mobile device and O/S combinations. Specific details of user interactions on the mobile ...
DreamFactory REST API Platform Now Available on Verizon Cloud
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
DreamFactory’s REST API platform is being combined with Verizon’s cloud services to deliver a cloud-first development environment to help developer's prototype, deploy and scale applications for mobile, web, and IoT. The new DreamFactory-Verizon Partner Solutions portal provides a way for developers to access RESTful API services hosted on IaaS, plus the portal fac...
The jQuery Foundation Releases New Mandates
Saturday, August 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
The jQuery Foundation Board of Directors recently met to revisit the organization’s overall mission to help improve the open web, making it accessible for everyone, through the development and support of open source software, and collaboration with the development community.The organization is represented by a number of industry companies including IBM, Wordpress and Fa...
Syncfusion Essential Studio 2015 Now Includes Javascript Playground
Friday, July 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
Syncfusion has released the latest version of Essential Studio 2015 which includes new controls and features, many impacting web and mobile development for JavaScript, Xamarin, and Windows Phone platforms.Included is Syncfusion JavaScript Playground, an IDE-like environment that can simplify creating and sharing code samples that use Syncfusion JavaScript components. In...
DevCon5 Will Delve Into HTML5 Concepts, Tools and Design in New York July 20 22
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
DevCon5 provides attendees with thought leadership on HTML5 concepts, tools and design best practices as well to provide insights into leveraging HTML5 to ensure a superior user experience through JavaScript frameworks, user metrics, responsive design, web services and more.The event will feature cross platform development experts and providing insight into the best app...
Famo.us and jQuery Foundation to host jQuery SF 2015 Conference June 22 and 23
Saturday, March 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
Famo.us and jQuery Foundation the will host the jQuery SF 2015 conference in San Francisco, California on June 22nd and 23rd at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco. The event will bring together developers, open source projects and thought leaders to talk about the current state of jQuery development.Tickets go on sale April 1 at 10am PST and the conference organizers...
Tiobe Proclaims JavaScript as the Top Programming Language of 2014
Thursday, January 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
Tiobe, which is specializes in assessing and tracking the quality of software, has announced JavaScript as the top programming language for 2014, based on its Programming Community Index. JavaScript was named the top language because it was the biggest mover in the Index for the year. As it Tiobe points out, the JavaScript programming language has a long histo...
Infragistics Updated Development Platform Features WYSIWYG Web based Page Designer Using HTML5 | jQuery Controls
Friday, October 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Infragistics has announced a number of upgrades with its new Infragistics Ultimate 14.2, which helps developers build Microsoft Office-inspired, touch-enabled business apps.The platform features the Infragistics Indigo Studio interactive prototyping tool which can generate standards-based HTML5 and JavaScript with Infragistics Ignite UI controls, which can be further re...
GrapeCity Updated Wijmo 5 Expands Line of HTML5 and JavaScript Products
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
GrapeCity Developer Tools has released its latest version of Wijmo 5 expanding GrapeCity's line of HTML5 and JavaScript products for enterprise app development. The Wijmo family offers JavaScript Controls (Wijmo 5), classic jQuery Widgets (Wijmo 3) and a spreadsheet component (SpreadJS)."Touch First, Mobile First, was our mantra when setting out to create a set of true ...
InterSystems Introduces Zen Mojo for Enterprise Mobile Web App Development
Sunday, July 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
InterSystems has announced Zen Mojo, a new technology for the development of Web-based apps for mobile and desktop environments. According to InterSystems, Zen Mojo was designed take advantage of the functionality and responsive user interfaces of mobile devices, when creating data-rich, enterprise-class Web apps. The open source plugin framework allows adopti...
LG Launches New webOS TV SDK Developer Site
Monday, July 14, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
LG has launched a new webOS TV Developer Site to provide a one-stop resource center for all developer requirements for webOS TV applications. Developers can learn how to plan, design, develop and publish webOS application for the LG Smart+ TV.About the New WebsiteDevelopers can download and install the webOS TV SDK and set up the development environment. The S...
KidoZen Announces HTML5 App Designer Platform
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
KidoZen has announced the release of its HTML5 App Designer, a visual drag-and-drop tool to build prototype and production-ready, cross-platform HTML5 applications. The HTML5 App Designer is a new feature enhancement to the KidoZen enterprise mobile platform. HTML5 App Designer offers jQuery support with the ability to choose from over 30 jQuery Mobile po...
DreamFactory Launches Updated MBaaS Services Platform for Mobile Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
DreamFactory has introduced DreamFactory 1.5, a MBaaS platform that allows developers to connect mobile apps with back-end services.The platform focuses on two areas. First, it lets developers securely connect mobile users with existing enterprise databases and control record-level data visibility. Second, it offers new scripting functionality to customize the...
Intel’s Updated App Framework 2.1 JavaScript Library for HTML5 Mobile App Development
Thursday, April 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Intel App Framework JavaScript library is a cross-platform UI library built for mobile HTML5 apps. The UI styles in this library are designed to adapt to a target platform (Google Android, Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows 8, and new RIM Blackberry devices) so apps can have a target-specific look and feel. The App Framework library also includes an optiona...
Sencha Space – Solving BYOD with Cross Platform Management to Build and Deploy Secure Mobile HTML5 Apps
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 by Nicholas Harlow
With more and more enterprises adopting BYOD policies, the challenge for IT departments has become how to manage personal and professional applications on the same device, making sure company information is secure without infringing upon personal privacy. The importance of this issue will only grow as mobility becomes an even greater fixture in the enterprise.At Sencha,...
Kii Introduces A|B Testing, Now Javascript SDK PhoneGap and Titanium Compatible
Saturday, March 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Kii has introduced new A/B Testing functionality which is included with all Kii accounts, including the free ones. Developers using Kii can run an experiment and then push the optimal result to all users with one click, without having to update an app.Kii A/B Testing supports multiple variables to provide the ability to test combinations around app experience,...
ShieldUI Updates Reportivo Reporting and Sharing Service for JavaScript and HTML5 UI Components
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
After their recent announcement of the addition of 12 new controls to their JavaScript and HTML5 UI components suite, ShieldUI is now in the final stages up updating its Reportivo online reporting and sharing service to utilize these controls.Reportivo.com is a free online service designed to help users analyze data and create insightful reports...
Genuitec Releases MyEclipse 2014 IDE for Java, Java EE and Mobile App Development
Friday, December 6, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Developers who want an integrated development environment to create enterprise apps for the cloud, as well as for desktop, web and mobile, can now take advantage of new enhancements to Genuitec’s MyEclipse platform.
MyEclipse 2014 now includes full specs for Java EE 7, enhanced REST Web Services for reverse engineering and mobilization, bundled JDK 1.7 suppor...
List of Completely Free Programming Books
Thursday, September 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Developers and programmers alike need resources, and if you are looking for a free way to dive into programming, I've got the source for you. Head on over to stackoverflow and check out this growing list of books online or offline that you can use to either get started with or sharpen your app development mastery.
Everything from C# essentials...
Updated Tools for Native iOS Apps from Infragistics
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Infragistics, a provider of UI components for native iOS, Android, and Windows, and cross-device HTML5/jQuery development, continues to add more power to its NucliOS toolset for native iOS apps.
The NucliOS core controls provide developers the ability to create high performance, highly visual, totally native iPad and iPhone apps including an advanced da...
