In an effort to improve open-source skills in the IT sector, the University of Canberra and Instaclustr have formed the Open Source Institute (OpenSI). OpenSI will focus on open source training, certification, and research and development. The first online course offered through OpenSI will be Developer Training and Certification for the event streaming platform Apache … continue reading
Microsoft recently announced the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 17.1. This release includes new features that align with themes of Visual Studio 2022, such as productivity. New Git productivity features will make day-to-day work much easier, according to Microsoft. Developers will now be able to compare the current branch in a repository with other … continue reading
ConnectALL Wednesday gave a sneak peek into its forthcoming Designer tool that visualizes work from idea through delivery and can illuminate areas where waste and non-value work cost organizations time and money. The sneak peek was demonstrated during an SD Times Live! talk by ConnectALL’s COO and president Lance Knight and principal solutions architect Johnathan … continue reading
Remote work was once considered a luxury to many, but in 2020, it became a necessity for a large portion of the workforce, as the scary and unknown COVID-19 virus sickened and even took the lives of so many people around the world. Some workers were able to thrive in a remote setting, while others … continue reading
Mattermost is a platform that enables collaboration throughout the software development life cycle. It offers integrations with several other tools — such as GitHub, Jira, and PagerDuty — so that developers can collaborate without needing to switch between different applications. According to the Mattermost team, nearly 40% of the work week on average is wasted … continue reading
As the workplace we once knew changed over the past two years, so did the way DevOps teams worked. While the initial goal of DevOps was to facilitate greater collaboration between developers and operations teams, a lot of recent focus has been on how DevOps teams can measure the value they are providing to the … continue reading
This year, there were two major releases of Java — Java 16 and Java 17. Java 17 is also a long-term support (LTS) release, the last of which was Java 11. The next LTS release of Java will be in 2023 with Java 21. This will change the LTS release cadence from three to two … continue reading
At the start of the year, we declared that 2021 would be the year of low code. It turned out to be a fairly accurate prediction. Low code was used throughout the past two years by small businesses needing to quickly open online storefronts, companies needing to create tooling to support remote workers, and by … continue reading
The latest version of the Uno Platform was unveiled at UnoConf. Uno is a UI platform that uses C# and WinUI and can be used with single-codebase applications across Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android, and Linux. One major addition in Uno Platform 4.0 is Uno Extensions, which is based on Microsoft Extensions, which are capabilities … continue reading
While we’re not quite fully there yet, we may not be too far away from AI being a major part of the development process, helping developers eliminate some of the more mundane tasks of coding by suggesting code, autocompleting code, and making other useful suggestions. According to Chandra Kalle, VP of engineering at LeanTaaS, a … continue reading
User management company Frontegg has announced that it raised $25 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Insight Partners, and Pitango First and Global Founders Capital also participated. The company will use the new funds to scale its platform and accelerate global expansion across the market. “In the product-led era, the ever-evolving … continue reading
JetBrains has unveiled a preview of its new lightweight IDE, Fleet. The new IDE is built to be simple and smart so that developers can get started with it without too much additional configuration required. Fleet is a polyglot editor, meaning that it can be used as a single IDE for all languages, rather than … continue reading
