Trending like a piece of space rock falling from the sky is this open-source project called Meteor: a full-stack JavaScript platform that gives developers a way to build real time mobile and Web apps, entirely in JavaScript form one codebase. With Meteor, developers can “write apps in pure JavaScript, write apps that send data over … continue reading
There’s a lot of emphasis nowadays on having secure passwords, as well as changing passwords often to keep your information and accounts safe from hackers. Despite what some IT professionals have said in the past, one woman with the Federal Trade Commission has suggested that changing passwords less will actually keep systems safer. Lorrie Cranor, … continue reading
Microsoft is expanding its developer toolbox. The company announced R Tools for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 7. R Tools for Visual Studio is being released as a public preview for developers. According to the company, R is one of the most popular statistical and data analysis languages in use, … continue reading
OpenStack has come a long way since NASA and Rackspace first launched it in 2010. Even with recent successes, technology professionals and those who use OpenStack still have a few questions and concerns surrounding the system. Talligent, a provider of cost- and capacity-management solutions for OpenStack and hybrid clouds, announced its 2016 State of OpenStack … continue reading
Google is giving developers an early look into its upcoming Android operating system: Android N. The company said it is giving developers the preview earlier than usual in order to give them more time to address feedback and make changes. “By releasing a ‘work in progress’ build earlier in development, we have more time to … continue reading
Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today introduced Dependency Management, a new feature of its Chef Delivery product, that enables faster and safer developer collaboration by allowing Chef Delivery to know which services and applications in the pipeline depend on one another. With Dependency Management, not only must changes pass local tests, but related, … continue reading
Software analytics company New Relic, Inc. announced today a set of new features across the New Relic Software Analytics Cloud that offer IT operations teams increased visibility, and the ability to diagnose and resolve performance problems quickly. The new features announced today further IT operations teams’ ability to leverage data and analytics, as well as … continue reading
The software developer fills a vital role across all industries, and the Application Developers Alliance wants to make sure developers have the tools and knowledge necessary to succeed. The organization has announced the Developer Workforce Initiative designed to increase the size, expertise and understanding of the workforce. The global effort looks to engage, educate and … continue reading
The two colleges are close enough to share a pizza parlor, but thanks to their collaborative work, maybe that pizza-delivery Web page will load faster for students at Harvard and MIT. Today, teams from the MIT Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and Harvard, released a paper describing Polaris, a method of speeding up page … continue reading
JetBrains provides a variety of tools for every developer, including IDEs for Java, JavaScript, Ruby and others. Now, with its shift to subscriptions, one of its new goals is to move away from one major release per year and focus on continuously delivering value independently of versioning. With this new model, JetBrains has noticed a … continue reading
A new programming solution wants to make it easy for anyone to build native mobile apps. Thunkable is a drag-and-drop programming solution that aims to bring simple design and code techniques to everyone. “Mobile apps are ubiquitous, and people spend so much time on them; yet, developing these apps is limited to a select few,” … continue reading
Melissa Data, a leading provider of global contact data quality and integration solutions, today announced the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the company patent #9,262,475 for proximity matching technology used in its global data quality tools and services. The patent features an algorithm enabling distance criteria to be used in matching customer records, … continue reading
