Deep linking is starting to gain some momentum, and Google wants to make sure its developers are successfully deep linking their Android apps. “We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from developers and seen a lot of implementations gone right, and others that were good learning experiences since we opened up App Indexing back in June,” … continue reading
Sonargraph-Explorer is a new and innovative light-weight static analysis tool that supports the newest language standards of Java, C# and C/C++. The product runs on Windows, Linux and Mac-OS. Major use cases are: • Software architecture and quality assessments • Reverse engineering of legacy code bases • Code comprehension • Structural and architectural visualization • … continue reading
Microsoft has announced plans to tweak the pricing and licensing of its ALM offerings to improve enterprise development teams’ bottom lines. Brian Harry, Microsoft corporate vice president of the Developer Division, revealed that Microsoft will roll out pricing changes for VS Online in the next month or so, and in the next on-prem release of … continue reading
iRobot has unveiled a new robot designed for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. Based off the company’s Roomba, Create 2 features a preassembled robot platform to give educators, students and developers an affordable source to learn the fundamentals of robotics, computer science and engineering. “As a global leader in robotics technology, iRobot believes … continue reading
The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, an open industry consortium delivering standards for simpler, stronger authentication, today published final 1.0 drafts of its two specifications – Universal Authentication Framework (UAF) and Universal 2nd Factor (U2F). Members of the FIDO Alliance comprise device manufacturers, online service providers and enterprises, who can now implement and broadly commercialize … continue reading
3Scale, the leading API management platform, today announced the launch of APIcast, a cloud-hosted API gateway (or proxy) that makes it fast and simple to launch an API via 3scale’s API management platform. 3scale APIcast reduces the time to get an API up and running to only a few clicks, and without the need to … continue reading
After releasing five popular open-source technologies, HashiCorp is tying them all together with Atlas—a commercial DevOps and application-delivery product for developing, deploying, and maintaining applications on any infrastructure. Described in HashiCorp’s news release as an AWS-style application delivery SaaS for any public or private data center, Atlas unifies the company’s open-source projects (Vagrant, Packer, Serf, … continue reading
JetBrains, a renowned vendor of professional tools for software developers, today announced the general availability of Upsource 1.0, a new web-based team collaboration tool that helps developers read, browse and review code maintained in Git, Mercurial, Subversion and/or Perforce repositories. Both a repository browser and a code review tool, Upsource 1.0 provides instant read access … continue reading
Microsoft has released details about Visual Basic 14, the new version of Visual Basic set to ship with Visual Studio 2015. According to a blog post from Visual Basic program manager Lucian Wischik, Visual Basic is skipping from 12 to 14 to keep in line with Visual Studio’s numbering. The new VB language features are … continue reading
Parasoft announced today the release of Development Testing Platform (DTP) 5.1, which eliminates the business risk of faulty software by consistently applying software quality practices throughout the SDLC. The latest version of DTP further enables your software quality efforts to evolve from automated to continuous—delivering a platform for defect prevention and the uniform measurement of … continue reading
Apple’s Swift programming language and the R statistical language are the two candidates for TIOBE’s programming language of the year award, according to the TIOBE index for December. In the October TIOBE programming community index, Google Dart had cracked the Top 20 languages, and Java and C++ popularity had hit all-time lows. This time around, … continue reading
Samsung’s first development kit for its wearable virtual reality device, powered by Oculus, is now available. “With Gear VR Innovator Edition, Samsung is putting the device in the hands of creators to craft amazing experiences as we define this new mobile category together,” said Justin Denison, vice president of product strategy and marketing at Samsung. … continue reading
