ONCD asks software manufacturers to adopt memory safe languages
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 by Richard Harris
The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) has released a new report asking software manufacturers to adopt memory-safe programming languages to help reduce vulnerabilities from entering the supply chain.
"For thirty-five years, memory safety vulnerabilities have plagued the digital ecosystem, but it doesn’t have to be this way. This repo...
AI VS code extension from Metabob speeds up code review
Monday, May 15, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
Metabob announced a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual studio code (VSCode) extension for its debugging and refactoring tool that speeds software development code review by 60%. It provides users with useful context-sensitive code recommendations to fix errors right in the integrated development environment (IDE), and it is specifically trained to fix code...
What you are missing about DevOps
Friday, July 24, 2020 by Richard Harris
DevOps and Kubernetes has challenges but most of them are centered around common misunderstandings or rushing into things too quickly. Kevin Crawley is a Developer Advocate at Containous and offers his thoughts with ADM about how you can overcome many of the challenges, along with some sharing some best practices, and even the solution to the prisoner’s dilemma.
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From monolith to microservices: Why Credit Karma made the switch
Thursday, December 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
Credit Karma, the personal finance technology company powering more than 100M members, migrated from monolith to microservices, which they say has vastly increased developer efficiency for its engineering team, which makes up more than half of Credit Karma’s 1000+ employee base.
We caught up with Nick Nance, VP of Engineering at Credit Karma, to chat about w...
Universal source code search engine emerges
Friday, November 22, 2019 by Richard Harris
Sourcegraph announced a new collaboration with GitLab, along with the world’s first universal source code search engine. The company has experienced exponential growth fueled by its expanding community of over 10,000 paid developers and tens of thousands of free open source developers who actively use its platform.
“GitLab and Sourcegraph are both oriente...
Data Transfer Project wants to make switching platforms easy
Tuesday, July 24, 2018 by Austin Harris
The Data Transfer Project was formed in 2017 and was initially designed to create a data transfer protocol that would make data more portable across the web. Recently the organization has released a new white paper named, Data Transfer Project Overview and Fundamentals, on how readers can build a platform that lets individuals port data between app services. The open so...
Using AppDynamics for Kubernetes and CloudCenter 4.9 together
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
Cisco has announced Kubernetes support for AppDynamics and Cisco CloudCenter, enabling enterprises to quickly adopt Kubernetes in production, and create and modernize their applications for the multicloud era. Now, enterprises can easily harness the value of Kubernetes to help deliver better user experiences.Companies are rapidly adopting containers on the promise of in...
Record growth in microservices
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, LightStep announced the findings of their Global Microservices Trends report, based on an independent research study conducted by Dimensional Research that was commissioned by LightStep.Key findings in the research are:Record Growth of Microservices92 percent of respondents said they increased their number of microservices in the last year.9...
Google offers advice about microservices and refactoring apps
Monday, April 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Pioneered by Netflix, microservices have quickly become one of the biggest trends in app development, giving developers greater flexibility and agility when it comes to building modern apps. While these new architectures can offer vast improvements over more traditional monolithic deployments, it’s essential developers understand when and where these technologies are be...
Qt 5.8 released one framework to rule them all
Monday, January 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
Qt 5.8 has been released and is available for download from qt.io. Qt 5.8 does of course come with Qt Creator 4.2.1 and an update to Qt for Device Creation. Qt 5.8 is a rather large release, containing quite a large set of new functionality.The highlights of the release include:Qt LiteOne of the main themes of Qt 5.8 has been to make Qt more flexible and easie...
New blockchain scalability from Waves platform
Saturday, January 14, 2017 by Austin Harris
Waves platform, the custom blockchain token initiative targeting mass-market consumer and business adoption, has announced a series of measures to enable greater network scalability.Scalability has long been a problem for cryptocurrency platforms. Since every transaction is recorded on the blockchain, the requirement of resources to process and store the information con...
Built.io unveils substantial changes to Contentstack
Monday, November 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Built.io Contentstack's new features include a complete refactoring and optimization of the underlying database, resulting in major performance improvements to the core content management engine. In addition, the headless CMS now offers turnkey integration with a Content Delivery Network (CDN). The CDN is directly integrated with Built.io Contentstack's Content API...
Why Microservices are so important
Monday, November 7, 2016 by Jim Scott
Having been a software engineer for nearly 20 years I have an appreciation for what is important when it comes to creating great software. One of the most important things that is not well understood by non-engineers is that the development process is equal parts artistry and logic. I see software architecture to be much like artistry. This is because there is no single...
Xojo 2016 Release 3 Ships With Loads of New Features for Making Apps
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
Austin based Xojo, Inc. has announced Xojo 2016 Release 3. With built-in support for graphics, database servers, internet protocols and more, anyone can build just about anything they can imagine with Xojo. The latest release adds compiler optimization options and refactoring features for the IDE and Code Editor, along with more than 90 total improvements and 11 new fea...
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...
How to Accelerate Your DevOps Application Workflow
Thursday, April 21, 2016 by Val Bercovici
In today’s digital economy, cloud platforms enable startups to disrupt any business, no matter how established. It’s also the key technology driving innovation within enterprises.Innovation is solving new problems that companies don’t even know exist, and DevOps is an increasingly popular organizational structure which lets you optimize both your innovation and operatio...
Testing Processes within App Development Agencies
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 by Martin Poschenrieder
Over the past couple of years I have worked with both traditional “in-house” app development teams, and with several app development companies that focus on client projects, which I will call ‘app agencies’. From my experience and dialogue with both parties, I have seen that app agencies have their own development and testing challenges, compared with in-house developme...
LinkedIn's New Project Voyager App Features Continuous Delivery on Steroids
Sunday, February 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
LinkedIn recently released Project Voyager, their codename for the new version of the company’s flagship application for Android, iOS, and the mobile web catering to its over 400 million users. According to the LinkedIn dev team, Voyager is the result of more than a year of product development work by over 250 engineers. They rethought the LinkedIn experience from the g...
Accenture and AWS Team Up to Create New Cloud Consulting Group
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Accenture and Amazon Web Services are creating a new “Accenture AWS Business Group” that brings individuals from each company with expertise in cloud solutions architecture and development, marketing, sales, and business development. The business group will offer integrated consulting and technology solutions designed to offer an “as-a-service” operating model wher...
C++ Developer Tools From JetBrains
Friday, October 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Many of you are familiar with JetBrains, which provides the development community with a myriad of tools that automates common, repetitive tasks as well as help developers explore and familiarize with code bases faster.JetBrains has tools for a number of environments including Android, iOS, Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, C++, and many more. From IDEs, Code Editing Tools, Iss...
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...
Google Releases Android M Developer Preview
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
Google has released the Android M developer preview, offering a clear timeline for testing and feedback plus more updates to the preview build. For the M release, Google reports they have focused on improving the core user experience of and making big changes to the fundamentals of the platform.The M Developer Preview includes an updated SDK with tools, system images fo...
DevOps Is Hot, Real Hot!
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 by Pete Waterhouse
“It’s hot. Damn hot! Real hot!” - Classic stuff from the 1987 movie – Good Morning Vietnam.When looking at DevOps we could say the same, couldn’t we? The trend is certainly hot, and just like the weather outlook in the tropics, we can expect a similar pattern to ensue for some time. Sure, there’ll be vigorous debate around various approaches and tools, but in the end mo...
Embarcadero Releases Major Updates for Its RAD Studio XE8 Connected App Platform
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies has released a major update to its RAD Studio XE8 connected app platform. Included in this new release is the ability for Delphi/Object Pascal and C++ developers to leverage their Windows VCL applications and build expanded, innovative solutions for mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT).RAD Studio XE8 delivers connectivi...
Embarcadero Technologies Grows its RAD Studio Platform with Acquisition of Castalia for Delphi and Usertility from TwoDesk Software
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Embarcadero Technologies is expanding its suite of software solutions for application and database development by acquiring Castalia for Delphi and Usertility from TwoDesk Software. Embarcadero will incorporate the productivity features of Castalia into its RAD Studio integrated development environment (IDE) to enhance and optimize the coding experience for both Ob...
StrongLoop Node.js API Server Released for Developing, Securing and Scaling REST APIs
Thursday, July 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
StrongLoop, a provider of solutions for Node.js, has released the StrongLoop API Server to facilitate the ability to develop, deploy, secure and scale REST APIs written in Node. The StrongLoop API Server is a set of components that work together to take an API project from development to production. The impact of the proliferation of mobile devices along with the r...
Eclipse Shoots for the Moon with Luna Release
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Eclipse Foundation has released Eclipse Luna which includes official support for Java 8 in the Java development tools, Plug-in Development Tools, Object Teams, Eclipse Communication Framework, Maven integration, Xtext, Xtend, Web Tools Platform, and Memory Analyzer. The Eclipse compiler includes language enhancements, search and refactoring, Quick Ass...
How Javascript and HTML5 Make the Perfect Mix To Develop Your Next Game
Friday, March 28, 2014 by Craig Robinson
Last year we had the opportunity to create a series of five mahjong link games (a variation on the standard) in HTML5 for Spil Games. The first game we built was Dream Pet Link. Given that we were tasked with building four additional games with the same mechanic but different themes, we knew we’d be able to reuse much of the same code. We could just write the first game...
Unity3D: For Beginners and Professionals
Friday, October 11, 2013 by Jeff Sasmor
More than likely you've already
heard of Unity3D; in fact, there's a
good chance you're already a user.
With more than 1.7 million registered
developers, Unity is on its
way to becoming as ubiquitous as
mobile phones. Users range from
hobbyists, students, and Indie
developers like me, all the way up
to big-name game studios and
companies doing simulation ...
Google Open Sources Gumbo: A C library For Parsing HTML5
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 by Richard Harris
Hates off to Google for trying to help the HTML5 standard issue with it's announcement that Gumbo is now open source - in hopes that all browsers can follow suite and get along with HTML5 written code in the same way!Gumbo is an implementation of the HTML5 parsing algorithm implemented as a pure C99 library with no outside dependencies. It's designed to serve ...
Getting Started with Android Studio
Thursday, May 16, 2013 by Richard Harris
Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. Similar to Eclipse with the ADT Plugin, Android Studio provides integrated Android developer tools for development and debugging. On top of the capabilities you expect from IntelliJ, Android Studio offers: Gradle-based build support. Android-specific refactoring and...
