.NET 9 set to release at .NET Conf 2024
Friday, February 16, 2024 by Richard Harris
The .NET community is embarking on another exciting annual release cycle with the much-anticipated arrival of .NET 9. Developers are urged to seamlessly transition their applications to the current .NET 8 version while setting their sights on the groundbreaking features that .NET 9 promises to unveil at the .NET Conf 2024, scheduled for the end of this year.
The prim...
Hackathon to award over 40k in prizes
Monday, November 11, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Applitools issued the “Visual AI Rockstar Hackathon” to identify and reward the top 100 functional and visual test engineers on the planet.
To enter, participants must write test automation scripts against a demo web app using two separate approaches: a traditional code-based testing approach using Selenium, WebdriverIO, or Cypress and an image-based test...
Adding HTTP-2 to Node.js progress report
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 by Richard Harris
The first documented version of HTTP was released in 1991, known as HTTP 0.9. This later led to the official introduction and recognition of HTTP 1.0 in 1996, but improvements and updates came swiftly in 1997 which stamped out HTTP 1.1. There hasn’t been a major update to the web protocol for over 15 years. As the web increases in complexity and usage, websites hav...
Providing inapp customer support help from Helpshift
Thursday, September 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
In today's hyper-competitive market, a developer must be sure to remove all potential friction points, which can irritate customers, or risk app extinction. Even the best of apps have seen this negative trend over a long period of time due directly to subjects like, customer support, scalability, and poor retention efforts.We had a chat with Abinash Tripathy, co-founder...
Application performance monitoring and cloud migration
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 by Nik Koutsoukos
The IT organization is becoming more and more strategic in helping companies reach their business goals. Companies are using technology as a means to not just expose new opportunities and tap into new markets but find ways to relate to their customer base and drive loyalty. As most of us are well aware, the primary choice for businesses today is to move as much of their...
Andrew LeCates from FileMaker discusses version 16
Tuesday, May 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
FileMaker, an Apple subsidiary that helps developers make custom apps, has recently released their platform's 16th iteration. The updates have enhanced previous versions with improvements that both professional and first-time developers can use to create, share, and run custom apps.Some of their new updates include a new Layout Objects window, scalability up to 500 simu...
Small business and mobile apps insight
Thursday, April 20, 2017 by Richard Harris
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are moving rapidly toward adopting mobile apps in 2017, according to new research from Clutch. They report that 42% of SMBs have built their own mobile app, and the survey indicates that SMBs increasingly view them as a worthwhile tool to improve business operations and return on investment.Two-thirds (67%) of SMBs surveyed said ...
HP Enterprise opens up about StormRunner Load and DevOps in the cloud
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
HP Enterprise recently announced the availability of HPE StormRunner Load on the AWS Marketplace. StormRunner Load is one of the first solutions to support SaaS Subscriptions on AWS Marketplace, and will help developers strengthen the quality and delivery of applications via a simple, intuitive and highly scalable platform.
In-short, it's a a cl...
Fedora 25 releases
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Fedora Project have announced the general availability of Fedora 25, the latest version of the free and open sourceFedora operating system. As with previous Fedora releases, Fedora 25 is available in three distinct editions: Fedora 25 Workstation, Fedora 25 Server and, replacing Fedora Cloud, Fedora 25 Atomic Host.Key new features and enhancements to Fedora 25 ...
Looking at the Future of .NET
Friday, August 12, 2016 by Ed Charbeneau
Exciting times lie ahead for .NET developers. Earlier this year during Build, Microsoft’s biggest developer event, clear roadmaps were given on the future of .NET and C#. Microsoft is re-positioning .NET to be a platform that can be written anywhere and run anywhere, which is a big departure from its long history of proprietary technologies.
Microsof...
Chef Releases New Open Source Application Automation Platform
Tuesday, June 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Chef has released a new open source project that introduces a unique approach for application automation. Applications packaged with Habitat have the intelligence to self-organize and self-configure making applications independent of underlying infrastructure. The platform provides the ability to run applications across increasingly diverse environments such as con...
New WalkMe Apps Platform Provide Applets for User Engagement and Monetization
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
WalkMe has announced the launch of WalkMe Apps, a new, free solution that allows app developers to focus their attention on the development of their core software by providing them with user and customer engagement tools – "applets" - to support upgrades, monetization, boost user experience, reduce uninstalls, and improve app ratings. Applets are standalone onboard...
The Challenge of User Experience
Thursday, April 28, 2016 by Joe Schulz
In the past year or so, user experience (UX) has been completely dominating the conversation around app development, pushing aside more traditional discussions. That’s not surprising, given user expectations - and the nature of mobile devices in particular. Yet, every day, thousands if not millions of users can’t complete tasks because they weren’t intuitive ...
How The Linux Foundation's ODPi Initiative is Advancing Apache Hadoop and Big Data
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
The ODPi initiative focuses on promoting and advancing the state of Apache Hadoop and Big Data technologies for the enterprise. It is a collaborative project of the Linux Foundation, which hosts a number of collaborative software projects and provide the organizational, promotional and technical infrastructure needed to make the projects successful.We recently visited w...
Security Cannot Keep Up with Application Release Cycles
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
A recent survey conducted by CloudPassage indicates that a lack of resources may be hindering the ability for companies to embed security in application release cycles stymieing their efforts to implement DevOps.According to the survey:- When asked the stage at which security is brought into software or product development release cycles, more than half of respondents (...
LinkedIn's New Project Voyager App Features Continuous Delivery on Steroids
Sunday, February 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
LinkedIn recently released Project Voyager, their codename for the new version of the company’s flagship application for Android, iOS, and the mobile web catering to its over 400 million users. According to the LinkedIn dev team, Voyager is the result of more than a year of product development work by over 250 engineers. They rethought the LinkedIn experience from the g...
As The Need for Mobile Increases So Will the Adoption of Node.js
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 by Mícheál Ó Foghlú
The work of early Node.js adopters has helped bring it into the mainstream. The benefits are clear: it enables developers to implement fast IT, driving more agile development practices and achieving high functionality at a quick pace. As many organizations work to rapidly develop apps while also responding to changes in the business - while simultaneously maintaini...
The Unsung Side Of Mobile Apps: Bootstrapping Development With Mobile Backend Services
Monday, December 7, 2015 by Mike Thompson
There’s more to a successful mobile app than a slick UI and cross-platform availability. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) makes developing compelling, full featured apps faster and easier.When building applications, every budding developer knows the temptation of fixating on the UI at the expense of algorithms, data structures and state management. After al...
Red Hat Updates Open Source Web Tools With Software Collections 2.1
Thursday, November 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has released Red Hat Software Collections 2.1 into general availability offering new functionality to the platform’s open source web development tools, dynamic languages and databases. Developers can expect a continuing more frequent release cycle of the Software Collections than with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Software Collections 2.1 features sever...
Node.js V4.0.0 Combines Node.js and io.js In a Single Codebase
Friday, September 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Node.js Foundation has released Node.js version 4.0.0 which combines both the Node.js project and io.js project in a single codebase under the direction of the Node.js Foundation.This latest Node.js version offers stability and security updates, a new test cluster, support for ARM processors and long-term support to provide the ability leveraging to run JavaScript p...
Insider’s View of a Real World Project and The Role of User Modeling in Performance Test Development
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Terri Calderone
Developing a composite application can be a complex and convoluted process, but when a company needs to test that system, the task is even more daunting. When development and testing teams operate with a mindset that favors siloed processes, the challenge increases.I was recently involved with a project where a resort management firm was attempting to migrate its antiqu...
5 Things To Consider When Monitoring Your App
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Amir Rozenberg
Mobile is explosive in nature. That being said, it has been shown more than once that across verticals, it’s very expensive to be naïve as to the expected user adoption when it comes to mobile applications. You quickly come to realize you need to understand the behavior of the application in production. Mobile monitoring is materially different from web monitoring,...
Why Saas and Continuous Delivery Is a Match Made in Heaven for Mobile Apps
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 by Steven G. Harris
In recent years, application usage has evolved and grown tremendously. Unlike core IT systems (ERP, HR, etc.) that are under the close scrutiny of corporate IT, Software as a Service (SaaS) and now mobile applications come with very different requirements. What’s valuable and efficient today might not be what’s valued tomorrow: SaaS and mobile applications have to const...
Simplifying Mobile Application Development with Continuous Delivery
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 by Steven G. Harris
In recent years, mobile application usage has evolved and grown tremendously. Unlike core IT systems (ERP, HR, etc.) that are under the close scrutiny of corporate IT, mobile applications come with very different requirements. What’s valuable and efficient today might not be what’s valued tomorrow: these more dynamic applications have to evolve constantly and adapt to u...
Learn the Recipe for Creating and Maintaining a Four and a Half Star Rated App
Thursday, May 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Keeping pace with the mobile market requires the ability to quickly deploy app releases allowing for continuous updates and improvements as the market evolves. It’s a recipe that includes a continuous integration approach throughout the development, testing and production phases which allows development teams to accelerate the release cycle.But as many developers and De...
Faster Release Cycles + Burgeoning Operating Systems = Mobile User Satisfaction Crisis
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
App quality might mean different things to different people, but in the end, the only people that really matter are the end users. It’s the same for enterprises and indie app developers alike, if your mobile offerings are not meeting the user’s expectations, bad things will happen.And the best code in the world can be bogged down by operating systems, devices/firmware, ...
Rust 0.8 Released
Friday, September 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language with a focus on safety, performance and concurrency. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Mozilla and the Rust community are pleased to announce version 0.8 of
the Rust compiler and tools.
This was another very active re...
