Logentries, the leading log management and analytics service built for the cloud, today announced its unlimited log management and analytics service. By allowing users to centralize all of their log data – from any source and in any format – at a fraction of the cost of traditional providers, the Logentries log management service now … continue reading
Altova today announced the commercial availability of MobileTogether, a new, cross-platform mobile development environment. Beta testers of the platform agree: MobileTogether finally makes it practical for businesses to connect to their back-end data and create enterprise mobile solutions for their workforce – regardless of which devices they use – in record time. Here are the … continue reading
To weave a more intuitive mobile Web, individual companies and developers must navigate the various technologies and hurdles in forging those intra-app connections. As senior Android manager at online ticketing platform Eventbrite, Juan Gomez was integral in implementing mobile deep links in the Eventbrite Android app over the past year and a half. He spoke … continue reading
Writing software is hard, but organizing and dealing with people is far harder. In every organization, there are people who make the machine run better, and those that foul it up. The secret to being a good manager is being able to figure out who’s who in a lineup that includes many, many social defects. … continue reading
Google’s guide for successful Google Play apps Google is releasing a guide to provide developers with best practices and tools to help their apps be successful on Google Play. The guide, “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play,” will be split up into seven sections: publishing on Google Play; quality; discoverability and reach; engagement … continue reading
#1: Walkway Walkway is a simplified means of animating SVG elements. Developed by Connor Atherton, this small library re-creates the animations from Polygon’s PlayStation4 review. It creates new Walkway instances with a supplied options object, using .draw to start animating the call on the returned instance, providing an optional callback for when drawing is complete, along … continue reading
Malicious agents can crash a website by implementing a DDoS—a Distributed Denial of Service Attack—against a server. So can sloppy programmers. Take, for example, the National Weather Service’s website, which is operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. On August 29, the service went down, hard, as single rogue Android … continue reading
Facebook today has open-sourced a collection of C++ HTTP libraries and an HTTP server that it calls Proxygen. According to a blog post from Facebook software engineers Alan Frindell and Daniel Sommermann, Proxygen is not designed to replace the C-based Apache or Nginx HTTP servers, but rather to build a high-performance C++ HTTP framework with … continue reading
Xamarin announces free platform for students Mobile developer tool provider Xamarin has announced a new program to give students free access to Xamarin Studio. According to a blog post from Xamarin cofounder and director of developer relations Joseph Hill, Xamarin for Students is accessible to any student enrolled in a degree or diploma-granting course of … continue reading
JetBrains, the creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, have announced the public availability of IntelliJ IDEA 14, a regular yearly update of their award-winning Java IDE for web, enterprise and mobile development. The latest update of the leading IDE introduces multiple across-the-board enhancements to further speed up everyday programming tasks and streamline developers’ … continue reading
ScaleOut Software, a leading provider of in-memory computing software, today announced the release of version 5.2 of its in-memory computing platform; downloads will be available starting Oct. 31. The latest release increases ease of use and deepens support for operational intelligence across ScaleOut’s product offerings, ScaleOut Analytics Server and ScaleOut hServer. Version 5.2 introduces REST … continue reading
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling out top messaging apps on their poor security habits. The organization recently released its Secure Messaging Scorecard, where it evaluated dozens of messaging technologies on their security practices. “The revelations from Edward Snowden confirm that governments are spying on our digital lives, devouring all communications that aren’t protected … continue reading
