Gemini Pro preview - Even better coding performance
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 by Richard Harris
Developers had been doing amazing things with Gemini 2.5 Pro, so an updated version was released a couple of weeks early to get into developers’ hands sooner.
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) was recently released. This update features even stronger coding capabilities, for developers to start building with before Google I/O later this month. Meaningful imp...
AutonomyAI to transform development with autonomous AI Agent
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
AutonomyAI has announced its launch from stealth with $4 million in pre-seed funding, with participation from Inbound Capital, Gilad Shany of IoN Partners and Vikram Makhiija, Senior Director at Google Cloud Security, among others.
Research firm IDC predicts that by 2028, the market for AI-supporting technology investments will reach $749 billion, with 67% of the $22...
NET MAUI and the end of IE
Thursday, August 4, 2022 by Richard Harris
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the general availability of .NET MAUI, enabling developers to build cross-platform applications from a single codebase, saving costs, and eliminating the need to maintain multiple codebases.
According to Microsoft, the primary goal of .NET MAUI is to enable developers "to deliver the best app experience as designed speciall...
Mendix releases Atlas UI
Thursday, December 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
Mendix has announced the general availability of Atlas UI. Integrated into its low-code platform, Atlas UI enables developers without front-end development or UI design skills to create engaging, and highly usable user interfaces. With Atlas, an organization's UI/UX team can define a standardized design language to promote design best practices across multiple, autonomo...
How Rapid Application Development is Changing Everything
Saturday, September 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
I admit it, every time I hear the word RAD I go back to the 80's when BMX freestyle was at it's peak (I still own my beloved GT Performer)! But the RAD we are talking about here is "Rapid Application Development" (RAD), that used to be something reserved for making quick apps with minimal code input, little functionally, and that you did not intend on maintaining f...
Views From the Front and Back Side of App Development Careers
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 by Steve Kinney
Interested in landing a job with Google as a back-end developer? Well, you best have working knowledge of Java, C++, or Python. How about Twitter? Might want to be familiar with Ruby on Rails, Scala, C++, or Java. What if you’re interested in a position working as a front-end engineer? The programming language is pretty universal - JavaScript. According to research...
US Department of Commerce Opens Data Academy for DataDriven Decision Training
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 by Richard Harris
The US Department of Commerce is now offering the Commerce Data Academy to help educate and empower employees within the Department of Commerce to make data-driven decisions. The academy is tasked with enhancing the contribution of data to the economy by helping the 12 Bureaus of the U.S. Department of Commerce create and develop projects to advance the Department's mis...
A Look Into the New Sencha Application Testing Platform
Monday, April 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Subu Baskaran, a Senior Product Manager at Sencha, about the company’s new Sencha Test solution for Ext JS apps, which was made generally available in February. The platform is based on open source test frameworks, including Jasmine and Istanbul, with Sencha built components.ADM: What are some of the main challenges for developers today, when bu...
Get Out of the Cold Weather with Ft. Lauderdale UX and FrontEnd Conference
Thursday, January 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
UXDevSummit is a three-day event focused on the areas of User Experience (UX) and Front-End Development. Located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and held on February 4 – 6, the event offers keynotes, panels, workshops, exhibits, and entertainment that showcase leading advancements in UX and Front-End Development integration.The conference targets UX Professionals, Back and F...
WaveMaker Offers New Hybrid Functionality to its RAD Platform
Friday, December 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
WaveMaker has released the latest version of its Rapid App Development platform which offers responsive front-end development of applications for the web or mobile browser. The company’s new RAD Hybrid Mobile App Development platform adds new hybrid mobile app development capabilities that can leverage device capabilities such as camera, geo-location, network, local fil...
RedHat Shows Mobile Developers Continue to Be in High Demand
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 by Richard Harris
According to a recent survey, the mobile developer job market should continue to heat up as 50 percent of organizations plan to hire for mobile positions this year. Of those organizations, 32 percent are focused on skills related to front-end development, with 27 percent looking for back-end integration skills and 15 percent seeking DevOps for mobile. Nine percent of or...
Key Tips for App Development in a Hybrid Cloud Environment
Thursday, May 21, 2015 by Sravish Sridhar
According to ABI Research, the evolving enterprise mobility space will see tremendous growth in new cloud-based solutions as enterprises seek to mobilize quickly and easily. It’s no secret that the cause of this drive towards mobility is the development and deployment of enterprise apps, especially as there is a growing number of devices and device platforms access...
CreditCall Partner Program Brings Developers in on Mobile Payments Revenue
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 by Richard Harris
London, 22 October 2013 – CreditCall, the award-winning payment gateway and EMV Chip and PIN expert, is announcing the launch of its mPOS Toolkit Partner Program for app developers today at Apps World London. The mPOS Toolkit – including the CardEase Mobile SDK (Software Development Kit) - provides app developers with the tools they need to incorporate EMV certifie...
