Clean dirty data with Data Prep from Versium
Friday, May 26, 2023 by Richard Harris
Research shows that bad data costs U.S. businesses more than $3 trillion per year dragging down the performance of marketing campaigns and ROI. Versium announced the launch of its new Data Prep product, a solution that empowers marketers to quickly fix massive amounts of data at scale so it can be deployed more effectively in all data-driven marketing activiti...
Moogsoft drives innovation with new features
Thursday, July 29, 2021 by Richard Harris
Moogsoft has announced new product features and improvements to speed up incident response and collaboration by further enhancing Moogsoft’s integration with PagerDuty; automatically adding context to users’ troubleshooting by prioritizing and automating event workflows while connecting multiple data catalogs containing rich contextual information; increase ...
Developers using Scribe get more tools to code faster
Thursday, July 6, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Scribe Software announced the general availability of the Developer Success Portal, designed to help developers do more with Scribe Online, its integration platform as a service (iPaaS). With the release, it offers a comprehensive resource that enables application and integration developers at enterprises, systems integrators, and SaaS providers to build applications th...
IBM Watson for cyber security has cognitive skills
Monday, February 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
According to IBM research, security teams sift through more than 200,000 security events per day on average, leading to over 20,000 hours per year wasted chasing false positives. The need to introduce cognitive technologies into security operations centers will be critical to keep up with the anticipated doubling of security incidents over the next five years and increa...
Insights into the Growing DatabaseasaService Industry
Monday, July 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
To learn more about how the growing Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) industry is impacting the application development community, we recently spoke with Will Shulman, CEO of mLab (formerly MongoLab), which provides a fully managed cloud database service headquartered in San Francisco. ADM: What do you see as the most important considerations for app developers when ch...
Android N Developer Preview 2 Includes New Vulkan 3D Rendering API
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Among the top new features of the recently released Android N Developer Preview 2 is Vulkan, a new 3D rendering API which Google helped to create as a member of the Khronos Group. Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile ...
AWS Woos Developers to Move from Parse to Amazon Simple Notification Service
Friday, February 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The folks at AWS never miss a beat (why should they?) and now they are working to convince Parse developers to move to the Amazon Simple Notification Service. Since Parse announced it was shutting down, a number of companies are maneuvering to fill the space for the 100’s of thousands of app developers using Parse who are scrambling to find alternatives.As AWS points ou...
Google Releases New Android People API
Thursday, February 11, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Google Android dev team has release a new People API that allows Android developers to retrieve data about an authenticated user’s connections from their Contacts. Prior to the new API, developers had to make multiple calls to the Google+ API for user profiles and the Contacts API for contacts. The new People API uses the newest protocols and technologies and will e...
Insight Into What the Facebook Announcement About Shutting Down Parse Really Means
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Matthew Baier, COO of Built.io, reached out to us to discuss his thoughts into the recent announcement by Facebook that they are shutting down the Parse development platform. Matthew has 15 years of experience launching and growing a wide range of successful products at Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Salesforce. He co-founded KurbKarma, a TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 Startup B...
Facebook Is Shuttering the Parse App Development Platform
Monday, February 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Facebook’s Parse development platform will be fully retired after a year-long period ending on January 28, 2017, according to an announcement on the Parse blog. The company is providing a migration tool to take data from Parse apps and move it to another MongoDB database platform. Parse is also open sourcing the Parse server.Here is a portion of the Parse announcement, ...
New Parse Dashboard Improves Functionality for Developers
Saturday, December 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Parse has completely overhauled and have launched in beta the new Parse Dashboard. The Parse team reports this is a complete rebuilt from the ground up with the addition of tools such as React and Webpack to improve its developer audiences’ workflow experience.The team picked React as a starting point for the new dashboard based on the tool’s focus on simple components ...
Mobilize.Net's Silverlight Bridge for Universal Windows Platform is Now Generally Available
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Mobilize.Net Silverlight Bridge has been released for general availability. The tool significantly reduces the work involved to transform Windows Silverlight Phone 8.x code to the new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and is offered as a free add-on for Visual Studio.The Silverlight Bridge automates a big part of the conversion process from Windows Phone 8.x code to ...
Facebook Announces New Parse SDKs for the Internet of Things (IoT)
Friday, September 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
With the expansion of the Parse for IoT SDK line, developers can build more connected devices with Parse, using new dedicated SDKs for Atmel, Broadcom, Intel and TI hardware which allow the Parse cloud to handle the entire backend.Developers can now build apps for Atmel's SAM D21 + WINC1500, TI's CC3200, Intel's Edison or Broadcom's WICED and connect to the Parse cloud....
The Parse SDK Is Now Open Source
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Facebook’s Parse has announced that it is open sourcing all of its SDKs, with iOS, OS X, and Android SDKs available now, and other SDKs to be open sourced in the near future.In addition to open sourcing their SDKs, Parse is also opening up its developer support flow. The new SDK support flow utilizes GitHub Issues, where developers can interact directly with Parse and o...
SVG Is the Future of Graphics and Here's Why
Friday, June 19, 2015 by Simon Wieczner
The enterprise is growing increasingly digital, with data visualization and GIS mapping just a few of the current drivers. In this environment, it’s more important than ever that companies have the ability to interact with images without loss of clarity or resolution issues. Scalable vector graphics, or SVG, coupled with an HTML5 document viewer, are critical to support...
Breaking News: Pigeons Run Amuck at Parse Office Complex
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
We’re starting to get reports in concerning an unfortunate incident at the Parce offices located in the Facebook Menlo Park, California office complex. Earlier today, in an effort to expand Parce’s reach within the developer community, it introduced a new service to take on Amazon’s drone delivery service with a new Parce “Pigeon” service, an initiative to deliver ...
Facebook Releases Marketing and Monetization Goodies for App Developers at F8
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
At the kickoff of its F8 developer conference, Facebook announced a broad number of products and tools to help developers build, grow, and monetize mobile apps.In attendance were more than 2,500 developers. Facebook announced that its developer community has doubled in size, and there are now hundreds of thousands of developers working with Facebook around the world wit...
Xojo Adds 64 Bit Support for iOS
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
It's going to become the norm across most platforms to build a 64-bit app for submission. Overall the only things developers will have to worry about is making sure they have the 64-bit "switch" flipped, and whether or not the platform they are using to build apps with supports building for 64-bit app files.Xojo, Inc today announced the availability of Xojo 2015 Release...
The Mobile Developer’s Dilemma: Do It Yourself Storage or Surrender Your Data
Thursday, January 29, 2015 by Brian Taptich
With more than 1,600 new apps debuting daily and almost three million fee-based applications currently available in leading app stores, it’s clear that the mobile app economy has exploded. The staggering success of app-based services such as Uber Technologies and Snapchat are prime examples of the massive opportunity mobile app developers have to build an industry-disru...
Parse Launches Mobile App Crash Reporting and Local Datastore for iOS
Monday, December 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Parse has recently introduced two new products: Crash Reporting for iOS and Android, and Local Datastore for iOS.Parse Crash Reporting provides the ability to register, track, and resolve crashes in apps. The Parse team notes that there are a number of third-party crash reporting tools available but say their crash reporting platform is a way to reduce the complex...
Parse Now Offers Push Experiments to Allow App Developers the Ability to AB Test Push Notification Marketing Campaigns
Friday, November 7, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Parse is launching Push Experiments, a new feature to help developers evaluate push messaging ideas to create the most effective notifications for an app. With Parse Push Experiments, developers can conduct A/B tests for push campaigns, then use the app’s realtime Parse Analytics data to help decide on the best variant to send.For each push campaign sent through the Par...
New Version of the Parse SDK for iOS 8 For Apple Devs
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Parse had released a new version of the Parse SDK for iOS with support for iOS 8 as well as a number of other performance and security improvements.Parse has updated its SDK to make sure it runs smoothly on iOS 8 and benefits from all the new APIs available. This includes updating how [PFGeoPoint geoPointForCurrentLocationInBackground:] works to be smarter abo...
The Tug of War Between Responsive and Native Design
Friday, September 19, 2014 by Sawyer Bateman
Let me start by saying there will always be tension between native and responsive design. As long as native operating systems are pushing the bounds of what's possible on a specific device, there will be responsive apps trying to keep up with that functionality. However, deciding what's best for your business or project isn't so simple as picking the best technology.&nb...
Parse Releases PHP SDK Offering a Company First for Server Side Language
Monday, August 11, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Parse has released the Parse PHP SDK, which will enable Parse integration for a whole new class of apps and different use cases. This is the company’s first SDK for a server-side language and the first to be truly open-source.Before the new SDK, if a developer wanted to access Parse from PHP, the REST API was the only option. Now everything needed to build PHP...
Develop Apps for Any Device and Any Platform With AppMethod's New Platform
Saturday, June 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero has introduced its latest release of Appmethod which allows developers to use C++ to create apps for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS X. This release of Appmethod now includes a "Free Forever" subscription plan that C++ developers can use to create Android apps to be published on any public app store (e.g., Amazon App Store and Google Play). ...
Facebook’s FbStart App Marketing Program Now Open to All Developers
Saturday, May 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Facebook has announced that it has opened its FbStart program to all iOS and Android developers. Prior to this week, only developers who attended Facebook’s f8 developer conference could apply to the program. Now the application process for FbStart is open to any iOS or Android developer with an app that’s been live for at least 30 days. If selected, deve...
Facebook’s New FBStart Program Provides App and Game Developers With Free Third Party Services including Parse, Adobe, Appurify and Proto.io
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
With the new FBStart Program developers can now receive free tools and services worth up to $30,000 from Facebook and 11 other companies to help get their business up and running or take it to the next stage of growth. App developers can apply to participate in FbStart, and if selected, will receive credits for Facebook advertising and Parse, plus free services fro...
Zend Launches Apigility 1.0 Interface for Building and Maintaining APIs
Monday, May 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Zend has announced the general availability of Apigility 1.0, a simple, standard interface for building and maintaining APIs. Apigility eliminates the challenges traditionally associated with designing and implementing APIs, while simplifying support for advanced API traits such as versioning, validation, error handling, documentation and more.As the company p...
Parse Local Datastore Lets Developers Take Apps Offline
Friday, May 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
The new Parse Local Datastore is an updated feature in the Parse Android SDK that lets developers to take an app offline with just a few simple lines of code. ParseObject#pin() adds ParseObjects to the Local Datastore and ParseObject#unpin() removes them. Once pinned, they can be accessed anytime with a normal ParseQuery.Pinned ParseObjects will remain accessi...
Embarcadero RAD Studio XE6 Provides C++ Visual Development Environment for Android
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero Technologies is now offering RAD Studio XE6, a multi-device, natively compiled app development platform for Windows, Android, iOS and Mac.RAD Studio XE6 introduces a C++ visual development environment for Android apps, enabling developers to modernize their Windows applications with VCL enhancements and expansion to mobile, and facilitates the crea...
f8 Facebook Developer Conference is Two Weeks Away
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
f8 2014, the official developer conference, is April 30 at The Concourse in San Francisco and will feature discussions from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as well as developers from Instagram and Parse. If you’re in the San Francisco area you can sign up to attend the event and if you won’t be in town you can experience the event through live streaming. M...
Facebook F8 Conference to be Held on April 30: You Can Bet App Marketing Will Be Front and Forward
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Facebook will host its F8 2014 conference at The Concourse in San Francisco on April 30. Engineers from Facebook, Parse and Instagram will share what they have learned and where they are headed. The promise to “dig into details to help you build faster, to reach more customers and to earn more with your apps.” The schedule includes keynotes from...
Parse Announces New App User Analytics
Monday, March 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The folks at Parse have added two new components to their analytics platform: Data Analytics and Performance Analytics.On Parse developers can manage their collection in Parse’s Data Browser however if could be unclear how a collection grows over time. In the past, developers could see growth by manually filtering API requests on a particular class. With the new an...
Parse Introduces Bolts! An Open Source Library Making Building Apps Even Easier!
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Bolts is a collection of open-source, low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier. The first components of Bolts is "Tasks", which makes it easier to write asynchronous code. Using Bolts does not require using any Parse or Facebook services, nor does it require having a Parse or Facebook developer account. Simply download the jar or framework file...
