Sam Ramji has been doing a lot of research into how enterprises can collaboratively work together on a piece of software. As the CEO of the non-profit Cloud Foundry Foundation, the results of that research have yielded the Cloud Foundry Certified program, which is being launched today. Cloud Foundry Certification is focused on keeping the … continue reading
Adobe has provided an update on where the company is and what’s to come with Project Comet, its new solution for UX designers and developers. Project Comet is designed as an end-to-end solution for creating and prototyping websites and mobile apps. The company expects to release a public beta of the solution early next year, … continue reading
Voted best in class in 18 different software development tool categories by readers of Visual Studio Magazine, Developer Express Inc announced the immediate availability of its newest release, DevExpress v15.2. Built and optimized for projects targeting Windows, the web, iOS and Android, v15.2 delivers the components, tools and technologies software developers need to create high-performance … continue reading
When camera crews prep their interviewees for sound, they ask them a question. The crew at Computerphile, a popular YouTube account, asked guests what their first computer was. The video below shows a mash-up of interviewed computer scientists as they take a trip down memory lane and remember their very first computer. Computers they mention … continue reading
AngularJS fans will have to get used to a lot of new features and rework their applications for the forthcoming release of AngularJS 2.0. This breaking release was deemed necessary to unleash the JavaScript application framework from architectural limitations. The new version, a beta of which was released by Google today, introduces numerous changes that … continue reading
Docker, the company behind the open platform for distributed applications, today announced its Ecosystem Technology Partner (ETP) program for logging, an initiative recognizing companies that have demonstrated integration with the Docker platform to provide organizations with a more comprehensive view of their Dockerized distributed applications. This initiative highlights the companies that collect container and/or Docker … continue reading
JRebel for Android, a productivity tool that enables developers to see their code and resource changes instantly, is now ready to be used. The version 1.0 release includes support for debugger integration, Android Studio 1.0 and later (including 2.0 preview builds), both Android emulators and devices, and incremental install. More information is available here. Red … continue reading
Companies have been ramping up their research on convolutional neural networks or “deep learning,” which is a method of training computers to recognize images and speech. It’s an advancement in technology that, when developed correctly, makes computers almost as capable as humans at the task. Microsoft is one of these companies, and it recently announced … continue reading
IBM today announced it is making cognitive Web services a part of its Watson IoT Foundation with the addition of four API families to the platform. The API families deliver natural-language processing, machine-learning capabilities, text analytics, and video and image analytics, according to the company’s announcement. Those APIs are among the 28 IBM already publishes … continue reading
I’m hoping that, by now, you’ve heard of “Let’s Encrypt,” a free project by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group. The project is currently in public beta, but sometime in the new year, we can expect it to launch for everyone. And the timing couldn’t be better. First, let’s catch everyone up. The EFF, Mozilla, … continue reading
Every piece of software ships with some defects in it, but major gaps in your testing coverage can be disastrous, and they can occur for a variety of reasons. Part of the problem with a typical root-cause analysis is that it comes after the fact. Perhaps the customer has complained, there’s been a big outage, … continue reading
A newly announced non-profit research company wants to make sure artificial intelligence is advancing in a way that is beneficial to humans. OpenAI will work with researchers, institutions and companies to research and deploy new AI technologies that benefit society as a whole. “Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus … continue reading
