To better enable the mobile workforce, Accenture has made its Accenture CAS software available on Windows 8.1 devices, starting with tablets and followed by mobile phones, providing clients with access to a single platform that spans sales processes and operations for integrated and efficient management – all from their mobile devices. Successful consumer goods companies … continue reading
Developers today are looking seriously at the advantages to be had from free entry-level versions of commercial software—so-called “freemium” software. Developers often see freemiums as great test beds for potential commercial products. This is a trend that looks to be taking hold in the enterprise and developer communities. Freemium, a mix of “free” and “premium” … continue reading
Code.org has revealed a milestone with its computer-science learning platform, Code Studio. The organization announced that more than 1 million girls, along with 1 million African-American and Hispanic students, have enrolled in Code.org’s computer-science education program. “We all know tech has a diversity problem. The problem in computer-science education is even worse. To work to … continue reading
NASA’s been writing mission-critical software for space exploration for decades, and now the organization is turning those guidelines into a coding standard for the software development industry. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) Laboratory for Reliable Software recently published a set of code guidelines, “The Power of Ten—Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code.” The paper’s … continue reading
DBmaestro (www.DBmaestro.com), the pioneer and leading provider of DevOps for Database solutions, today announced the integration of IBM UrbanCode Deploy and DBmaestro’s technologies to bring continuous delivery to the database via enforced change management. This new integration and joint initiative brings together technologies to help clients achieve automation across the entire release management process With … continue reading
BlackBerry is jumping into the wearables space. The company just announced BBM support for a wide range of Android Wear wearable devices. “The integration of BBM to support wearable technology is just one way we’re expanding the capabilities of our portfolio and delivering exciting options for customers to easily access BlackBerry’s cross-platform technologies,” said Herman … continue reading
Syncfusion, Inc., the developer solutions company of choice, today announced the release of Essential Studio 2014 Volume 4, the fourth major release of 2014. In addition to a number of valuable new features and updates for enterprise developers, a complete set of the company’s most popular controls has been added for Android and iOS development. … continue reading
Python creator Guido van Rossum’s proposal for static type-checking annotations is inching closer to reality, and the feature has taken on a new name: type hinting. Back in August, van Rossum published a proposal on the Python mailing list recommending type-checking annotations as a valuable feature for the next version of Python to improve the … continue reading
Logentries, the leading log management and analytics service built for the cloud, has extended its real-time pre-processing engine to now include automated recognition, parsing and analysis for any log format, thereby avoiding complex configuration changes or modifications to existing systems often required by traditional log management systems. From Windows IIS logs, to Cassandra database logs, … continue reading
Now that Android TV has officially launched, Google has announced that it will no longer support Google TV. Existing Google TV apps developed for the platform will continue to work, but most Google TV devices will not support the company’s new platform. “With this shift, we encourage you to transition your living room development efforts … continue reading
The debate on test automation has always been fascinating to me. Huge supporters and practitioners of exploratory testing and other manual testing efforts have often been quick to voice their skepticism of those who touted automation as a golden ticket to “better” testing results. Those on the other side of the fence have wondered how … continue reading
IncrediBuild, the leading solution provider of software development and continuous delivery acceleration technology, today announces the availability of IncrediBuild 6.0, which fully supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Preview. Visual Studio 2015 is Microsoft’s newest version of Visual Studio, supporting cross-platform mobile development, web and cloud development, and offering IDE productivity enhancements. “This release is only … continue reading
