Serverless computing with StackPath's EdgeEngine
Friday, December 21, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
StackPath, a company that provides secure edge services, has released StackPath EdgeEngine, a simple yet powerful serverless computing service that lets developers run code at the cloud’s edge without a server, virtual machine, or container.
StackPath EdgeEngine is built on the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine and lets StackPath customers simply compose or paste scr...
Open source is truly open for business
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
NodeSource, the Node.js company, has announced the results of a new survey fielded among enterprise software developers ranking open source projects across a variety factors, including hiring, entrepreneurism and the likelihood of IPOs in the near future.The survey, which was aimed at gauging the momentum of Node.js within the open source software ecosystem, revealed th...
Voximplant tells us about their cloud communications platform
Friday, December 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
Voximplant, a communications cloud platform for mobile and web app developers, has been working to improve audio and visual communications in real time. They provide the tools for developer to create their own web and mobile communication applications. We've sat down with Alexey Aylarov, the CEO of Voximplant to talk more about what their company is about and where the ...
Foxit WebPDF 2.0 launches with REST API and Docker support
Thursday, November 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Foxit Software has announced the release of Foxit WebPDF Viewer 2.0. The new release includes enhanced rendering, performance and security features, equipping web developers for better customization, integration and document control.There are several performance enhancements in WebPDF 2.0, including faster parsing and rendering of local PDFs, lower levels of server stra...
Learn Why Node.js is an Open Source Juggernaut
Saturday, February 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Node.js Foundation was created last year to support the open source community involved with Node.js, which offers an asynchronous event driven framework designed to build scalable network applications. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. It uses a non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient. Node.js' packag...
Marvell Expands JavaScript Based IoT Development Platform
Thursday, July 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
Marvell has added to its solutions for embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) product prototyping with its latest JavaScript offering and two new hardware prototyping products.Marvell’s JavaScript Sixth Edition contains more than 400 individual changes to make the language more concise, improve performance, and integrate support for modules. Kinoma’s XS6 JavaScript engin...
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...
Original Intel HTML5 Web App XDK to Disappear in February
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
A number of big tech companies are seeking the holy grail of an HTML5 web app mobile platform that will unseat Apple and Google. Intel is one of these, and they are busily working to update their offering as recently outlined by Joe Wolf, Product Manager for the Intel XDK.From a blog post by Joe, “We intend to end-of-life the original Intel XDK (originally called t...
