The first rule of CodeFightClub is…it’s okay to talk about CodeFightClub. So says Andrew Hathaway, the 18-year-old software engineer from Leeds, U.K., who started the head-to-head online programming arena known as CodeFightClub. In less than a week since its launch, CodeFightClub has signed up more than 100 users via Twitter logins, and they’ve started seven … continue reading
#1. Corefx Corefx is a repository for the recently open-sourced .NET Core, featuring the foundational libraries that make it up. According to the project page, the repository doesn’t currently contain the entire set, but it does include immutable collections, an ECMA-335 metadata reader, SIMD-enabled vector types, and XML. More information about .NET Core is available … continue reading
It has been eight years since Quantitative Software Management (QSM) released its Software Almanac, and now the company is putting out an updated version that includes a new section on agile development. The Software Almanac is a compilation of QSM’s years of research and historical data about software projects designed to provide customers with an … continue reading
Reaction to Microsoft’s announcement yesterday that it was giving up its .NET Core to open source has been swift, and largely positive. Almost as telling as the reaction to the technical portions of the announcement was the reaction to Microsoft’s decision to open-source the .NET stack and enable it to run on Linux or Mac … continue reading
We told you earlier this year that Microsoft was planning to open up its .NET platform with a foundation and multiple open-source projects. The arrival of this project was yesterday, thanks to Microsoft’s release of a preview version of Visual Studio 2015. Also in there was news of Visual Studio Community 2013, a free version … continue reading
Oculus has announced the availability of the Oculus Mobile SDK v0.4.0. “The initial version of the Oculus Mobile SDK is specifically designed for the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition on Note 4, and includes everything you need to get started developing for mobile,” wrote the Oculus VR team on the company’s blog. “We’ve been working … continue reading
Syncfusion, Inc., a developer solutions company, today announced the release of Essential Studio 2014, Volume 3 , the third major release of the year. This release brings a number of new features and updates, including a groundbreaking new product for deploying predictive models developed using environments such as R, SAS, and SPSS with .NET applications. … continue reading
JFrog announces Artifactory’s support for secure, private Docker Registries. The company’s flagship product, Artifactory, fully supports the Docker client, allowing companies to securely store their internal Docker images in a local repository within the organization’s LAN. With comprehensive security features, Artifactory provides fine-grained access control, letting you define exactly who can access images in any … continue reading
Amazon paraded out a cavalcade of new products and services at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today, unveiling several new code-management and deployment tools, the Amazon Aurora MySQL database engine, and more. (Related: Amazon throws cloud support behind PHP) The trio of new AWS code tools is made up of AWS CodeDeploy, AWS … continue reading
Mozilla wants to help advance virtual reality on the Web. The company recently unveiled MozVR.com, “a VR website about VR websites,” according to the company. MozVR is meant to share experimental virtual reality websites, provide resources for developers, and spotlight virtual reality Web projects. “We’ve designed MozVR to be a ‘native VR’ Web experience, made … continue reading
Updates to Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online, Azure and the .NET Framework were announced at a New York City event today that was live-streamed to an estimated 250,000 developers around the world. Public previews of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 are being made available today—along with new cross-platform tools in Visual Studio 2015—while .NET … continue reading
GroundWork, Inc., the leading Unified Monitoring solution for IT operations management and cloud monitoring, releases GroundWork BoxSpy, designed specifically to monitor Docker and other Linux container environments. GroundWork BoxSpy is the most resource-efficient, comprehensive monitoring system available for today’s container technologies. “Docker and containers represent a newer, often better way for developers, lines of business … continue reading
