CDC Connect Partner Program from Equalum
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Equalum announced the CDC Connect Partner Program. The new OEM/integration program is open to batch-oriented data integration vendors, application integration companies, and other solution providers requiring a more flexible, high-performance CDC technology to identify and track downstream data. With Equalum’s award-winning CDC platform, partners have the opportun...
Unified Analytics launches from BigPanda Inc
Friday, June 24, 2022 by Richard Harris
BigPanda, Inc. has launched Unified Analytics, a revamped feature that gives IT Ops teams new self-service analytic capabilities to create new and highly interactive dashboards and reports from complex IT Ops alert data. BigPanda is the only AIOps platform that also delivers a complete library of ready-to-use operational and value dashboards that allow users to rapidly ...
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...
Digital transformation training program
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 by Austin Harris
New computer-based training program from Gruver and Farley teaches software organizations how to address their own unique challenges instead of copying what others have done.
Engineering the Digital transformation training and certification program
Gary Gruver, author, and president of Gruver Consulting announced the "Engineering the Digital Transformation Tr...
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...
Sonatype implements Applitools to ensure app quality
Friday, March 12, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Sonatype was in search of a solution to prevent visual bugs across the variety of operating systems and browsers supported by the Nexus platform.
After implementing Applitools, the engineering team can solely focus on delivering value, while Applitools uncovers countless unexpected changes before code ever leaves development.
Moving forward, Sonatype will deploy a...
Ray 1.0 announced from Anyscale
Thursday, October 1, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Anyscale announced Ray 1.0, the latest version of the Ray open source project. Ray 1.0, which provides a universal serverless compute API and an expanded ecosystem of libraries, was shared with attendees at the first annual Ray Summit, along with the announcement of the private beta of Anyscale’s managed Ray platform.
With Ray 1.0, developers can build scalable...
Linux and LISH release census for open source security
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), announced the release of ‘Vulnerabilities in the Core,’ a Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software.
This Census II analysis and report represent important steps towards understanding and addressing structural and s...
New outsourced app development service launches
Friday, January 31, 2020 by Richard Harris
System Soft Technologies (SSTech) announced the formal launch of an application development outsourcing service to help SMBs drive the innovation required to meet the demands of digital transformation.
The AppSimpleTM service successfully offered in beta in 2019, supplements and enhances the design, test, and deployment skills and experience of SMBs’ in-house t...
.NET Core 3.0 is here
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is included and focused on relaxing syntax and targeting .NET ...
Lightning Web Components goes open source
Monday, June 10, 2019 by Austin Harris
Salesforce has announced it has open sourced Lightning Web Components, the company’s JavaScript framework that makes it easy for millions of developers to build apps on the Lightning Platform. With this update, developers everywhere are now empowered to build fast, secure and portable web components on the development stack of their choice. Salesforce will showc...
Angular 7 highlights, improvements, and gotchas
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
Google recently announced its new Angular 7, which has been noted as a major release spanning the entire platform, including the core framework, Angular Material, and the CLI with synchronized major versions. These benefits along with more, such as CDK virtual scrolling capabilities and drag & drop feature, have developers excited to dive in. Carl Bergenhem, a Produ...
The AWS DeepLens has machine learning built in and you can now buy one
Monday, July 9, 2018 by Richard Harris
The Amazon DeepLens was first unveiled at re:Invent 2017, remember it's the camera device enables developers to deploy models that can identify objects it sees using popular deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow and Caffe. Amazon has just revealed that developers can now purchase the DeepLens for themselves, and that the AWS De...
Global hackathon launched by Colony to give out $25K in prizes
Monday, June 4, 2018 by Austin Harris
Colony has launched a global hackathon to coincide with the release of the colonyJS JavaScript library. Supported by the Colony team, participants will gain first use of the new tools, with submissions judged between 25th–28th June by a panel of 16 expert judges including Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation, Ryan Selkis of Messari, and Taylor Monahan of MyCrypt...
App development strategies from Swish's CTO Jeff Whelpley
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
Deciding on how to get your idea to the mobile market can be a long journey. Things like building your own infrastructure vs. a managed services approach, and leveraging open source technologies to keep dev costs down are just a few of the things to consider.We had a recent discussion with the CTO of Swish (a budgeting app founded by the guys who did Get Human) on mobil...
How to choose an Android HTTP Library
Monday, June 5, 2017 by Leanid Vovk
Today almost every Android app uses HTTP/HTTPS requests as the main transport for transferring data. Even if you're not using HTTP directly, you may be using multiple SDKs that rely on HTTP for networking, such as analytics, crash reporting and ads. So it’s fair to say that HTTP is the ubiquitous, and perhaps even obvious, choice for data transfers. But choosing HTTP in...
VRTrek Library to help developers reduce VR latency
Thursday, December 22, 2016 by Austin Harris
Latency is one of the biggest challenges in the burgeoning Virtual Reality (VR) industry. While wearing a VR Head Mounted Display (HMD), people notice even the smallest of delays between what's displayed at the screen and what the brain expects. Until now, there has not been a professional latency measurement tool that works across different HMDs and applications.Basema...
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...
Report Indicates Data Breaches Continue Across Industries in Q2 2016
Friday, July 15, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Edgile has released its Q2CY16 GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) Content report that provides regulatory updates across a range of industries and examines significant data breaches in Q2. This report information about new laws and regulations affecting them, covering PCI DSS, GLBA, HIPAA and more, to protect against cyberattacks. The report indicates that Rans...
Release of Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0 Supports Agile Development
Monday, May 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Qlik has announced the availability of its Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0 business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform. With this latest release, Qlik has improved its Agile management and administration capabilities to support IT with more effective auditing, configuration, and governance for multi-geography deployments. New user interface enhancements in the Qlik Mana...
Inversoft CEO Brian Pontarelli Discusses New Passport SSO User Management Platform
Friday, December 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Inversoft CEO Brian Pontarelli to talk about his company’s new Passport single sign on (SSO) user management solution that goes beyond standard single sign-on to support messaging in the user’s localized language, built-in analytics, and the ability to discipline/reward users (e.g. mute, ban, suspend, reward) based on activity.Brian is the found...
Ionic Launches New Version of its HTML5 App Creator
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
It’s been a little over a year since Ionic launched the alpha of its open source Ionic Creator platform which provides an HTML5 SDK to build cross platform, native-feeling mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The company has recently released a number of updates to the platform adding new features, polishing existing ones, and fixing issues...
5 Things for Developers to Know About iOS 9
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 by Basil Shikin
With the release of iOS 9 just around the corner, it’s crucial that app developers be proactive about what the release means for security, understand what will now be possible in terms of app thinning, and make the most of other improvements that will enhance user experience and/or increase user engagement. Here’s what I think are the most important things about iO...
Amazon Web Services Releases Version 3 of the AWS SDK for .NET
Monday, August 3, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released Version 3 of the AWS SDK for .NET. Version 3 is a new, modularized SDK and every service is a separate assembly and is distributed as a separate NuGet package. Each service has a dependency on a common runtime - AWSSDK.Core. This design gives SDK users better control when to upgrading to the newest service updates.The AWS team...
Debenu Quick PDF Library SDK Now Available for Android and iOS Apps
Thursday, July 9, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Debenu has released an updated version of its Quick PDF Library developer product with new iOS and Android support. This latest version also adds new functions, fixes several bugs and features a range of enhancements to existing functionality. With the new release Debenu now supports its PDF development SDK for generating and manipulating PDF files on Windows, Mac, iOS ...
Google Releases Version 1.0 of Polymer Library for Building Web Applications
Monday, June 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Google has released the 1.0 version of the Polymer library, offering what the company says is a new way of thinking about building web applications offering a sugaring layer on top of Web Components, making it easy for developers to create interoperable custom elements. These elements can then be put together to create app-like immersive experiences on the web.The platf...
Lots of App Development Goodies Announced at Google I-O 2015 Including Android M Developer Preview
Friday, May 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
A number of new initiatives were announced at the keynote of the 8th annual Google I/O conference as more than 5,600 developers looked on at Moscone Center. The event also was viewed by over 530 I/O Extended communities around the world and millions via the I/O Live stream. During the keynote, Google made a number of announcements that covered the evolution of the ...
Top 5 Tips for RESTful APIs and Closing the Loop on OAuth2.0
Friday, May 8, 2015 by Brian Alexakis
Many of the devices and gadgets that comprise the Internet of Things require that end users sync data to cloud services via a 1st party app. End user data is then exposed to developers over a RESTful API from the hardware vendor cloud services. It is up to each vendor to implement the OAuth2 protocol and define their own RESTful API for their service and as such there i...
New Cross Platform Releases for Game Developers from Google’s Fun Propulsion Labs
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 by Richard Harris
Google’s Fun Propulsion Labs (FPL) has announced several new releases for game developers including an updated Pie Noon - Google’s open source Android TV game - with networked multi-screen action, and new libraries including the Pindrop audio library and the Motive animation system.With Pie Noon multi-screen action, FPL has used the NearbyConnections API from the most r...
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware Access
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware AccessRoboVM has released the first stable version of its coding platform which lets developers reuse Java language and tools skills to build iOS Apps using native UI’s and with full hardware access.RoboVM is setup as a platform with multiple components:- The ahead-of-time (AOT) compi...
Microsoft Releases Azure App Cloud Service to Build Web and Mobile Apps
Saturday, March 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released the Azure App Service, a new cloud service that enables developers to build web and mobile apps for any platform and device. App Service is an integrated solution by Microsoft to help developers streamline development while enabling integration with on-premises and SaaS systems.The Azure App Service brings together the capabilities from Azure Webs...
Moff Releases Wearables SDK for iOS App Development
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Moff, a startup creating a wearable smart toy band, has announced the introduction of the Moff Software Development Kit (SDK). The Moff SDK will provide iOS app developers with access to Moff’s proprietary motion and position recognition library. In addition, the Moff SDK delivers access to Moff’s Bluetooth connection manager software. The Moff SDK for iOS gives ap...
Apple Watch Programming Guide Offers Tips on Leveraging This Year's Hottest Wearable
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
A look into the Apple Watch Programming Guide, which provides a “preliminary” overview, tells you all you need to know when taking a developer-centric look at Apple’s upcoming wearable as they say: Rather than pull an iPhone out of a pocket, a user can glance at Apple Watch and get important information quickly. Apps written for Apple Watch support these brief interacti...
Preview of Xamarin.Insights Provides Real time App Monitoring System
Friday, October 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Xamarin had released the preview for Xamarin.Insights, a real-time monitoring system that will help developers identify, report, and track issues that are impacting users with a single API.Developers can add Insights into an application with a single line of code providing the ability to gather and report any uncaught native or managed exceptions. In addition, developer...
Leadbolt's New SDK Version 5.0 is Optimized for iOS 8
Friday, September 26, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The release of iOS 8 with its new features and enhancements brings several new opportunities and some new code level changes for iOS App developers. Leadbolt’s new SDK version 5.0 has been optimized to take advantage of these changes in iOS 8 to help developers maximize their opportunities through the Leadbolt app discovery and monetization platformWhen designing apps a...
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