Atlassian Developer Day on tour
Monday, September 9, 2024 by Richard Harris
Atlassian's Developer Day on Tour will be making a stop in Toronto, providing a platform for software development professionals to gather and engage with peers in the industry. This full-day event is designed to explore various topics relevant to the development community, including platform engineering, enhancing developer experiences, and optimizing workflows with...
Top crypto unicorns in 2024
Friday, August 2, 2024 by Austin Harris
The number of unicorns, or privately held startups with a valuation of $1 billion or more, has been growing over the past few years, reshaping our understanding of success, innovation, and entrepreneurship. With four recent newcomers in 2024, cryptocurrency companies are some of the youngest members of the exclusive club. Using data from the business analytics platform ...
Generative AI platform Cohere lands 500M in funding
Friday, July 26, 2024 by Richard Harris
Cohere, a generative AI startup co-founded by former Google researchers, has successfully raised $500 million in a new funding round. The investment was backed by notable players including Cisco, AMD, and Fujitsu. According to Bloomberg, this round also saw participation from Canadian pension investment manager PSP Investments and Canada’s export credit agency EDC...
Apple Swift Student Challenge winners for 2024
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 by Austin Harris
Apple’s annual Swift Student Challenge recognizes the best in student coding, and this year, it has added a new category to its ranks. Out of 350 winning submissions, 50 students have been named Distinguished Winners for building app playgrounds that stand out for their innovation, creativity, social impact, or inclusivity. These 50 students have been invited to a...
PGC London 2024 celebrates 10 year anniversary
Thursday, November 30, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Pocket Gamer Connects will celebrate its 10th anniversary this upcoming January at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2024. Hosted at the city's familiar Brewery venue, this conference will be the ultimate knowledge-sharing and networking event for the games industry.
Starting in the UK in 2014, the Pocket Gamer Connect event series has transformed from its modest...
App developer's salary in 2021
Monday, March 1, 2021 by Richard Harris
Economic uncertainty from the COVID-19 pandemic brought forth new challenges, drastically altering the needs and expectations of businesses on the IT front. While a tumultuous year for many industries, proprietary data from Hired and Vettery, the largest AI-driven hiring marketplace, found that the tech industry is highly resilient, with continued demand and job growth ...
Tech salaries in 2019 report is out
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 by Richard Harris
Career marketplace Hired released its fourth annual State of Salaries research report. The data looks at tech salaries in top global business hubs and analyzes how they’ve changed, how they fare when considering the cost of living, which industries pay the most, and how race and age impact compensation.
Other cities are giving SF a run for its money
The aver...
Mesmerizing Titanic virtual reality game coming to PlayStation
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 by Richard Harris
Titanic VR is launching on Playstation (PSVR). The highly realistic game’s graphics and characterization are based on real-life people who were on the ship. The game's developer, Immersive VR Education (IVRE), created 800 characters, while also providing various facts on-screen about the RMS Titanic and its sinking.
The sinking of the Titanic is ...
AR and deep neural networks collide to provide ModiFace
Thursday, September 28, 2017 by Austin Harris
ModiFace has announced a new live video based hair tracking and hair color simulation technology utilizing a deep neural network architecture. The new deep learning architecture utilizes a set of collaborative neural networks to detect hair in each video frame and to adjust the coloration of hair in a photo-realistic way. The implementation also utilizes the latest mach...
This Week The Linux Foundation Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Linux
Monday, August 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The LinuxCon North America conference has kicked off this week in Toronto, Canada and the top topic is the 25th anniversary of the Linux. It was on August 25, 1991 when Linus Torvalds created the Linux operating system which has grown to one of the largest open source projects worldwide.You can catch live streams from the event here. As part of the 25 anniversary c...
A Deep Dive into the Shopify Ecosystem
Friday, July 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with with Atlee Clark, the Director of Apps and Developer Relations at Shopify, to talk about the Shopify API and developer services.ADM: What is Shopify? What is the Shopify ecosystem? Clark: Shopify is the leading cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Our goal is to make commerce better for...
LinuxCon Conference Delves Deep into Open Source, Containers and Virtualization
Thursday, July 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Linux Foundation is again hosting its annual LinuxCon conference which will be held on August 22 – 24 in Toronto, Canada offering the opportunity for developers, sys admins, architects and all types and levels of technical talent to gather together at one event for education, collaboration and problem-solving for the Linux platform.The event offers more than 100 ses...
Hired.com Expands Developer Hiring Platform to France
Thursday, June 30, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hired.com, which connects developers with job offers from top companies, has announced that is has officially expanded to Paris, France following its acquisition of Paris-based alternative recruitment start-up Breaz earlier this year. The move represents Hired.com’s first entry in a non-English speaking market and the integration of the Breaz team has provided a smooth ...
KubeCon Joins CloudNativeCon this November in Seattle
Friday, April 29, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a Linux Foundation project and organization dedicated to advancing the development of cloud native applications and services. The organization has announced it will host and organize KubeCon, a CNCF event co-located with it’s the inaugural CloudNativeCon, this November in Seattle.KubeCon was originally organized by Kismati...
Upcoming STAR Software Application Testing Conferences for 2016
Monday, April 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The STAR conferences series will be held at three locations in North America this year focusing on software testing and quality improvement. The event covers the latest software testing technologies, concepts and tools covering the spectrum from established practices to emerging trends in test techniques, test management, test automation, mobile testing, agile testing, ...
IBM Opens Bluemix Garage in France
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
IBM is opening a new Bluemix Garage in Nice, France to help European based companies’ development and design of apps on IBM Cloud.This is the fourth location worldwide (also located in San Francisco, Toronto, London) of the Bluemix Garage, which offer physical hubs where multi-disciplinary teams, including developers, product managers and designers, can collaborate with...
IBM Opens Third Bluemix Garage in Canada
Friday, August 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
IBM has continued the expansion of its Bluemix Garage with a new location in Toronto, Canada. Bluemix Garages are intended to provide a regional resource to connect companies with IBM expertise in cloud applications.Toronto is the third Bluemix Garage, following San Francisco and London. Further expansion is planned with the additions of Nice, France and Melbourne, Aust...
Fuse Powered Launches Monetization Engine for Mobile Gaming Developers
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Fuse Powered has launched a new player-centric monetization engine for mobile gaming that supports the entire player lifecycle, giving publishers the opportunity to monetize each install. The Fuse platform combines in-app purchases and ad monetization capabilities to deliver offers targeted to players based on in-game behavior.Fuse allows mobile game publishers to segme...
App Developers Alliance to Offer Workshops on Starting an App Publishing Business
Friday, February 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Application Developers Alliance is reaching out to developers to help them learn more about creating an app publishing business through its App Strategy Workshop: Fundamentals series. These workshops are held in local settings to help mobile app developers, startups, and small app publishers learn about business basics and strategy fundamentals. During each eve...
Hired.com Reinvents the Recruiting Process for Software Developers and DevOps Engineers
Thursday, February 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
It sounds like a simple idea - matching top developer talent with top companies - curating both sides so that each is assured that they are getting exactly the match they are looking for. And it’s interesting that no-one has come up with an approach in the way that Hired.com has done. So what is unique about their platform? Before discussing how Hired.com matches c...
IBM Expands Its App Development Platforms: Opens Cloud Marketplace
Monday, May 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
IBM has expanded its MobileFirst Application Development portfolio including the addition of new industry-specific IBM Ready Apps. It has also announced the opening of 18 new IBM MobileFirst studios around the world.The IBM MobileFirst Application Development portfolio offers tools for developers to create, deploy and manage mobile apps, on-premise or in the c...
CodeProject Announces The Intel App Innovation Contest
Thursday, August 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
Intel App Innovation Contest Challenges Developers to Get Creative to Win Over $100,000 in Cash Prizes Global competition pits developers against each other in the ultimate Windows 8 App challenge August 1, 2013 - TORONTO, Canada CodeProject has announced its newest contest, the Intel App Innovation Contest (AIC) 2013, with over $100,000 in cash prizes. The global ...
MasterCard to Host N>XT Developer Challenge in Canada
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Richard Harris
MasterCard is hosting a new 2-day developer challenge in Toronto, Canada called N>XT. The event challenges developers to create a working mobile payment proof-of-concept using the MasterCard SDK and APIs. The event will be on September 28 and 29 and will offer a $10,000 prize for the professional app developer category, a $10,000 prize for the student category a...
Ad networks want mobile game developers traffic
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 by Richard Harris
Executives from Tapjoy, ChartBoost and others discuss their different and sometimes controversial approaches to app monetizationIf this hasn't happened to you yet, it will soon: you're playing a mobile game and you see an in-app ad for another game inside it. Normally you might ignore such things, but this one is offering a reward--free virtual currency, perhaps--for th...
