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CodeRabbit now available on Visual Studio Code

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 by Richard Harris

CodeRabbit is now available on the popular Visual Studio Code editor. The integration brings CodeRabbit’s AI code reviews directly into Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code at the earliest stages of software development—inside the code editor itself - at no cost to the developers. This new support enhances CodeRabbit’s multi-layered review approach: contin...

Microsoft Build 2025

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 by Richard Harris

Microsoft is set to host the much-anticipated Microsoft Build 2025 conference, featuring a comprehensive lineup of .NET and C# content designed to engage developers of all experience levels. The event, taking place both in-person in Seattle and virtually from May 19-22, 2025, will showcase the latest advancements and future directions of .NET technologies. Microsoft ...

Vibe Coding: Revolution or risk

Monday, May 5, 2025 by Richard Harris

A new buzzword has entered the software development lexicon: "AI Vibe Coding." Popularized in early 2025 by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to a coding approach where developers essentially "go with the flow" of AI code suggestions, providing only loose guidance or high-level vibes of what they want. In theory, you describe the feat...

Nutrient expands their cloud based services

Monday, April 28, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger

Nutrient has announced a significant expansion of its cloud-based services, as well as a series of updates to its SDK products, aimed at enhancing the developer experience by allowing developers to build, scale, and innovate with less friction. These new tools are designed to help developers streamline day-to-day workflows, leverage more deployment options, and deliver ...

Collaborative AI tools are reshaping software development

Thursday, April 10, 2025 by Richard Harris

Cory Hymel, Vice President of Innovation and Research at Crowdbotics, brings his extensive expertise in AI and software development to the forefront in this engaging Q&A. Hymel delves into the transformative impact of AI on the software development lifecycle, highlighting its influence on areas like code generation, requirements engineering, and context management. ...

KICK streaming launches public API and developer bounty program

Monday, March 31, 2025 by Richard Harris

KICK Dev is launching its most ambitious push yet to fuel innovation on its platform, starting with a $100,000 developer bounty challenge. This open call invites solo developers and teams alike to build brand-new apps that enhance the experience for KICK’s growing viewer base. With judging criteria focused on originality, scalability, and user experience—plu...

Automated code refactoring platform Moderne

Thursday, March 6, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

Moderne announced it has closed $30 million in Series B funding led by Acrew Capital with participation from Morgan Stanley, Amex Ventures, and TIAA Ventures, as well as all previous investors Allstate, Intel Capital, Mango Capital, and True Ventures. The funding is further validation that Moderne is emerging as the only company driving mass-scale code modernizatio...

App development predictions for 2025 from Kochava

Friday, December 20, 2024 by Richard Harris

As we approach 2025, app development is rapidly evolving. Technological advancements, changes in user expectations, and emerging global trends are redefining what it means to build, deploy, and use mobile and web applications. 2025 app development predictions from Amro Hassan at Kochava With groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence, connectivity, and...

Real time security software development from Symbiotic Security

Friday, November 22, 2024 by Richard Harris

Symbiotic Security launched a real-time security for software development that combines detection and remediation with just-in-time training – incorporating security testing and training directly into the development process without breaking developers’ workflows. Backed with $3 million of seed funding from investors including Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo C...

Github Spark introduces a tool for creating web apps using plain English

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

GitHub has announced a groundbreaking tool, GitHub Spark, designed to empower developers by enabling the creation of web applications through plain English instructions. This innovation marks a significant stride in the evolution of coding, as it allows users to describe the desired functionality of an app in natural language, and the tool translates these descriptions ...

DevOps threats report released from GitProtect io

Monday, August 12, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Outages, human errors, cyberattacks, data breaches, ransomware, security vulnerabilities, and, as a result, data loss are the reality that DevSecOps teams have to face...even every few days. The State of DevOps threats report - teams affected every few days GitProtect.io recently presented its studies on the most severe incidents affecting tools like GitHub...

Multi platform apps are becoming more popular

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Candy Crush Saga is one of the world’s most popular video games, with more than 5 billion downloads. That’s partly because gamers can play it anywhere. It offers versions for multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, and Windows: a practice known as multihoming. Smaller developers, however, often decide not to pursue multiple platforms because it&r...

Overcoming burnout in software QA with surfing

Friday, June 14, 2024 by Ramcham Floyd T. Gaid

Life has been changing and challenging as the future arises. Fear and anxiety is bringing risks to business owners, employees and to our families because of uncertainties of the future. With the technologies evolving rapidly with AI and the Cloud the Metaverse world becomes relevant in the near future. Life is supposed to be lived in happiness with a healthy lifestyle, ...

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...

DevOps World Backup Day

Monday, April 1, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

On Friday, March 31, we celebrate World Backup Day. The date is not accidental - it has been assumed that on April Fools’ Day, no one wants to discover that potential data loss wasn't a simple hoax. World Backup Day - best practices and pledge for DevOps On this day, cybersecurity specialists from around the world will come together to urge everyone to m...

Low code app development in 2024

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 by Richard Harris

Recently, low-code no-code app development tools have bridged a lot of gaps and enabled developers to overcome challenges that used to be complex or even unattainable. Some of the key areas these developer tools have made impacts in include automating code, natural language processing, image and video recognition capabilities, predictive analyti...

DJI releases new SDK versions

Wednesday, December 27, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

DJI has announced the release of the DJI PSDK V3.8、ESDK V1.1 and CloudAPI V1.8. This version of PSDK Supports Matrice 3D/3TD models PSDK download link：https://github.com/dji-sdk/Payload-SDK/tree/master This version of ESDK Supports the DJI Dock 2 ESDK download link：https://github.com/dji-sdk/Edge-SDK/tree/master This version of CloudAPI ...

Runtime code review from AppMap enhances productivity

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 by Richard Harris

AppMap has announced its innovative Runtime Code Review solution that will transform software quality and the developer experience. AppMap's mission is to deliver actionable insights to developers where they work, and AppMap continues to deliver on the promise with its latest release for the GitHub Marketplace. Unexpected runtime defects account fo...

Will AI solve developers productivity issues

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 by Richard Harris

To follow up on our previous survey about low-code and no-code tools, we decided to run another short survey about tools specifically for software developers, including, but not limited to, GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT. We’re interested in how "developer enablement" tools of all sorts are changing the workplace. Our survey showed that while these tool...

AI VS code extension from Metabob speeds up code review

Monday, May 15, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

Metabob announced a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual studio code (VSCode) extension for its debugging and refactoring tool that speeds software development code review by 60%. It provides users with useful context-sensitive code recommendations to fix errors right in the integrated development environment (IDE), and it is specifically trained to fix code...

AI changing how developers code and how companies hire developers

Monday, May 8, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

HackerRank released a new report on the state of AI-related coding skills and found that the nature of a developer's work is quickly evolving to keep up with advancements in Artificial Intelligence. As a result, how companies find, hire, and upskill developers must also change to match this emerging reality. HackerRank surveyed more than 42,000 global developers ...

Automated service to service access emerges from Otterize

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

Otterize, an open-source solution that's re-inventing how to connect services securely, to each other and to their infrastructures, today announced $11.5M in seed funding and publicly unveiled its new Otterize Cloud product, which is now in GA. The round was led by Index Ventures, followed by Dig Ventures, and Vine Ventures, with participation by Jibe Ventures, Crew...

Protein engineering using generative AI from Adaptyv Bio

Friday, April 14, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

AI tools like ChatGPT are revolutionizing how the world generates text, images, and code. In a similar way machine learning algorithms and generative AI are upending traditional processes in life sciences and collapsing time frames in drug discovery and materials development. AlphaFold by DeepMind is probably the most well-known machine learning model in this space. ...

Indie game dev platform The Mirror lands $2.3M in funding

Thursday, December 22, 2022 by Richard Harris

The Mirror has raised a $2.3M Pre-Seed Round led by Founders Fund. Participants in the round include early-stage investment firms Konvoy Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Florida Funders, and Palm Tree Crew. Founded in Miami, Florida, in 2022 by Jared McCluskey (CEO and CTO), The Mirror simplifies the complexities of game development into a single platform, providing indie g...

Microverse World Builder from Croquet

Monday, November 28, 2022 by Richard Harris

Croquet Corporation has announced the availability of Microverse World Builder, a browser-based development environment for the Open Metaverse that lets web and web3 developers rapidly create multi-user 3D Metaverse worlds that can be published to any web server, completely independent of proprietary platforms. Microverse World Builder includes the newest releas...

TDengine Cloud released to developers

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 by Richard Harris

TDengine released TDengine Cloud, a fully managed, open-source cloud time-series data platform. TDengine Cloud lets organizations easily start, operate, and scale the TDengine time-series data platform in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Released as open-source software in 2019, TDengine has more than 19,000 stars on GitHub and more than 154,000 instances across 50 coun...

JSON form widget lands from Appsmith

Monday, May 2, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

Appsmith announced the availability of its JSON Form Widget which saves developers huge amounts of time and makes it easier than ever to generate dynamic and static forms from data sets. For example, developers can create dynamic sign-up forms, making it possible to have both the 'sign-in' and 'sign-up' forms on the same page. Conditional sw...

ezeep JavaScript library lands from ThinPrint

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 by Richard Harris

ezeep by ThinPrint announced the release of ezeep.js, a new JavaScript library that makes it possible for web developers to easily add printing capabilities into any web application in just a few steps. "Desktop applications are being replaced by cloud-based web applications, and users are accessing them from all kinds of devices, smartphones...

$1M Graph technology challenge from TigerGraph

Thursday, February 10, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

TigerGraph, the provider of a graph analytics platform, announced the launch of "Graph for All Million Dollar Challenge", a global search for innovative ways to harness the power of graph technology and machine learning to solve real-world problems. The challenge brings together brilliant minds to build innovative solutions to better our future with one q...

SaaS company receives $27M in funding

Monday, November 15, 2021 by Austin Harris

Swimm announced a $27.6 million Series A funding round to enable engineering teams to create documentation that is always up to date. The round, which brings Swimm's total funding to $33.3 million, was led by New York-based global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with participation from Dawn Capital, alongside existing seed investors Pitango...

Protecting source code

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 by Nigel Thorpe

Earlier this year, EA (Electronic Arts), reported a cyberattack and the theft of some 780GB of source code for games such as FIFA 21 and the proprietary Frostbite game engine used for many other high-profile games such as Battlefield. The threat actors responsible for the EA data breach put the stolen data up for sale on an underground hacking forum for $28 million, pro...

Tech hiring surges in 2021

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Tech job postings increased 16% in the second quarter of 2021, with locations, occupations, skills, and employers across the country experiencing strong quarter-over-quarter growth, according to the Q2 2021 Tech Job Report from Dice, a DHI Group, Inc. brand (NYSE: DHX). Nationwide tech hiring surges in the second quarter of 2021 ...

ABBYY updates machine learning library

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

ABBYY announced a major update for NeoML, its cross-platform open-source machine learning library that allows developers to build, train and deploy machine learning models. The update adds support of the Python programming language, the most popular language for machine learning and AI. The framework also offers 5-10x speed improvements as well as 20+ new ML method...

Dev Interrupted Community launched by LinearB

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

LinearB, the team behind Software Delivery Intelligence, has launched the “Dev Interrupted” community, which consists of a Discord community, podcast, newsletter, and events. As an engineering leadership community with over 1,000 discord members, Dev Interrupted brings the most forward thinking minds together to establish the future of daily continuous impro...

Uptodown: An alternative to Google Play

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 by Richard Harris

The Uptodown app market has more than 130 million active users per month, and more than 450 monthly downloads of their more than 4 million APKs available. The company operates worldwide and it is localized to 15 different languages. The Spanish-based company was born in 2020 in Málaga and founded as a University Project in 2002. Recently we intervi...