API software startup Apigee has filed for an initial public offering, which the company expects will be valued at US$86.3 million. Apigee’s API tools and enterprise management platform are in use by customers such as Adobe, AT&T, Dell and eBay. Apigee began the IPO process this January, and will be listed in the stock exchange … continue reading
Couchbase, Inc. today introduced breakthrough scaling technology that substantially increases application performance and dramatically reduces costs. Multi-Dimensional Scaling provides the option to isolate database query, index and data services, so that hardware resources can be independently assigned and optimized on a per node basis, as application requirements change. “Unlike MongoDB, Oracle, Cassandra, and other databases … continue reading
Dynamsoft’s software development kit (SDK) for creating document scanning modules within browsers now includes built-in functionality for image captures from webcams. This adds to recently built-in 1D barcode reading capabilities. As a result, the Dynamic Web TWAIN version 10.2 SDK is now amongst the most comprehensive available for developing complete document management solutions. The upgraded … continue reading
The SD Times March Developer Madness Sweet 16 is in full swing. We pick up action in the Platforms region with #4 iOS vs. #8 NoSQL. Vote now and advance one to the Elite 8! SD Times March Developer Madness-Sweet 16: #8 NoSQL vs. #4 iOS Public OpinionPoll Results In the Programming region’s Sweet 16 matchups, … continue reading
By now you’ve probably heard of Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road. When he was apprehended last year in San Francisco and charged with running the world’s largest online drug and illegal goods marketplace, he was at a local library using the wireless network to log in to his black market business. Ulbricht is still claiming … continue reading
Just when it seemed Amazon’s drone delivery service would never take off in American skies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a statement giving Amazon the green light to test its drones. Amazon has been looking for consent to develop its Prime Air delivery solution in the United States, designed to deliver packages within 30 … continue reading
While HTML5, finally standardized, is taking its place in the Web development hierarchy, developers are already looking ahead to HTML6. This is what we might call the radical idea stage. Still largely in its conceptual and debate phase, HTML6 is foundationally similar to HTML, but with XML-like namespaces. Among the many features and experimental functionality … continue reading
A new standard adopted by Object Management Group (OMG) aims to make it easier to develop front-end applications. The Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) is a visual modeling language that is designed to express a front-end application’s content, interface composition, user interaction and control behavior. “Front-end design of Web applications is a complex and multidisciplinary … continue reading
Google has launched the Places API for Android as well as a beta program for the Places API for iOS. The release of these APIs is meant to provide developers with the ability to enhance their mobile experiences through device location signals. “People don’t think of their location in terms of coordinates on a map. … continue reading
To meet the ongoing demands of developers for fast, reliable, scalable and secure connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server, JNetDirect Incorporated today announced the release of JSQLConnect 8. JSQLConnect is a JDBC driver that’s compatible with SQL Server 2014 and all previous versions of SQL Server and is one of the most popular drivers, with the … continue reading
GrapeCity, the largest component solution provider in the Microsoft Visual Studio Partner Ecosystem, has announced the first 2015 release of its ComponentOne Studio product. GrapeCity ComponentOne Studio is a world-renowned suite of data management, data visualization, scheduling, input, editing, navigation, reporting and document generation and layout controls for Microsoft Visual Studio. The v1 release of … continue reading
This week’s GitHub project aims to provide an easy, fast and painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. Go Git Service, or Gogs, is a self-hosted Git service that is written in the Go programming language. “Officially, our purpose is to take the advantage of Go building everything into one binary to set … continue reading
