COBOL at 60
Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
Micro Focus commenced its COBOL60 activities, celebrating the continued relevance of information technology’s most enduring business language. Known for its innovation, portability, readability, and business-centricity, COBOL has continually expanded and adapted to support new technologies and business demands.
COBOL at 60
Created in 1959 as a U.S Department...
Qt 5.8 released one framework to rule them all
Monday, January 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
Qt 5.8 has been released and is available for download from qt.io. Qt 5.8 does of course come with Qt Creator 4.2.1 and an update to Qt for Device Creation. Qt 5.8 is a rather large release, containing quite a large set of new functionality.The highlights of the release include:Qt LiteOne of the main themes of Qt 5.8 has been to make Qt more flexible and easie...
NVIDIA Releases JetPack 2.3 Into the Wild
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA has announced its latest comprehensive SDK for the world’s most advanced system for embedded visual computing, NVIDIA Jetson TX1. Free for download, NVIDIA JetPack 2.3 builds on the already accessible and high performing platform for deep learning, adding 2x the speed and efficiency. Not only does the SDK come with improved system software, tools, optim...
Embarcadero Releases New C++ Compiler for Windows
Monday, July 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero Technologies has released its latest C++ compiler for Windows which supports developers with a modern, Clang-based tool for Windows. The compiler allows developers to develop software directly with the tool, add support to libraries or test code and find bugs that are only visible when using multiple compilers. The C++ compiler is the foundation and cor...
Embarcadero Technologies Releases Updates to Cross Platform Coding Platforms
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has released the 10.1 versions of RAD Studio, C++Builder and Delphi. The updated products, referred to as “10.1 Berlin,” offer new capabilities including Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity improvements and new, multi-device preview options.In March, Embarcadero announced its strategy to focus product and engineering resources exclusively on t...
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...
NGINX Offers New JavaScript Virtual Machine
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
NGINX has announced the preview release of nginScript, a new JavaScript Virtual Machine (VM) that combines JavaScript with the NGINX web server platform to offer scripting capabilities to enable dynamic application delivery.The release of nginScript gives developers a new way to use the NGINX platform to help craft the user experience and shaping the interactions betwee...
Embarcadero RAD Studio 10 Extends Windows 10 to OS X, Mobile, and IoT
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero Technologies has released Embarcadero RAD Studio 10 Seattle, the latest version of its rapid application development platform for Windows 10, OS X, Mobile, and Internet of Things (IoT). RAD Studio 10 offers new functionality, allowing C++ and Delphi developers to extend their existing applications and infrastructure to Windows 10, plus OS X and Mobile. ...
IncrediBuild Releases Acceleration Solutions For Linux and Android
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
IncrediBuild has released IncrediBuild for Linux and Android which allows developers to visualize their build process with no vendor lock-in or need to change their development toolchain or workflow.This solution helps developers streamline development cycles by running development processes in a distributed fashion. IncrediBuild uses a “Docker-like” distributed contain...
Embarcadero Releases Major Updates for Its RAD Studio XE8 Connected App Platform
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has released a major update to its RAD Studio XE8 connected app platform. Included in this new release is the ability for Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to leverage their Windows VCL applications and build expanded, innovative solutions for mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT).RAD Studio XE8 delivers connectivi...
Apple Releases Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3 Beta
Monday, February 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has released Swift 1.2 as part of Xcode 6.3 beta. The Swift team comments that this beta release includes a significantly enhanced Swift compiler, as well as new features in the Swift language itself.On the compiler improvements front, the Swift 1.2 compiler was engineered to be more stable and to improve performance. These changes also provide a better experience...
Intel Releases New INDI Toolkit for Android and Windows Mobile Cross Platform Development
Monday, October 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Intel has released the Intel Integrated Native Developer Experience 2015 toolkit (Intel INDE) which is a cross-platform productivity suite that provides developers with tools, support, integration and updates to create C++/Java applications for Android and Windows applications on ARM and Intel architectureBundled within Intel INDE are tools to facilitate the application...
Cross Platform Development Tool Mono Offers Updates
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to create cross platform applications. Sponsored by Xamarin, Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime. The release of Mono 3.6 offers a number of enhancements and bug fixes. These include improvements in the debugger...
New Marmalade Juice Recompiles iOS Projects Natively for Android
Friday, March 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Marmalade has announced the release of Marmalade Juice which recompiles iOS projects natively for Android. The tool comes as standard with all Marmalade licenses including Community.Marmalade Juice lets developers using Xcode, Objective-C and all the iOS APIs to deploy to Android including the Google Play or Amazon App Store. The iOS app will be recompiled to ...
Android Developers Get New Ways to Access Intel’s XDK with New Intel Android Developer Zone
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
One of the sweetest exhibits we visited at Apps World last week was the Intel developer zone where the full suite of Intel’s developer offerings were on display. They’ve put some real muscle and thought behind mobile and are emerging as a serious player in the mobile sphere.And while it seems that the full Intel Developer Zone team was working the crowd last w...
Coverity Releases New Version of Enterprise Development Testing Platform
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 by Richard Harris
Coverity has announced the availability of the Coverity Development Testing Platform 7.0, the next-generation of its software testing platform.The platform enables testing for cloud, mobile and web-based application development in Enterprise IT organizations. The new version of the Coverity Development Testing Platform is an enterprise-scale solution which combines...
Google Helps App Developers With New Gaming Tools
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 by Richard Harris
Google has responded to the push for more and easier gaming development tools with the several new assitions including open sourcing of a 2D physics library and new features to the Google Play game services offering, such as a plug-in for Unity.
The open-source release of LiquidFun offers a new C++ 2D physics library that makes it easier for developers to add rea...
Intel Releases C++ Compiler v13.0 for Android App Developers
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 by Richard Harris
Intel’s latest release of its C++ Compiler is being promoted as a way to soup up performance for Android apps running on Intel processers. App developers can use this release of the compiler on a Linux-based development system and then install the developed application on an Android device or publish it to the Google Play store.
While the compiler produces code that r...
HOW TO Add a Custom Compiler to Xcode 4
Thursday, December 6, 2012 by Richard Harris
If you have the need to add a custom compiler to your Xcode environment, we think we found a solution just for you. In a how-to article over at Hammad Mazhar's website, he walks you through the detailed steps in creating your own custom compiler – and how to get it to play nice with Xcode....
