GrammaTech releases CodeSonar 5
Software security tool provider GrammaTech has announced the latest release of its static analysis tool CodeSonar. According to the company, CodeSonar 5 is “the next step in usability and extensibility for users of static analysis.” This release adds support for C# and the Visual Studio IDE. It also adds support for importing results with the …
SD Times news digest: Intel acquires Vertex.AI, Google’s hearing aid specification for Android, and Neurala’s AI for Good competition
Intel has acquired deep learning company Vertex.AI into its Artificial Intelligence Product Group. Intel will continue to develop the deep learning framework PlaidML as an open-source project and it will soon transition it to the Apache 2.0 license. According to Intel, a priority of PlaidML will continue to be supporting a variety of hardware. Google …
Microsoft open sources new framework for Windows driver development
Windows driver developers are getting a new tool to share code between drivers and developers with the release of the Driver Module Framework (DMF). It is an open-source framework designed to improve and speed up the development of Windows Driver Frameworks. “Over the years Surface organization developed many products such as Pro, Studio, Laptop, Book …
SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Dev.to
This week’s highlighted project comes courtesy of a community of developers who hope that their codebase will be used to foster communities like theirs, focused on education and collaboration among peers of any skill level. Dev.to’s codebase is open-source as of last week week and the community-building platform’s developers think that further community involvement in …
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SEI CERT releases open-source Source Code Analysis Laboratory for pinpointing vulnerabilities
The Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) CERT Division at Carnegie Mellon University released an open-source static analysis aggregator/correlator this week. Source Code Analysis application (SCALe) is designed to find vulnerabilities in application source code via multiple, independent static analysis tools. Compatible with any source code language, this public release of SCALe provides alerts based on two …
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 released
Microsoft is focusing on improving productivity and performance in the latest release of Visual Studio 2017. Version 15.8 includes a number of new enhancements, but some of the most notable features include multi-caret editing improvements, faster git branch switching, faster unit test execution, and TypeScript 3.0 support. Editing multiple locations within a file will now …
Oracle launches GraphPipe for deploying machine learning models
Oracle wants to address machine learning problems with its newly announced open-source project GraphPipe. The project is a “dead simple machine learning model serving” solution. “There has been rapid progress in machine learning over the past few years. Today, you can grab one of a handful of frameworks, follow some online tutorials, and have a …
Google updates Firebase to improve app experiences
Google’s mobile development platform Firebase is getting a number of updates today focused on building better apps, improving app quality and growing businesses. “At Firebase, our mission is to help mobile app teams succeed, which means having the capabilities to support companies and teams of all sizes and complexity. In the last couple of years, …
SD Times news digest: Wear OS policy changes, Apache Groovy 2.5.2, and Windows Community Toolkit 4.0
Google has launched a new initiative to improve the quality of Wear OS apps. The currently optional app review process for apps will now become mandatory. This will go into effect on October 1 2018 for new Wear apps and March 4 2019 for existing apps. Common issues that the review looks for is that …
LinkedIn releases new data for finding and recruiting machine learning talent
As artificial intelligence becomes more popular, skills like machine learning and deep learning are becoming more in demand. New data released from LinkedIn shows job recruiters are fighting to find machine learning talent. “Machine learning is one of the most in-demand skills. It can feel like everyone’s competing for the same small talent pool, especially …
Angular launches new solutions for AngularJS migration
Angular has unveiled two new solutions to help with the process of migrating AngularJS applications to modern-day- web development standards. The two solutions are ngMigration Assistant and ngMigration Forum. ngMigration Assistant is a command-line tool that will analyze a AngularJS application and then recommend a migration path for it. The tool provides statistics on the …
CMU, Meltwater and Oxford look to advance data science research
Media intelligence company Meltwater is opening up its artificial intelligence platform to give developers and data scientists real-time insights into business data. Fairhair.ai features a knowledge graph for connecting and organizing internal and external data, access to pre-trained and configurable AI models, and the ability to make data-driven decisions. “We quickly realized our AI platform …
SD Times news digest: SnapLogic’s new capabilities, NodeSource updates, and Infragistics Community Sponsorship Program
SnapLogic has announced new DevOps and automation capabilities, such as integration with GitHub and support for Mesosphere for automating elements of CI/CD. Updates are being made to its Enterprise Integration Cloud solution as well as its Iris AI technologies. According to the company, the new capabilities will enable customers to streamline and accelerate the software …
TLS 1.3 approved and released with improved encryption and speed
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, an integral technology in end-to-end data protection, has been updated to version 1.3 this month with improvements to security, performance, and stripping some insecure optional features from the previous version 1.2. According to the Internet Engineers Task Force (IETF), TLS 1.3 introduces improved encryption during the negotiation handshake stage …
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The Complete Guide to Building a Successful Agile Team
The strength of an Agile team is built on the interplay of team members roles as well. When starting a new project, or making the transition to Agile in the first place, defining those roles is a fundamental part of the process. A successful Agile transition comes down to understanding the nuances and taking an …
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Sharpen Your Competitive Edge With Value Stream Integration
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A Manifesto of Strings Management
A company’s brand is the essence of what that company stands for in terms of emotional, intangible consumer concerns. As we’ve written in SD Times, there is perhaps no more important way to get your message across than with words — both subtle and overt — in an application’s UI. In the past, text hard-coded into an …
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Shift Gears with Shift Left
How to speed up digital app development cycles without compromising quality. Shift Left is one of the biggest buzzwords in digital application development. In this white paper we discuss what brought on that buzz, look at the different definitions of Shift Left and discuss how leading organizations are implementing it. The white paper also discusses …
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NHS PHP Builds Mobile App and Online Patient Booking System in Less Than 7 Weeks
The NHS Practitioner Health Programme (PHP) needed an automated online patient booking system to deliver a fast, easy and confidential care service to doctors and trainees across England. In less than just 7 weeks, using OutSystems low-code development platform, they developed a new mobile app and a fully automated General Practitioner (GP) care system, which …
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How EMC Built and Scaled TheHub to Serve 12,000 Engineers
EMC needed to build a portal to help facilitate an open contribution model for its hundreds of engineering labs around the world. So, the enterprise software vendor turned to OutSystems for help. Using a low-code platform to build its portal might seem counterintuitive for one of the world’s foremost software companies. But the company knew …
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- The latest Helix ALM release integrates with Slack
- HarperDB Brings Geographical Data Analysis and Storage Optimization to Edge Computing
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- M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Leads $8M Codefresh Funding Round; Invests in Kubernetes Ecosystem
- Algolia empowers businesses to optimize customer experience and boost relevance with smarter experimentation
- Gengo.ai debuts world’s fastest service for acquiring advanced multilingual machine-learning training data
- SmartBear unites BDD with test automation to accelerate shifting left
- AdaCore’s GNAT Pro Ada toolchain released for BlackBerry QNX
- Red Hat enhances foundation for digital transformation with latest version of Red Hat Virtualization
- SUSE Ready certification for SUSE CaaS Platform now available for partners’ containerized applications
- TimeXtender Discovery Hub is now Microsoft Azure certified
