Alpha Software Corporation today announced the industry’s first application development and deployment environment with built-in offline support, without added time or cost. This built-in capability in Alpha Anywhere 3.0 allows a transactional business app to operate effectively while disconnected from a network, and solves what Forrester Research identified in its September 2014 report, The Offline … continue reading
Coverity, Inc., a Synopsys company, today announced the launch of Coverity Code Spotter, a cloud-based service enabling developers to find hard-to-detect defects in Java code. Built on Coverity’s static code analysis technology, Code Spotter is available for free to the software development community during the beta period. Using Code Spotter, developers can upload as much … continue reading
Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of open source database clustering and replication solutions, today announced Continuent Tungsten 3.0, a powerful solution that combines advanced clustering and replication technologies to meet the transaction processing and analytic needs of the entire business. Continuent Tungsten 3.0 enables constant, high-speed and always-available access to data, combined with the ability … continue reading
Azul Systems Inc., the award-winning leader in Java runtime solutions, today announced the immediate general availability of a new major release of its Zing runtime for Java. The new Zing version 14.09 further advances Azul’s ReadyNow!™ technology and adds full support for Java SE 8. ReadyNow! solves the “warm-up” problem prevalent in many Java … continue reading
As agile practices continue to gain momentum, and as delivery deadlines grow shorter, the ability to quickly fix bugs and add features is imperative. Despite the hype, not all organizations have adopted Continuous Integration (CI) yet. While continuous builds and CI practices are becoming more common—and a smaller percentage of companies have embraced Continuous Delivery … continue reading
I once wrote a parking sticker application for an East Coast university. If you had a faculty, staff, student or visitor sticker for the campus, it was processed using my green-screen application, which went online in 1983. The university used the mainframe program with minimal changes for about a decade, until a new client/server parking … continue reading
Docker has said it will use what it learns from users’ Docker Hub search habits to deliver additional language stacks to customers, and as a result the open-source platform is adding 11 of the most searched programming language stacks to Docker Hub Official Repositories. “We determined that the community wants prebuilt stacks of their favorite … continue reading
Have you been Shellshocked? A new website has launched for users to test if their systems have been affected by the Bash vulnerability known as Shellshock. Shellshock is said to pose a bigger threat than OpenSSL’s Heartbleed bug, according to security researchers. “If your system has not updated bash in the last 24 hours, you’re … continue reading
#1. chromeos-apk Google has been taking their time bringing Android apps to the Chrome Web store, but for those who want to run Android apps on desktop PCs, they no longer have to wait for Google. Created by Vlad Filippov, chromeos-apk is a command-line tool that makes it possible to run any Android application on … continue reading
Embedded developers now have a new option when choosing operating systems: no OS. SynthOS is a free-to-use service that builds C code specifically designed to handle all the operating system tasks an embedded developer encounters. Embedded developers can upload their code and have it returned with a complete set of C that handles mutexes and … continue reading
The Department of Homeland Security’s United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning about a vulnerability affecting Unix-based operating systems. The vulnerability, dubbed Shellshock, was discovered in the Bourne-Again Shell, also known as Bash. Bash is a popular Linux and Unix shell, and according to security researchers, the newly revealed bug could … continue reading
Harvard’s DIY soft robotics toolkit A Harvard University lab is making it possible for everyone to build “soft” robots. (Soft robots are modeled after biological systems and use soft, flexible materials. They can be used in jobs that interact with humans, such as helping with daily activities, according to the Harvard Biodesign Lab.) The lab … continue reading
