In the eight years since its initial release, jQuery has become the foundation of the modern Web. The popular cross-platform library has become bundled and intertwined with countless websites, developer tools and with JavaScript itself. The next step for the open-source platform is jQuery 3.0. In a recent blog post entitled “jQuery 3.0: The Next … continue reading
Happy Halloween, GitHub fans! Sadly there is nothing remotely spooky about this weeks trending open-source projects, but they’re awesome just the same. #1: Openage Openage is a volunteer project organized by SFT Technologies to create a free engine clone of the Age of Empires II game, primarily aimed at POSIX platforms such as GNU and Linux. According … continue reading
The rumors turned out to be true. Microsoft has officially entered the health-tracking wearable market, releasing the Microsoft Band smartwatch and Microsoft Health service. Available cross-platform on Android, iOS and Windows Phone, Microsoft Band and Health can track and provide insights into a user’s heart rate, steps, calorie burning and sleep patterns. Microsoft Health also works with … continue reading
Microsoft announces more Azure updates at TechEd Europe Little more than a week following its Azure press event, Microsoft introduced new services including Azure Batch, Azure Operational Insights and Azure Automation at theTechEd Europe conference in Barcelona, Spain. According to a blog post from Microsoft Azure product marketing director Vibhor Kapoor, Azure Batch delivers job … continue reading
Update: As of Google and Microsoft’s new partnership on Angular 2, AtScript will be combined with Microsoft’s TypeScript superset programming language. Google’s continuing quest to improve JavaScript took another step forward with the unveiling of AtScript, a new superset JavaScript runtime type system written into AngularJS 2.0. Rather than create another new programming language—Google has … continue reading
Microsoft has laid out its roadmap for TypeScript, charting the course of the programming language from versions 1.3 to 2.0. Since the 1.0 release of TypeScript—Microsoft’s superset JavaScript programming language—back in February, Microsoft has focused on performance improvements and growing the language’s open-source community. After an incremental release including a new, faster compiler, the TypeScript … continue reading
#1: Material Design Icons Developers and app designers have gone so crazy over Material Design, Google decided to open-source the icons itself. These official open-source icons featured in Google’s Material Design specification include SVG versions of all icons in both 24px and 48px flavors, SVG and CSS sprites of all icons, and separate versions of the icons targeted … continue reading
Progress Software has agreed to acquire application development tools provider Telerik for US$262.5 million. Progress Software has a wide portfolio of development, deployment, integration and management applications, such as the OpenEdge, Pacific and Modulus platforms. The addition of Telerik’s developer tool offerings—including the Kendo UI framework and UIs for Web and mobile development—augments the wider … continue reading
RazorFlow, a new HTML5 dashboard framework from JavaScript data visualization company FusionCharts, aims to give developers a way to build effective, cross-platform HTML5 dashboards quickly without manual workflows. The RazorFlow API simplifies responsive HTML5 dashboard creation by allowing developers to choose between a chart or key performance indicator, a vertical or horizontal layout and a … continue reading
Microsoft announced new features, services and partnerships for its Azure cloud platform at a press event today. The company unveiled a new Azure Marketplace of virtual machines, apps and services for customers to browse and purchase, and for ISVs and startups to help monetize their businesses. It also announced a partnership with Cloudera support for … continue reading
#1: PerfMap This front-end performance heat map from Mark Zeman is a bookmarklet to of resources loaded in the browser using the Resource Timing API. Once installed, the bookmarklet overlays a performance heatmap over the web page to indicate user experience with interactive timing when the mouse hovers over a particular spot. PerfMap is only available on … continue reading
Cloudera releases Cloudera Enterprise 5.2, Impala 2.0, Cloudera Director product and Cloudera Accelerator Program Cloudera used the Strata stage to unveil a slew of new products, programs and updates. The Apache Hadoop software provider released version 5.2 of Cloudera Enterprise, its data analytics management solution for Hadoop, with several security advancements including simple key management, … continue reading
