The German software developer SoftMaker today released the 2019 version of its PDF editor, FlexiPDF. The program allows users to edit PDF files as easily as with a classic word processor: FlexiPDF masters the processing of text, graphics and drawings, as well as the export of PDF files to various target formats. Numerous new features … continue reading
To help its customers ensure the open-source software they use doesn’t pose licensing or vulnerability risks, CAST Software this week announced a partnership with Software Heritage under which CAST will create a provenance index of the heritage’s repository. RELATED CONTENT: Preserving software’s legacy The partnership is a result from CAST’s acquisition last fall of Antelink, a … continue reading
Justin Meiners, a software engineer for the blockchain software development company Pyrofex, took his own experiences to come up with three fundamental skills he finds programmers are too often missing. “How can a programmer work for 10 or 20 years and never learn to write good code? So often they need close supervision to ensure … continue reading
Headquartered in the UK, Altia-ABM develops innovative software to facilitate investigations and manage covert operations. U.S.-based dtSearch Corp. provides document filters to parse a wide variety of data formats and text retrieval to instantly search terabytes of data. Altia-ABM products embedding the dtSearch Engine span UK police forces, local and central government agencies. Altia-ABM is … continue reading
Google is dedicating a new top-level domain (TLD) to the people who helped build the web: developers. With .dev, developers will be able to build communities, learn new technology and showcase their projects. “Developers, designers, writers and architects: you built the web. You make it possible for the billions of people online today to do … continue reading
Express Logic, provider of the comprehensive X-Ware IoT Platform powered by the popular ThreadX real-time operating system (RTOS), today announced that its deeply embedded GUIX graphical user interface run-time solution has achieved the highest level of safety certification for the rigorous International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61508 SIL 4, IEC 62304 Class C, ISO 26262 ASIL D, and EN … continue reading
Parasoft has announced the latest release of its .NET development testing solution. Parasoft dotTEST 10.4.1 expands support for security coding standards and adds a new Security Compliance Pack for compliance reporting for OWASP, CWE, and UL-2900. “Many of today’s enterprise applications rely on the .NET platform,” said Mark Lambert, VP of Products at Parasoft. “This … continue reading
InterVision today announced new services, personnel and tools to enhance its Digital Transformation (DX) practice. Backed by an expert team of innovation consultants, technical architects, and business analysts, InterVision’s DX practice provides business leaders with a holistic roadmap incorporating business vision, IT infrastructure, change management and ongoing architectural guidance to help enable and sustain a competitive … continue reading
Infragistics, a worldwide leader in providing tools and solutions to accelerate design, development and collaboration, announced the launch of Infragistics Ignite UI for React today. With this release, Infragistics continues to deliver on their roadmap and bring best-of-breed UX & UI tools to the market focusing on React developers building modern experiences for Web and … continue reading
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve and grow, so must the hardware we use to power AI. During his keynote address at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week, Facebook vice president and chief AI scientist Yann LeCun discussed the next step for reaching AI’s potential: shifting away from GPUs and moving more towards dedicated chips. … continue reading
The Bootstrap team is nearing its mission to completely remove jQuery from its framework in favor of JavaScript. Bootstrap is an open-source framework for responsive mobile solutions on the web. The team recently released version 4.3 of the framework with its plans to remove jQuery. “The cat is out of the bag—we’re dropping our largest … continue reading
GitHub is improving collaboration between developers with the introduction of draft pull requests. According to GitHub, draft pull requests enable developers to create clear tags when working on a work in progress. Draft pull requests are styled differently than normal ones, making it clear that a project is in a draft state. In addition, merging … continue reading
