Git 2.1 has been released, adding a large number of new features in what is considered to be a minor release. A few months after Git 2.0, this incremental release of the source-code-management and revision-control system rolls out improvements across the entire Git system, from the UI and workflows to performance, implementation and bug fixes. … continue reading
VMware yesterday announced a new effort to sell its software pre-installed on a new server form factor, and to bring new partners like Docker onto its platform. VMware’s EVO:RAIL system is a new take on server hardware based on the VMware stack. Working with hardware vendors like EMC, these servers will come pre-installed with VMware … continue reading
OpenMP 4.0 has made its way into the Intel compiler set. The company today announced the release of the Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 family, which includes three different bundles of tools for developers working in C, C++ and FORTRAN. With the introduction of support for OpenMP 4.0 comes the ability to apply explicit vector … continue reading
PHP has been a staple of Web development for longer than Wikipedia’s existence. But the language has rarely received much love from the software development community due to its less bureaucratic governing body and reputation for being copy/paste friendly. But the PHP community is still growing, as is evidenced by new offerings from Amazon and … continue reading
Electric Cloud, the leader in enterprise Continuous Delivery, today announced the availability of the Enterprise DevOps Cloud solution for VMware vCloud® AirTM. Now, developers and IT operations teams have a common platform that brings accelerated software delivery to organizations using public, private or hybrid cloud services from industry leader VMware. The solution automates software build, … continue reading
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today introduced updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, the latest version of its enterprise-ready OpenStack platform built with the latest Icehouse community release. An updated, robust installer and new high availability capabilities are designed to enable devops and IT administrators to … continue reading
Software licensing models are continually evolving to accommodate new technologies and business models. Over the past 15 years alone, licensing terms have expanded to take into consideration the mobile population, virtualized servers, multicore processors, subscription models, and the digital delivery of products. Metered usage may represent the next wave of change as the number of … continue reading
Soon you’ll have to bow before your robot overlords. New research from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) revealed that workers actually favor robots having control over human responsibilities. “In our research we were seeking to find that sweet spot for ensuring that the human workforce is both satisfied and productive,” says project … continue reading
It seems the gift-giving season each year starts earlier and earlier. Walk into a store in January and see Valentine’s Day promotions. Go to an online retail site in late September, and you’ll see Christmas/Chanukah promotions. So, if you’re writing applications at a retail outfit that counts on online revenue, your planning, development and testing … continue reading
Docker 1.2 has been released, adding restart policies and improvements to Docker Engine, Docker Hub and Docker documentation. (Related: Docker does deployment reconstruction) Docker core engineer Victor Vieux announced the release in a blog post detailing the latest updates and improvements to the application container solution. The most significant new feature is restart policies, which … continue reading
Robot brain learns concepts by searching Internet Computer scientists have developed a large-scale computational system that learns from resources that are publicly available on the Internet. Robo Brain is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals, and will store the information in a … continue reading
Nevron is proud to announce the availability of Nevron Open Vision for .NET 2014.1 , which is here to ease the work of all .NET developers like never before! With the Nevron Open Vision for .NET 2014.1 release, Nevron has solidified its position as the leading provider of text and document processing components for .NET. … continue reading
