SD Times Blog: App lets you control Google Glass with your mind

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had the powers of Marvel’s Charles Xavier and you could control someone else’s mind? If someone was annoying you, you could just make him or her walk away. Mind control is a very attractive power, but it is also a scary thought. Sure, it would be nice if you … continue reading

Top 5 projects trending on GitHub this week

#1: Awesome Go   Following in the footsteps of Awesome PHP and Awesome Sysadmin, feature in a previous GitHub Top 5 , is a list, curated by Thiago Avelino of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software. From databases, machine learning and testing to third-party APIs, web frameworks and tools, Awesome Go has something for all your Go programming needs. #2: Awesome Python … continue reading

Zeichick’s Take: Microsoft needs to do more than innovate

Microsoft has evolved considerably from its early days selling developer tools, or its era focusing on Windows and Office, or its run as a server software maker, or its first iteration as a cloud/online services company. Despite all the myriad changes, it’s always been true that Microsoft does not excel at innovation. In fact, when … continue reading

SD Times Blog: Wise up with some Programmer’s Proverbs

“Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime.” – programmer Chirag Gude Programmers in search of some higher wisdom in pursuit of better code need not trek to a temple atop a Tibetan mountain. … continue reading

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s employee memo: “We will reinvent productivity”

To mark the start of the next fiscal year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent out a lengthy memo to employees laying out, among other things, a proposed reorganization of the company, a renewed focus on devices and services and a call to action to “reinvent productivity.” The memo, entitled “Bold Ambition & Our Core,” talks … continue reading

SD Times news digest: July 10, 2014—Kubernetes, Mathematica 10 and patent trolls

 IBM, Docker, Microsoft, Red Hat & others join Google’s open-source Kubernetes container project  Kubernetes, the recently open-sourced cloud container automation project maintained by Google Cloud Platform and IT automation and configuration management provider SaltStack, is gaining the support of IBM, Docker, Microsoft, Red Hat and others joining the Kubernetes community. Google Cloud Platform SVP Urs … continue reading

New Relic Announces General Availability of Real-Time Analytics Platform New Relic Insights

SAN FRANCISCO– July 10, 2014 – Software analytics company New Relic today announced the general availability of New Relic Insights, a real-time analytics platform that collects, stores and presents valuable data directly from organizations’ software, and transforms the data into insights about their customers, applications and the business. Delivered as a cloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering built atop New Relic’s … continue reading

Microsoft releases Visual Studio “14” CTP 2

Just over a month after the release of CTP 1, Microsoft has officially released another community technology preview of the next version of Visual Studio, codenamed “14.” Visual Studio director of program management John Montgomery announced the release of Visual Studio “14” CTP 2 in a blog post, explaining that the new preview, which Microsoft … continue reading

WebRTC specifications advance

About a year ago we told you that WebRTC, an open project enabling real-time communication on web browsers, was the future of enterprise communication. Bringing real-time audio and video communication to the browser opens up myriad possibilities for instantaneous connection and data exchange the likes of which Skype and FaceTime haven’t even scratched the surface.Yet before … continue reading

SD Times news digest: July 9, 2014—Temporary workaround for Android Wear and a browser-based IDE

Google offers temporary workaround for Android Wear bugGoogle’s wearable platform, Android Wear, is missing a way for users to install paid apps on their devices. Users can see the apps in the store but can’t install them. To rectify this problem, Google has issued a temporary workaround to enable paid apps on Android Wear. Until … continue reading

Guest View: Why testing metrics are critical to the QA process

Test metrics are an integral part of the QA process. They provide granular information that helps engineers accurately assess the quality of software builds and figure out what is and isn’t working in the testing process. Metrics are the building blocks of progress and improvement in software creation. Examples of test metrics and what they … continue reading

First release of KDE Frameworks 5

Frameworks 5 is the next generation of KDE libraries, modularized and optimized for easy integration in Qt applications … continue reading

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