It’s 2 AM, just hours before development is set to begin on your new multimillion-dollar project. While everyone else is sleeping, you’re wide-awake in a cold sweat. “Is that framework we selected really the right one?” you’re wondering. “Will we regret it later?” Sound familiar? Rest assured, you’re not alone! New JavaScript frameworks are under … continue reading
A new report from TVP Strategy suggests that DevOps is failing to mitigate security flaws in code quality. The research also suggests ways for development teams to efficiently add automated security to continuous testing, without changing the role of the developer. TVP Strategy, formerly known as The Virtualization Practice, is an analyst organization that reports … continue reading
Hyperloop won’t be done for a few years. That is, the mass transit system named Hyperloop won’t be ready for many years. Appcelerator’s Hyperloop, on the other hand, is available today in Appcelerator 5.4. This addition to the Titanium SDK allows developers to access all APIs on iOS and Android directly from JavaScript. Jeff Haynie, … continue reading
Developers and hackers that want to make their side projects profitable or well-known now have a new platform to try: Indie Hackers. It allows individuals to learn how other developers are “writing their own paychecks.” Indie Hackers is a platform that is focused on community and openness, and was recently launched and created by recent … continue reading
Kony, Inc., a leading enterprise mobility company, today announced enhanced support for applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and updates to its offerings in AWS Marketplace. This includes new support for AWS Mobile and IoT offerings that make it easier and faster for mobile app developers using Kony MobileFabric to develop, build and deploy … continue reading
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SGI, a global leader in high-performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management, for $7.75 per share in cash, a transaction valued at approximately $275 million, net of cash and debt. SGI products and services are used for high-performance computing (HPC) … continue reading
Rocket Software, Inc. announced the availability of 30 free open source tools and languages for IBM z Systems mainframes that allow programmers to work on mainframe computers without knowing COBOL or assembly language. These ported versions of popular development tools and programming languages have been modified to operate on IBM z13 and z13s systems, allowing developers to … continue reading
This week’s GitHub project wants to provide developers with an alternative version to commercial application performance monitoring (APM) tools. InspectIT is an open-source APM tool for monitoring and preventing problems in Java EE apps for free. “InspectIT is based on an application-centric, business-focused approach, where each technical request is mapped to an application and to … continue reading
IBM Watson and Columbus Collaboratory, an analytics and cybersecurity company, want to make it easier for data scientists to access and build solutions using the R programming language with IBM Watson. The organizations have unveiled CognizeR, an open-source R extension. “R is decidedly the most popular language used by data scientists for statistical and analytics … continue reading
Rackspace is hoping security will draw more enterprises to its OpenStack offerings. The company has announced plans to extend its Rackspace Managed Security platform to support Microsoft Azure. The platform already supports Rackspace’s Dedicated and VMware environments, as well as Amazon Web Services. The end goal is to provide a method of managing security across multiple environments … continue reading
Google is giving Android developers new ways to stay informed about their apps. The company is updating the Google Play Developer Console app with new features for reviews and experiments. “With over one million apps published through the Google Play Developer Console, we know how important it is to publish with confidence, acquire users, learn … continue reading
Google is giving developers the Python support they have been asking for. The company has announced the Python runtime for the Google App Engine Flexible Environment with Python 3.4 and 2.7 support. “Developers running Python on Google App Engine have long asked for support for Python 3 and third-party Python packages,” Amir Ruzrokh, product manager … continue reading
