Applause, the 360° app quality company, today announced that it is partnering with messageLOUD, the mobile text-reading service that reads messages and email aloud, to ensure that messageLOUD works under real-world conditions and keeps drivers who need to take incoming messages, safe. messageLOUD utilizes software testers from Applause’s global community to ensure high-quality, accurate messageLOUD … continue reading
Dynamsoft’s Barcode Reader software development kit (SDK) now includes support for the Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) language so developers can easily enable barcode reading from images and PDFs in their PHP applications. This builds upon existing support for .NET web applications and various desktop application languages. The updated Barcode Reader 4.1 SDK has built-in support for … continue reading
Interviews are always nerve-wracking, tedious, and for the most part uneventful, especially if you are applying to a ton of jobs. And it’s no different for developers going through the process. You would think with a market that has such a high demand for employees like the software development industry that finding a job would … continue reading
GitHub has done much when it comes to making open-source software and code accessible to users, but there are still areas where developers think the repository could improve. In an open letter to GitHub, developers from projects like jQuery, Meteor, PhantomJS, React Native and Selenium have detailed their most frequent problems with GitHub, along with … continue reading
Yesterday, Baidu Research’s Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL) released open-source code called Warp-CTC to GitHub. The goal is for this code to be used in the machine learning community. Warp-CTC is a tool that can plug into existing machine learning frameworks to speed up the development of artificial intelligence, and according to SVAIL, it will … continue reading
jQuery is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and to commemorate that it is announcing the beta release of jQuery 3.0. Version 3.0 is the first major release from jQuery in years. In July, the jQuery team announced the alpha version with jQuery Compat 3.0, but due to Microsoft dropping support for IE8, IE9 and IE10, it … continue reading
IBM today announced that it has acquired IRIS Analytics, a privately held company specializing in real-time analytics to help combat payment fraud. Only 16 percent of banks polled in a recent global IBM Institute of Business Value study could detect fraud as it is attempted. Once new schemes were identified and confirmed, it is estimated … continue reading
Want your development efforts to be swift, strategic and super productive? That is exactly what Ninja, a full stack Web framework for Java, aims to help developers do. “Doesn’t matter if you build huge enterprise apps or small RESTful JSON microservices, Ninja provides everything you need to get productive at once: development, testing, deployment, refactoring … continue reading
Over the past couple of years, mobile has become a big part of companies’ business strategies, and according to a recent report, it’s starting to pay off. Red Hat has released its mobile maturity survey, which revealed that 74% of IT decision-makers who are using key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure their mobile app success … continue reading
While this may not be the droid you’re looking for, it’s certainly worth taking a gander at. An IBM employee has used the company’s Node-RED and Bluemix Internet of Things tools to add mental controls to a Sphero BB-8 robotic toy. Joshua Carr, lead developer at IBM working on Internet of Things projects, decided a … continue reading
This week, JetBrains announced a new project that has been in the works for a while. Called Project Rider, it’s a cross-platform C# IDE, based on the IntelliJ Platform and using ReSharper technology. The IDE includes functionality that will be familiar to those that have used ReSharper and IntelliJ-based IDEs, like Quick Fixes, Inspections, and … continue reading
IBM today announced that it has once again topped the list of annual U.S. patent recipients, receiving 7,355 patents in 2015, marking the 23rd consecutive year of leadership. IBM’s 2015 patent results represent a diverse range of inventions as well as a strong and growing focus on cognitive solutions and the cloud platform as the … continue reading
