Hiring managers say that open-source hiring will increase over the next six months, according to a 2016 Open Source Jobs Report that was released today. The survey was released by Dice and the Linux Foundation, and it is the fifth year they have released the survey. Since open source is an important part of businesses, … continue reading
Kovair Software, one of the leaders in Integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) domain, announces the launch of its enterprise-class software test management product – Kovair iTM – a one stop solution for performing manual and automated testing in conjunction with other tools and development phases across Application Lifecycle stages. Kovair’s Integrated Test Management – iTM … continue reading
Pivotal, the company accelerating digital transformation for enterprises, today announced that it expects to close a Series C financing round highlighted by $253 million in new cash, led by new investor Ford Motor Company, in conjunction with Microsoft and all previous investors GE, EMC and VMware. The deal is expected to close in May 2016, … continue reading
After realizing his code “began to suck,” Lasse Schuirmann created an application called coala to make code analysis easy, while remaining completely modular, extensible and language-independent. Coala provides a user and developer interface, letting developers focus on logic only so that users can focus on content. Schuirmann said there are a lot of tools like … continue reading
This year is marks the fourth annual World Password Day, and yet the old security measure of changing passwords still seems to be troubling both large and small organizations. Today makes it a good day to get updated on the best practices and tips for creating and securing strong passwords. The intention behind World Password … continue reading
Free Code Camp, a popular GitHub project, surveyed more than 15,000 people in its 2016 New Coder Survey, which gives researchers a look at how adults are learning to code. The entire dataset of the surveyor’s’ responses are available on GitHub, and in the next few weeks, Free Code Camp plans on creating a visual … continue reading
Black Duck, the global leader in automated solutions for securing and managing open source software, today announced strategic initiatives to add security expertise and strengthen its research and innovation capabilities. The company has created a five-member Security Advisory Board comprising experienced security executives, and has launched Black Duck Research, a Vancouver-based, applied-research group focused on … continue reading
Progress announced the latest release of the open-source framework NativeScript today, allowing developers to build native mobile apps with JavaScript on all major mobile platforms. NativeScript 2.0, which is open source and backed by Telerik, allows Angular developers to write native mobile applications for Android and iOS using Google’s Angular 2 JavaScript framework. Developers can … continue reading
To help developers and IT professionals find technical content that will help them with deploying services and developing applications, Microsoft announced the preview release of its new documentation services, docs.microsoft.com, which displays content supporting Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility products. Part of the decision to create a new website for content came from reviewing the existing content … continue reading
Quantum computing may still sound like science fiction, but the world’s oldest computer maker has decided to push that fiction into reality. Today, IBM announced that it would begin allowing customers to have access to its quantum computer via its cloud computing offerings. The IBM Cloud will allow developers selected by IBM to access a … continue reading
Today, RisingStack, an enterprise Node.js consulting and development company, announced the public beta program of its SaaS APM solution, Trace. Trace allows developers to automatically localize ongoing issues and debug distributed systems. The tool aims to address some challenges that teams face when working with microservices. These challenges include transaction tracking, monitoring, alerting and visualizing infrastructures. … continue reading
Google’s Go programming language is preparing to advance to version 1.7. Yesterday afternoon, Russ Cox, who works on the Go team at Google, e-mailed the language’s developer list to indicate that the end of this week would be the cutoff point for proposed changes and fixes in the forthcoming 1.7 release. That release should, if … continue reading
