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Microsoft Build 2025

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 by Richard Harris

Microsoft is set to host the much-anticipated Microsoft Build 2025 conference, featuring a comprehensive lineup of .NET and C# content designed to engage developers of all experience levels. The event, taking place both in-person in Seattle and virtually from May 19-22, 2025, will showcase the latest advancements and future directions of .NET technologies. Microsoft ...

Microsoft misconfigurations expose millions of records globally

Monday, November 18, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

In September 2024, significant data exposure was discovered within Microsoft Power Pages, a low-code SaaS platform, due to misconfigured access controls. The exposure, which potentially affected millions of individuals, highlights the risks associated with excessive permissions granted to the platform's "Anonymous" and "Authenticated" user roles....

CSS3 to CSS5 web styling evolution

Monday, November 11, 2024 by Austin Harris

The world of web design and development has been abuzz with conversations about the future of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), as discussions around the emergence of CSS5 begin to take shape. This renewed focus comes amid curiosity about what followed CSS3, a version that significantly transformed web design back in 2009. While CSS4 never officially materialized, the web c...

Combining sticky headers with full height elements

Friday, November 8, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

In the ever-evolving world of web design, creating interfaces that are both aesthetically pleasing and functionally robust is a constant challenge. One area that has proven particularly tricky is the combination of sticky headers with full-height elements. As Philip Braunen points out, "Sticky positioning is one of those CSS features that's pretty delicate and ...

Optimizing lighthouse score alone is insufficient for achieving a fast website

Friday, November 8, 2024 by Richard Harris

In the digital age, where speed is synonymous with user satisfaction, website performance is a critical factor for success. Web developers and site owners often turn to tools like Google Lighthouse to gauge their site's performance. Achieving a perfect Lighthouse score of 100% can be a moment of triumph. However, a flawless score does not necessarily equate to a fas...

Bottom-up design improves site accessibility

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 by Richard Harris

In the digital age, accessibility is a cornerstone of effective website design, ensuring that all users, regardless of their abilities, can navigate and interact with online content seamlessly. The adoption of a bottom-up design approach is gaining traction as a means to improve site accessibility, offering a more inclusive online experience. This method emphasizes atte...

Piecesjs framework for native web components

Sunday, November 3, 2024 by Richard Harris

In the ever-evolving landscape of web development, the quest for efficiency and creativity continues to drive innovation. A recent addition to this dynamic field is Piecesjs, a lightweight JavaScript framework designed to enhance the development of native web components. Built upon the principles of simplicity and creativity, Piecesjs offers a comprehensive suite of too...

Astronomy classifieds and news website re-launches

Monday, May 13, 2024 by Richard Harris

Imagine traveling back to 2001, where a young and passionate budding astronomer juggles a corporate career as an engineer and software developer by day, and devotes his evenings to working with and on telescopes. This dedication ultimately led to a patent and copyright for a process known as the "HyperTune." In the same year, this astronomer launched a webs...

App Builder Design contest from Infragistics

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

Infragistics, the provider of tools and solutions for app design and development, has announced a new App Builder Design Contest where developers, designers and non-designers alike can unleash their creativity and win prizes. The competition provides participants with free access to the App Builder drag & drop tool, which allows designers and developers to...

JSON RPC Hedera integration brings EVM tools and wallets

Monday, August 21, 2023 by Richard Harris

JSON-RPC is now openly accessible and ready for in-production application use on the Hedera network, the open-source, leaderless proof-of-stake public network. By incorporating JSON-RPC support, Hedera fosters increased interoperability and greater EVM equivalence, streamlining the Web3 development experience for developers and infrastructure providers. As an open-sourc...

Robots and app development predictions for 2023 from Mobot

Friday, January 13, 2023 by Richard Harris

Eden Full Goh from Mobot explains why mobile adoption is continuing to rise, how companies are increasingly becoming mobile-first, why QA is more critical than ever, what the role robotics is playing in relation to mobile app development, how companies can use plug-and-play to simplify tech stacks, and tons more. Everyone is becoming a mobile-first company. Althou...

Data movement simplified from Equalum and Yellowbrick

Monday, December 19, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

Equalum announced a strategic partnership with Yellowbrick Data. The partnership leveraging the Equalum platform enables a more simple, efficient, and higher-performance migration of data from legacy environments to the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse hosted in the user’s preferred commercial cloud environment. Announced during the 2022 AWS Summit in San Francisco, ...

Metaverse industry report 2022 from GamesPad

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

The Metaverse Industry Report 2022 by GamesPad Co-Founders Constantin Kogan and Eran Elhanani examines new markets in the metaverse, as well as strategies for entrepreneurs to capitalize on emerging business opportunities. The potential metaverse market opportunity is projected to reach a whopping $13 trillion by 2030. Many leading brand...

Oracle Web3 development accelerates

Tuesday, August 16, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

InfStones and Oracle have announced that they are collaborating on integrating InfStones’ leading blockchain development platform with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to accelerate Web3 development. This collaboration will help deliver important insights that drive the evolution, development, and adoption of Web3 applications worldwide. InfStones en...

NET MAUI and the end of IE

Thursday, August 4, 2022 by Richard Harris

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the general availability of .NET MAUI, enabling developers to build cross-platform applications from a single codebase, saving costs, and eliminating the need to maintain multiple codebases. According to Microsoft, the primary goal of .NET MAUI is to enable developers "to deliver the best app experience as designed speciall...

Frontend development trends for 2022

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 by Richard Harris

Marcin Gajda, frontend team manager at The Software House, has over a decade of experience in different fields of web development and a handful of delivered products. He aims to make other developers write better code and strive to always find the best solution. Gajda shared with us, all of the key insights from the State of Frontend report, including the scop...

Developer relations teams in 2022

Tuesday, January 4, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

As the Director of Developer Relations at Mindee, Frederic Harper helps developers merge the physical and digital worlds using the magic of machine learning coupled with the ease of APIs. He’s helped build successful communities at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Fitbit, and is the author of the book Personal Branding for Developers at Apress. Harper di...

Web development platform Vercel acquires Turborepo

Monday, January 3, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

Vercel has acquired Turborepo, a high-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos that makes it easy for teams to scale their codebases and accelerate build speeds. Existing Turborepo customers will have a seamless migration path to move from Turborepo's cloud-based caching infrastructure to Vercel, and Turborepo CLI is now open source unde...

SnykCon 2021 event lineup

Friday, September 24, 2021 by Randall Degges

We're only a few weeks away from SnykCon 2021, Snyk's free annual developer conference that helps you learn how to build applications securely running October 5-7. We have a packed agenda full of expert talks, hands-on workshops, helpful demos, product roadmaps, opportunities to interact with some of the smartest speakers and leaders of developer security i...

ABBYY updates machine learning library

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

ABBYY announced a major update for NeoML, its cross-platform open-source machine learning library that allows developers to build, train and deploy machine learning models. The update adds support of the Python programming language, the most popular language for machine learning and AI. The framework also offers 5-10x speed improvements as well as 20+ new ML method...

Low code tool adoption to increase in 2021 Infragistics predicts

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by Richard Harris

Driven in part by COVID-19, the continued rapid pace of digital transformation across enterprises is creating enormous innovation opportunities while at the same time significantly increasing demand on IT to deliver new mobile application experiences. Development teams were already seeing overloaded backlogs in 2020 and we predict that in 2021 more organizations will...

Anvil extends web app development

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Software startup Anvil announced a major extension of its powerful web app development environment, which makes it simple for Python developers to quickly design, build and ship web apps in minutes. By making its runtime engine open source, any of the 8 million developers worldwide who know the Python language can now choose to deploy their apps on their own machines...

Free scholarships to Codecademy Pro up for grabs

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 by Richard Harris

Codecademy is now offering 10,000 scholarships to Codecademy Pro for free to K-12 and college students across the world for the rest of the school year. The scholarships to Codecademy Pro include unlimited Codecademy programming, data science, and mobile development courses (thousands of hours), a community of peers, and paths to help students be successful. The curr...

Syncfusion introduces new flutter widgets

Thursday, December 5, 2019 by Richard Harris

Syncfusion, Inc. is proud to announce the release of its new suite of Flutter widgets. Syncfusion’s Essential Studio for Flutter comes with powerful, user-friendly, and feature-rich charts and a data visualization widget, a radial gauge, written natively in Dart, making them compatible for Android, iOS, and web with no changes needed in the source code. “...

What Render announced at TechCrunch Disrupt SF's Startup Battlefield

Thursday, October 3, 2019 by Freeman Lightner

Render announced three major additions to its platform - Disks, Infrastructure as Code in the form of render.yaml and Deploy To Render button - onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Startup Battlefield. Startup Battlefield showcases the most promising early-stage and fundamentally disruptive startups. When it comes to hosting applications in the cloud, developers ...

Kendo UI Web development toolkit lands from Progress

Friday, September 27, 2019 by Freeman Lightner

Progress, the provider of application development and digital experience technologies, has announced the latest release of Progress Kendo UI, the most complete UI toolkit for web development. The release includes a series of new components for Angular, React and jQuery, as well as major enhancements for some of its most popular existing components. &...

Ten industries using Python programming

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger

ActiveState released a new report examining the top 10 use cases of the open source language Python. They (ActiveState) has been building Python since 1999 and has seen customers’ use of Python grow from a scripting solution for sysadmins to web development for programmers to the driving force behind machine learning. Use cases have grown, along with usage and ...

TIBCO's cloud platform gets improvements

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 by Richard Harris

TIBCO Software Inc. has new and enhanced capabilities for the TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud platform at the TIBCO NOW Global Tour 2019 event in Singapore. Empowered with these systems, businesses are able to connect disparate data, govern their information effectively, and augment the resulting intelligence. Critical collaboration between various per...

App developer and software jobs might be declining says new report

Thursday, January 17, 2019 by Richard Harris

If your title is app developer, or work if you work in the software development field and are starting to feel like the Jedi are dying off - you might be on to something. According to a new report put out by Freelancer.com, the software developer job title, and a few others including app developer, and app designer, have seen a dramatic decrease in popularity since l...

Creating native mobile apps without writing native code

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 by Richard Harris

Native programming can strike fear into the heart of anyone that doesn't know how to write it. While we as programmers understand our limits and capabilities, we still like to brag about the complicated function or route we just wrote. But just drop the words "Objective C, or Android Java" into the next conversation you have with fellow programmers and see...

Project OWL wins IBM's 2018 Call for Code Global Challenge

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 by Richard Harris

Project OWL (Organization, Whereabouts, and Logistics), an IoT and software solution that keeps first responders and victims connected in a natural disaster, has won the 2018 Call for Code Global Challenge. Call for Code is a five-year global initiative that is the largest and most ambitious effort bringing together start-up, academic and enterprise developers to solve ...

Kony now supports making progressive web apps

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 by Richard Harris

Kony, Inc. announced new enhancements of its Kony AppPlatform to support Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Kony is the first vendor to support enterprise-grade, low-code PWA development for mission-critical apps. Developers can use Kony’s visual low-code platform to develop PWAs, while leveraging backend services and third-party integrations for building enterprise app...

Angular 7 highlights, improvements, and gotchas

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 by Richard Harris

Google recently announced its new Angular 7, which has been noted as a major release spanning the entire platform, including the core framework, Angular Material, and the CLI with synchronized major versions. These benefits along with more, such as CDK virtual scrolling capabilities and drag & drop feature, have developers excited to dive in. Carl Bergenhem, a Produ...

NASCAR Hall of Fame getting updates thanks to Crossfield Digital

Tuesday, June 26, 2018 by Richard Harris

Crossfield Digital is enhancing visitor experiences at the NASCAR Hall of Fame and Formula 1 Grand Prix races with new technology recently introduced at each venue. Both use a mix of portable devices and proprietary software to create a more immersive and interactive fan experience. At the NASCAR Hall of Fame, visitors utilize the LEGEND portable device provide...

Adding HTTP-2 to Node.js progress report

Tuesday, May 1, 2018 by Richard Harris

The first documented version of HTTP was released in 1991, known as HTTP 0.9. This later led to the official introduction and recognition of HTTP 1.0 in 1996, but improvements and updates came swiftly in 1997 which stamped out HTTP 1.1. There hasn’t been a major update to the web protocol for over 15 years. As the web increases in complexity and usage, websites hav...