GitHub Actions and other announcements from GitHub Universe
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
GitHub, the soon to be acquired by Microsoft company, has always been known for its source code repository capabilities for developers. But why just store the code on a platform when you can run it too?
At its annual developer conference, GitHub Universe, they announced Actions, which is essentially a way to help automate your development workflows. Actions use...
Using GitHub in the classroom helps developers feel more included
Friday, August 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
A GitHub survey conducted with a combined 8,000 college professors and students has concluded in order to weigh in on whether experience-based or traditional computer science teaching methods proves to work best. In the study, Github measured the predicted learning outcomes from classes that utilized GitHub in their learning experience and those that did not.
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GitHub Enterprise v2.13 lands for better collaboration
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 by Austin Harris
GitHub has recently announced in a blog post that the company is releasing GitHub Enterprise 2.13, an update which will give enterprise users better ways to collaborate, manage control over permissions, and build custom tools. New GitHub Enterprise 2.13 features include:Team discussions: gives teams dedicated URLs for team discussions held on GitHub, to help categorize ...
Tickets On Sale Now For GitHub Universe September 1415
Saturday, August 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
GitHub Universe is the flagship user conference for the GitHub community. The event will be held in San Francisco on September 14 -15, and is intended for developers, operations and system administrators, technical leads, entrepreneurs, and business leaders. The event features two keynotes, six featured speakers, and twenty-four breakout sessions that dive deep into tec...
Shippable Announces New Continuous Delivery Platform
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Shippable has announced a new continuous delivery which offers end-to-end deployment pipelines that help eliminate the need to create custom automation and integrations. It also gives developers flexibility and choice of development tools and deployment options, and provides an application delivery path with support for n-tier applications as well as cloud-native techno...
CircleCI CEO Jim Rose Discusses New Continuous Integration and Deployment Platform
Thursday, December 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, about the company’s recent release of its new CircleCI Enterprise solution which offers a continuous integration and deployment platform that provides security and configurability that comes from running inside a private cloud or data center.ADM: Can you tell us about CircleCI?Rose: Put simply, we help modern software ...
What is New in the Recent Release of Visual Studio 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft just released the highly anticipated Visual Studio 2015 just in advance of the impending Microsoft 10 release. Here is a rundown on what’s new for VS 2015:Cross-platform mobile device support - Android, iOS, and WindowsOut of the box, Visual Studio allows developers to use web technologies to build production quality mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows us...
Automic Launches Online Marketplace for Business Application Automation
Saturday, June 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Automic has announced the new Automic PlugIn Marketplace providing the ability to, buy, download or contribute plugins to drive automation for enterprises. The Automic PlugIn Marketplace enables users to access, or request new solutions that can be shared with the broader community. The platform can either be accessed via front end or via the Github backend. O...
Highlights from Day Two of Microsoft Build
Thursday, April 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft continued to announced services for the developer community on day two of of its Build conference. On a blog post Microsoft Chief Evangelist’s Steve Guggenheimer had this to say about the second day of the event, “ Kicking off Day 2 of Build today, I had the pleasure of expanding on the news and vision that Satya, Scott and Terry shared yesterday. We buil...
GitHub Releases Lots of Goodies for Developers
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The new year has barely gotten started and the folks at GitHub are busy at it as they have rolled out a number improvements. Faster, More Awesome GitHub PagesNow, when someone visits a Pages site, rather than GitHub serving the content directly, the page is served by a global Content Delivery Network, ensuring that the nearest physical server can serve up...