Software developer shortage remains top challenge in 2023
Monday, May 22, 2023 by Richard Harris
Even amidst recent layoffs in the tech industry, recruiting developers with the right skills remains the top challenge for 2023, according to the new Reveal survey of 2,228 software developers and IT professionals released by Infragistics. More than a third of respondents (37.5%) indicated that they would continue to have trouble finding skilled developers in 2023 with ...
API exploration tool SwaggerHub Explore launches from SmartBear
Thursday, March 16, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
SmartBear is giving developers instant access to RESTful and Apache Kafka endpoints with the new SwaggerHub Explore. The free API exploration tool has an easy-to-use interface and accelerates the development lifecycle, allowing developers to easily visualize API data in a single place and quickly evaluate functionality before investing valuable time in API integration. ...
Open Design Challenge launches to develop fitness app for US Airforce
Friday, August 3, 2018 by Richard Harris
AF CyberWorx is launching its first-ever open design challenge. The online competition is designed to allow people to join from across the nation, bringing together a greater mix of participants from industry, government, and academia. Participants are asked to design and develop a fitness application that could provide health monitoring, personalized fitness coaching, ...
Acumos AI Challenge sponsors to give out $100k in prizes
Thursday, July 26, 2018 by Richard Harris
AT&T and Tech Mahindra have announced that they will be sponsoring the Acumos AI Challenge, an open source developer competition that seeks innovative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.
Working with The Linux Foundation, the companies encourage students, developers and data scientists to submit their ground-breaking AI solutions for the chance to win prize m...
Tackle big data from space at Space App Camp
Monday, June 25, 2018 by Richard Harris
Big data from space such as the EO program Copernicus and the ESA Sentinel satellites provides tremendous amounts of data to many industry sectors. This big data from space offers countless opportunities in connection with mobile apps: From space, our planet’s atmosphere, land, and water can be continuously monitored for multiple application fields.
To ma...
How mobile video load time affects ad delivery
Monday, June 19, 2017 by Patrick Kennard
Ask any mobile app developer, and they’ll tell you that one of the greatest challenges in monetizing their apps through video ads isn’t finding the right demand or knowing when to run the videos; it’s figuring out how to present video ads without slowing down their apps. I’m sure every developer at some point has done a Google search for something like, “Which ad networ...
Salesforce Trailhead turned this future lawyer into a citizen developer
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 by Richard Harris
This week, we spoke with Krystal Carter, President, Chief Cloud Enthusiast, Danny Kay Cloud, about how she went from aspirations to being an attorney to owning her own cloud consulting company, and her advice for others looking to kick-start their career in the digital economy. Prior to working in tech what did you do for a living? What made you want to switch care...
Sencha opens up about SenchaCon, developer challenges, and platform updates
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha, a company that provides developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build cross-platform web application experiences, recently held its sixth user conference SenchaCon, the largest universal application event in the world. We caught up with Sencha’s CEO Art Landro to learn more about two announcements the company made at SenchaCon: an enhanc...
IBM Announces Winners of the 2014 Watson Mobile Developer Challenge
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 by Richard Harris
IBM has announced the three winners of its 2014 Watson Mobile Developer Challenge. Launched in February, the global competition encouraged developers and entrepreneurs to create consumer and business apps made with IBM's Watson cognitive computing capabilities.The teams, spanning 18 industries from 43 countries, submitted more than 400 business concepts. The submis...
Oracle Announces Most Significant Java Update in the History of the Platform
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Oracle has released Java 8, which they say is “the most significant Java technology release.” Oracle is announcing Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8), Java Platform, Micro Edition 8 (Java ME 8) and the related releases of Oracle's Java Embedded products. JDK 8 is a production-ready implementation of the Java SE 8 Platform Specification, wh...
Elementary Watson: IBM Opens Watson Mobile Developer Challenge to Create Cognitive Computing Apps
Thursday, February 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The power of IBM’s Watson is definitely not elementary and now app developers can create mobile consumer and business apps powered by IBM’s iconic Watson computing power. IBM has launched the Watson Mobile Developer Challenge a global competition. The program is part of a promotion to increase the exposure of the newly formed IBM Watson Group.What is the Watson Mob...
MasterCard to Host N>XT Developer Challenge in Canada
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Richard Harris
MasterCard is hosting a new 2-day developer challenge in Toronto, Canada called N>XT. The event challenges developers to create a working mobile payment proof-of-concept using the MasterCard SDK and APIs. The event will be on September 28 and 29 and will offer a $10,000 prize for the professional app developer category, a $10,000 prize for the student category a...
$4 Million Tizen App Challenge Announced
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Richard Harris
There is some serious cheese out there for developers to compete for in the $4 million (US funds) Tizen App Challenge. Developers can compete for 54 prizes in nine categories. Backed by Samsung Electronics and Intel, the Tizen operating system is an HTML5 environment created to compete with other app ecosystems. In a related story, CNET reports that Samsung has del...
Samsung Smart App Challenge for Galaxy Apps
Saturday, June 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
Samsung wants high quality apps for their Galaxy lineup, and they are willing to put their wallet behind it! In a 2nd year content aimed at creating high quality apps for the Samsung platform, they are offering $800,000 in prize money to the developers that can make something great. The prize breakdown looks like this:$200,000 will go to the first place winner, wit...
