What can you build with ChatGPT in 48 hours
Friday, April 3, 2026 by Adam Shea
A fundamental shift is underway in how users discover and interact with brands and their digital experiences, driven by advances in AI and conversational interfaces. In October 2025, that shift showed up clearly at OpenAI DevDay with the introduction of the Apps SDK.
Much like the launch of the App Store reshaped mobile computing, ChatGPT apps point to a new pa...
AI productivity rises amid 2026 uncertainty
Thursday, February 19, 2026 by Trey Abbe
AI continues to deliver measurable productivity and performance gains across organizations, but global economic uncertainty and geopolitical risk are reshaping technology investment, hiring, and innovation strategies for 2026, according to the annual Reveal Top Software Development Challenges Survey from Infragistics, released today. The study surveyed 250 senior t...
What's in Store for Open Source in 2026
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 by Mike Milinkovich
As 2025 draws to a close, many of us find ourselves reflecting on a year of remarkable change and looking ahead to what lies beyond the horizon. The end of the year often brings a mix of reflection and anticipation, a time when the open source ecosystem pauses to take stock and to imagine what the next chapter might bring.
In that spirit, I'd like to share a few ...
The Rise of Agentic Orchestration
Thursday, January 8, 2026 by Austin Harris
According to Tamas Cser, Founder and CEO of Functionize, the industry is on the verge of a structural shift. By 2026, development teams will transition from AI copilots to agentic fleets: coordinated groups of specialized AI agents operating semi-autonomously across the entire software lifecycle. In this new paradigm, engineering excellence is measured less by syntactic...
National App Day 2025: Industry leaders weigh in on app economy
Friday, December 12, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
With National App Day now behind us (December 11th), it’s a timely opportunity to reflect on the role applications continue to play in today’s workplace. Leaders from OutSystems, Xerox, and Appfire share their perspectives on how apps are shaping modern work - and what organizations can expect as app-driven productivity moves into its next chapter.
Nation...
Safe c plus plus proposal abandoned after community pushback
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, a significant effort to overhaul the C++ programming language for enhanced safety has come to an abrupt halt. The Safe C++ proposal, which sought to introduce a memory-safe subset of the language inspired by the guarantees found in newer languages like Rust, has been abandoned by its lead author. This development o...
Google Maps builder agent simplifies AI driven map creation
Monday, November 10, 2025 by Richard Harris
Google Maps Platform has unveiled a suite of artificial intelligence products and developer tools designed to streamline the creation of mapping and location-based applications. The new offerings, powered by Google’s Gemini models, help businesses and developers build faster, smarter, and more intuitively by connecting their AI systems directly with real-world geo...
tldraw sdk 4.0 release new starter kits and licensing model
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 by Richard Harris
The team behind tldraw, a London-based startup, has announced the fourth major version of its software development kit. The tldraw SDK is a TypeScript library designed for developers building web-based applications with infinite canvas capabilities. This significant update introduces a suite of new resources for developers, important changes to the product's licensi...
Legacy code unlocked by corestory ai platform
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 by Richard Harris
Enterprises across various industries are contending with a significant and growing challenge: aging legacy codebases that are critical to their operations but hinder future innovation. These systems, often written in languages like COBOL, C, and Java, can be brittle, poorly documented, and a major roadblock to modernization efforts. Organizations looking to digitally t...
Perforce reveals uncertainty around AI data privacy
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 by Austin Harris
Perforce Software’s 2025 State of Data Compliance and Security Report has revealed a striking disconnect between enterprise AI ambitions and the understanding of data privacy risks. According to the report, a large majority of organizations support using sensitive data in AI development but simultaneously express significant concerns about its security. This parad...
Developer centric strategies for deploying AI models in production
Monday, October 13, 2025 by Austin Harris
Ed Charbeneau, in a recent discussion, highlighted practical strategies for deploying AI models in production. Known for his work as Principal Developer Advocate at Progress Software, Charbeneau emphasized managing non-deterministic AI behavior, integrating agentic AI into developer workflows, and optimizing tools and context management to enhance productivity and relia...
Oracle names co-CEOs in bold leadership change
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Oracle has appointed insiders Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as co-chief executive officers, marking the end of Safra Catz’s 11-year tenure as sole CEO. The decision underscores Oracle’s reliance on its cloud business as it competes with Microsoft and Alphabet in a rapidly expanding market. Catz will remain with the company as vice chair of the board.
Dur...
Java 25 focus on developers and AI in new Oracle release
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 by Austin Harris
The latest release of Oracle’s long-standing programming platform, designed to support both traditional and AI-enhanced applications. The update includes thousands of improvements, emphasizing productivity, performance, stability, and security, while providing long-term support for enterprises.
Enhanced support for AI integration
Java 25 includes updates aim...
Raised H-1B costs may shift tech jobs to U.S. Developers
Monday, October 6, 2025 by Richard Harris
A new requirement imposing a $100,000 annual fee on many H-1B visa petitions has reshaped the debate about how U.S. companies recruit technology talent. The measure applies broadly to employers hiring or renewing foreign workers and significantly increases the financial burden on businesses that depend on this visa category.
What the new rule changes
The fee appli...
BUILD dev conference for AI and Apps
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 by Richard Harris
Attendees explore cloud data, AI integration, and application development at the BUILD dev conference for AI and Apps, gaining practical experience through virtual workshops, sessions, and online resources. The event provides developers, data engineers, IT professionals, and technology leaders with hands-on opportunities to apply cloud and AI tools in real-world project...
OpenAI open weight models released for optimized laptop performance
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 by Austin Harris
OpenAI has released two open-weight language models designed to operate efficiently on laptops and personal computers. These models are intended to provide advanced reasoning capabilities while allowing developers greater flexibility through local deployment and fine-tuning. Unlike proprietary models, open-weight models provide public access to trained parameters, enabl...
No code platforms under pressure from AI tools
Wednesday, September 17, 2025 by Richard Harris
The software development landscape has shifted as artificial intelligence introduces new ways to create apps. No code tools, long valued for enabling nontechnical users to build apps through visual interfaces, now face competition from AI systems that generate code and workflows based on natural language prompts. Analysts suggest these changes do not necessarily mean th...
Next level GIS using realtime 3d solutions with Unity and Esri
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 by Richard Harris
Unity Technologies and Esri have announced a collaboration to combine GIS data with real-time 3D simulations. This integration allows organizations to visualize geographic and infrastructure data in interactive 3D environments. According to the companies, this approach supports more detailed and dynamic modeling of urban, transportation, and energy systems.
Integrati...
Developers leveraging AI generate more code, survey finds
Thursday, September 11, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly influencing software development, and a recent survey suggests that developers leveraging AI are reshaping coding workflows. Cloud platform provider Fastly conducted a survey in July 2025 with 791 professional developers, revealing notable differences in AI usage between junior and senior developers.
How senior developers ...
Vibecoding goes from hobby to business
Thursday, September 11, 2025 by Austin Harris
RevenueCat, said to be the platform powering in-app purchases for more than 50,000 apps, looks to have become a common platform for transforming vibecoded apps into revenue-generating businesses. As vibecoders look to uplevel their AI-built apps from passion projects to money-making ventures, RevenueCat is enabling them to charge for in-app experiences through subscript...
AI powered QA for agile software testing with Functionize
Friday, September 5, 2025 by Trey Abbe
Functionize is an AI-powered platform designed for the intelligent creation of software test cases. It empowers enterprises, including Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations, to accelerate software delivery while maintaining quality by reducing testing maintenance, increasing automation, and allowing both technical and non-technical users to contribute to the quality...
Omniverse robotics tools launched by NVIDIA
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA recently announced new NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models (WFMs) that accelerate the development and deployment of robotics solutions.
Powered by new NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers and NVIDIA DGX Cloud, the libraries and models let developers anywhere develop physically accurate digital twins, capture and reconstruct the real wo...
GitHub CEO to step down
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 by Austin Harris
GitHub recently announced that Chief Executive Officer Thomas Dohmke will step down at the end of 2025 to pursue a new entrepreneurial venture. Dohmke, who joined GitHub following the sale of his startup to Microsoft over a decade ago, has led the company through a transformative era marked by rapid AI innovation, record user growth, and global platform expansion.
Gi...
Stack Overflow 2025 Developer Survey
Friday, August 29, 2025 by Austin Harris
The 2025 Developer Survey from Stack Overflow gathered input from over 49,000 developers in 177 countries. The survey covered 62 questions on 314 technologies, with new focus areas including AI agent tools, large language models (LLMs), and developer community platforms. Now in its fifteenth year, it provides a broad look at the state of software development worldwide.
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GitHub Copilot surpasses 20M users
Monday, August 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
Microsoft Corporation wrapped up its fiscal year 2025 on an exceptionally strong note, delivering robust growth across cloud, AI, productivity, and consumer services. The tech giant reported a 24% year-over-year jump in net income for the fourth quarter, amounting to $27.2 billion, while revenue for the same period reached $76.4 billion, an 18% increase. These results u...
Simple rules to fix code reviews
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
In a software development landscape increasingly augmented by AI-generated code, code reviews remain a critical safeguard for quality, collaboration, and team coherence. Yet despite decades of collective experience, code reviews often become inefficient bottlenecks. Sergey Tselovalnikov, a seasoned engineer, proposes that we don’t need more checklists or “be...
Google OOS Rebuild announced
Friday, August 8, 2025 by Austin Harris
Google has unveiled OSS Rebuild, a new initiative aimed at enhancing trust and transparency across open source package ecosystems. As software supply chain attacks continue to threaten widely-used dependencies, OSS Rebuild offers a scalable and low-friction solution that supports reproducible builds, independent verification, and provenance generation, all without burde...
Python 3.14 release candidate 1
Thursday, August 7, 2025 by Austin Harris
The Python Software Foundation recently announced the availability of Python 3.14 Release Candidate 1 (3.14.0rc1), marking the penultimate preview of the upcoming Python 3.14 series. The release is now live and available for download. With this milestone, Python 3.14 enters the release candidate phase. From this point forward, only reviewed code changes that constitute ...
New Xbox certificates and courses on Coursera
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 by Austin Harris
As part of a broader Microsoft initiative to expand access to in-demand tech training, Xbox has partnered with Coursera to launch online programs that help learners explore creative and technical roles in gaming. Whether someone is switching industries or just starting out, these flexible programs cover everything from graphic design and product management to AI-assiste...
Better code quality starts with AI developer tools says Greptile
Thursday, July 31, 2025 by Richard Harris
Greptile, the provider of AI-powered code review solutions, recently announced its vision for transforming software development through artificial intelligence (AI) developer tools, emphasizing the growing necessity of integrating these technologies into modern development workflows to improve code quality.
Better code quality starts with AI developer tools says Grep...
From SNL to software
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 by Richard Harris
John Krewson is the founder and CEO of Sketch Development Services, a St. Louis-based consultancy known for helping companies simplify the complex process of delivering software. With a background that spans software development, project management, and leadership, plus a surprising past in entertainment, including a brief appearance on Saturday Night Live, Krewson...
Swift Project Launches Android Workgroup
Monday, July 14, 2025 by Austin Harris
The Swift programming language community has announced the formation of the Android Workgroup, a new initiative dedicated to making Android an officially supported platform for Swift. This landmark development marks a significant step forward in Swift's evolution as a truly cross-platform language for modern software development.
Swift Project Launches Android Wo...
2025 Artifact Management Report
Thursday, July 10, 2025 by Richard Harris
The 2025 Artifact Management Report arrives at a moment of profound change for software development teams worldwide. As organizations grapple with unprecedented security challenges, rapid AI adoption, and complex software supply chains, this year’s findings expose the critical gaps and evolving expectations surrounding artifact management. With software now the ba...
Expanding AI by developers revealed in new survey
Monday, July 7, 2025 by Richard Harris
Expanding AI use has become the number one priority for technology leaders, with 73% identifying it as their primary focus in 2025, according to part two of the 2025 Reveal Software Development Challenges Survey of 250 technology leaders, released today by Infragistics. The data shows widespread momentum: 75% of organizations already leveraged AI for software creation i...
BLACK app empowers student collaboration
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
In a time when academic pressure and digital distractions are at their peak, students are increasingly in need of tools that simplify communication, streamline resource sharing, and foster collective learning. Rising to meet this challenge is BLACK, a student-built mobile application developed with one clear goal, to transform how students collaborate.
The creator be...
