The team at JetBrains recently announced several new updates coming to JetBrains Academy. These updates are geared towards improving the platform’s administrative functionality, allowing users to manage teams and see how effectively each member is learning, all from one place. With this, users are enabled to add new members to their teams as well as … continue reading
Today, IBM unveiled new developments in order to help users speed up transformation with a series of new capabilities intended to modernize apps across hybrid cloud environments. Included among these are plans to deliver IBM Z as-a-service on IBM Cloud. This release is geared towards making the lives of developers easier, bringing them: Increased speed … continue reading
This week, Microsoft released the February 2022 Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework. This release does not contain any security improvements. For the most recent security updates, see here. With this, several reliability and quality improvement have been made, including: CLR: Addresses rare crashes and hangs that can appear in cases where GC occurs … continue reading
The availability of the SharePoint Framework 1.14 Release Candidate brings users updates for Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint Online experiences. The general availability of SharePoint Framework 1.14 is set for mid-February with no planned adjustments. Microsoft encourages users to submit any feedback on the Release Candidate using the sp-dev-docs issue list. Key features of … continue reading
The Android development team has announced the release of UI toolkit Jetpack Compose version 1.1. This release comes with several new features, such as improved focus handling, ImageVector caching, touch target sizing, and support for Android 12 stretch overscroll. Additionally, Compose 1.1 graduates several experimental APIs to stable as well as supports newer versions of … continue reading
Tricentis, an organization focused on test automation for modern cloud and enterprise applications, today announced that it has acquired the AI-based SaaS test automation platform, Testim. This combination is aimed to simplify Tricentis’ test automation, allowing users to more easily create end-to-end tests. “We are very excited to join Tricentis,” said Oren Rubin, founder and … continue reading
The team at the JavaScript library Vue.js yesterday announced that Vue 3 is the new default version. To see what changes need to happen before switching to Vue 3, see the Potential Required Actions. With this change, several aspects of Vue have been revamped, such as: More ergonomic Composition API syntax via <script setup> Improved … continue reading
The team at Google recently announced the first production release of Flutter support for Windows as an app target. This comes as an expansion to Flutter, the cross-platform UI development kit, enabling Windows developers to experience the same productivity benefits as mobile developers. With this, Flutter has been tailored specifically for Windows applications, combining a … continue reading
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been a useful tool for many organizations. Despite the initial fear that it would grow to take over the jobs of developers, many have come to see that RPA and automation only function well when they work in tandem with developers. According to Yishai Beeri, growth technologies lead at LinearB, … continue reading
Microsoft recently announced that the first preview release of Windows Terminal of 2022 is here. Interested users can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub repository. With this release, the minimum supported version of Windows 10 for Windows Terminal 1.13+ is now 19041 (20H1). The new features … continue reading
Perforce Software, provider of solutions that help enterprises with productivity, visibility, and scaling through the software development lifecycle, today announced a new feature in BlazeMeter, BlazeMeter Test Data. With this addition, testers and developers can build synthetic test data for functional performance tests and virtual services. This test data can then be used with several … continue reading
Contrast Security has announced that it is entering into a partnership with GitHub. With this comes the availability of Contrast Security’s suite of GitHub Actions that simplifies the process for developers to deliver code with no security vulnerabilities. Contrast’s GitHub Actions include four features that work to embed security into existing value streams. These actions … continue reading
