The U.S. Army has released its first piece of open-source software. Dshell, this week’s GitHub Project of the Week, is an extensible network forensic analysis framework from the “cyber defenders” at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The “forensic analysis” code has been in use for close to five years within the military to help … continue reading
The rise of cloud computing platforms forces developers to contend with managing hundreds of virtualized servers at a time. But one startup wants to make deployment as simple and ubiquitous a process as third-party and open-source tools have rendered writing and building code. Distelli is an agent-based SaaS platform that downloads to any kind of … continue reading
As the momentum behind connected cars and automotive software builds, the World Wide Web Consortium has decided to make sure the Web is prepared for this new generation of integrated applications. The W3C has announced a new Automotive Working Group to standardize secure Web access to vehicle data. The group will focus on the use … continue reading
Rear Admiral Grace “Amazing Grace” Hopper passed away in 1992, but the WWII veteran, pioneering computer scientist and original COBOL programming language developer inspires women in computer science to this day, through the Grace Hopper Conference, Grace Hopper Open Source Day, and even a forthcoming documentary on her life. (Related: Filmmakers crowdfund Grace Hopper documentary) … continue reading
Microsoft announced it has released the source code for the .NET Core Common Language Runtime (CLR) as an open-source GitHub repository. The open-source repository includes the full CoreCLR, known as the execution engine for .NET Core. The CoreCLR implementation includes the RyuJIT compiler, .NET garbage collection, the .NET native interoperability feature, and other .NET runtime … continue reading
MongoDB has announced version 3.0 of its open-source NoSQL database, calling it a “landmark release” in terms of performance, flexibility, management capabilities and operating cost. MongoDB cofounder and CTO Eliot Horowitz announced MongoDB 3.0 in a blog post, detailing the new WiredTiger storage engine and enhancements to the original storage engine; a revamped production architecture … continue reading
Developing in Visual Studio is more complicated than it used to be. As Visual Studio 2015 approaches, Apache Cordova tools and open-source efforts around the .NET ecosystem open an array of new cross-platform and cross-OS possibilities for Windows developers looking to branch out across devices and onto Linux and Mac. As Microsoft’s flagship IDE grows … continue reading
During one of the most competitive, entertaining and ultimately unbelievable Super Bowls in NFL history, advertisers and websites played their own game of dueling performance metrics and response times. APM software provider Dynatrace monitored the brand websites advertising during the big game, and in the moment of truth revealed which stood up to the ultimate … continue reading
For the advertisers paying US$4.5 million a pop for a 30-second Super Bowl spot, a year’s marketing budget could be wasted if the company’s website can’t handle the influx in traffic. Application performance management software provider Dynatrace is monitoring the Web and mobile site performance of a litany of major brands that purchased ads well … continue reading
Hadoop has, for the most part, moved beyond the proof-of-concept phase and the initial chasm of adoption. More and more organizations are putting the open-source framework to work on mountains of complex Big Data. The next step in Hadoop’s evolution is getting a handle on governance. To that end, Hortonworks—the enterprise data platform provider and … continue reading
YouTube has announced it now supports HTML5 video by default on the Web, in favor of traditional Flash support. The popular video streaming and sharing platform, owned by Google, published a blog post announcing that HTML5 is now enabled by default in Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari 8 and beta versions of Firefox. In addition … continue reading
Apple has announced record earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2015, with revenue of US$74.6 billion and a net profit of $18 billion, or $3.06 per diluted share. Apple’s Q1 profit beat out Russian oil and gas conglomerate Gazprom’s Q1 2011 net profit of $16.24 billion for the highest quarterly profit of all time. … continue reading
