FileMaker has announced the newest release of its custom app platform, FileMaker 15, which has new features in automation, mobility, performance and security. The new features for mobility include Touch ID support, which allows developers to access their custom apps with their finger, including with 3D Touch support. There are automation and integration features that … continue reading
Electric Cloud, the leader in DevOps Release Automation, today announced the latest release of its industry-leading ElectricFlow DevOps Release Automation platform. The new release supports the company’s mission to advance DevOps in the enterprise by helping customers scale software delivery pipelines and DevOps best practices throughout the organization. “The industry discussion has evolved from ‘how do … continue reading
Progress today announced the latest release of Telerik DevCraft suite, the most complete .NET toolbox for web, mobile and desktop development. The new release introduces extended support for ASP.NET Core 1.0 (incl. MVC6) and .NET Core 1.0, as well as first-class features to help developers build modern and future-proof business apps faster. According to the company’s annual .NET … continue reading
With so many public software repositories and places for documentation, it can be difficult for developers to write and publish credible papers that others can reference. The newly announced Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) wants to tackle this problem of software papers and help authors gain the credibility they deserve. The Journal of Open … continue reading
It’s been two years exactly since the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Google was infringing on Oracle copyrights by implementing Java APIs in Android. Those APIs were replicated in the Apache Harmony project, and then used inside Android. Oracle originally sued Google over the use of these APIs eight months after the company … continue reading
There is a new, free tool by SourceClear that will help teams building with open-source tools called SourceClear Open, and it is delivered as a cloud service. Developers can use the tool to identify what open-source libraries they are using, what vulnerabilities exist, and what needs to be done in order to correct them. SourceClear … continue reading
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a Linux Foundation organization dedicated to advancing the development of cloud native technologies, today announced that Prometheus has been accepted by the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) as an incubated project. An open source monitoring system and alerting toolkit, Prometheus helps companies with metrics and monitoring as they shift toward a … continue reading
NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 — the first gaming GPU based on the company’s new Pascal architecture — providing up to 2x more performance in virtual reality compared to the GeForce GTX TITAN X. Pascal offers massive leaps in performance, memory bandwidth and power efficiency over its predecessor, the high-performance Maxwell architecture. … continue reading
Vector Software, the world’s leading provider of innovative software solutions for embedded software quality, announced today that ActiGraph, a global provider of activity monitoring solutions to the clinical research community, has selected VectorCAST to automate testing activities across the company’s software development lifecycle. ActiGraph’s innovative and extensively validated hardware and software solutions deliver accurate, measurable insight … continue reading
To give developers the tools they need to build complex applications, Wercker, a container-centric developer automation platform, announced the general availability of Wercker Workflows so developers can manage their custom Docker container pipelines for distributed applications and microservices. Users will be able to manage the build and other phases of the development workflow with this … continue reading
Basho Technologies has announced the latest version of its enterprise-grade NoSQL database designed for the Internet of Things, along with an open-source version of the solution. Riak TS version 1.3 features expanded SQL commands, improved API support, and shell command support. When Basho started building Riak TS back in 2014, it was always the company’s … continue reading
There was a blog post earlier this week from Nicolas Bize praising the benefits of teaching BASIC to his son. Specifically, he was speaking of QBasic as the preferred way to teach his son to program. It got me thinking about BASIC, as this was also the language I learned to program on. Here we … continue reading
