Digia is giving the Qt cross-platform framework more room to roam. The longstanding GUI application framework, developed by Digia and the Qt Project since 2011, is moving to its own company under the Digia banner. Digia CTO and Qt chief maintainer Lars Knoll explained the reasoning behind the shift in a blog post laying out … continue reading
#1: Alamofire Alamofire is an HTTP networking library written in Swift. Think of it as AFNetworking, reimagined for the conventions of this new language but coexisting within the same codebase. Named after the Alamo fire flower, the library has features such as chainable request and response methods and JSON parameter encoding. We featured #2: Google … continue reading
The popular OpenSSL encryption scheme underlying much of the Web’s security protocols is finally turning a corner. With Heartbleed now well behind it, the open-source SSL/TLS security protocol released a project road map laying out its short- and long-term goals, and it has issued nine security fixes to the encryption scheme. In a Security Advisory, … continue reading
Microsoft has released the final version of Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 and Team Foundation Server Update 3, with a veritable laundry list of new features and added support. The release was announced in tandem with blog posts from Microsoft Developer Division corporate vice presidents S. Somasegar and Brian Harry. One of the biggest new … continue reading
It’s been six months since Satya Nadella’s ascent to the Microsoft throne, and the new CEO’s been busy. No one quite knew what they were getting in Nadella, a Microsoft insider whose deep technical expertise was established, but whose business mind and leadership capabilities were unproven. While Nadella hasn’t blown critics and Microsoft fanboys away … continue reading
#1: Last week’s awesome project, Awesome Awesomeness, is still the reigning GitHub champ. #2: FLEX FLEX, or Flipboard Explorer, “is a set of in-app debugging and exploration tools for iOS development,” says its GitHub page. Developed by Flipboard, “FLEX shows a toolbar that lives in a window above your application. From this toolbar, you can … continue reading
Amid the mishmash of augmented and virtual reality devices being strapped to people’s heads, a new development platform looks to transform your hands into a virtual keyboard, integrating gesture control and touch-based projection into AR applications. Augumenta, a Finland-based wearables startup, debuted an SDK and developer tools defining a new user interface for smartglass devices … continue reading
The bigger Big Data gets, the more need, it seems, developers have for complex event processing outside of Hadoop. In its 2014 Big Data & Advanced Analytics Survey, market research firm Evans Data found that only 16% of developers said Hadoop batch processing was satisfactory in all use cases. Seventy-one percent of the more than … continue reading
The Java language is moving forward from Java 8, and its future now lies in an experimental OpenJDK incubator called Project Valhalla. Oracle has been planning and proposing enhancements to Java and OpenJDK 9 for months, but Valhalla marks the first step toward long-term development. Oracle Java language architect Brian Goetz announced the language-VM co-development … continue reading
#1: Awesome Awesomeness Continuing the trend of Awesome projects making it into the Top 5, Awesome Awesomeness is an awesome list curated by Alexander Bayandin of other Awesome curated lists, from awesome programming languages to awesome algorithms, awesome Big Data, awesome HTML5, awesome machine learning and many other awesome things. Enough awesome for you? #2: … continue reading
Microsoft has a long history of parody videos, and its latest is quite possibly the nerdiest, most facepalm-worthy one yet, which is saying something. Microsoft’s OneNote team posted a parody on YouTube spoofing LMFAO’s “I’m Sexy and I Know It” with a music video about OneNote and the Surface Pro 3, called “Click it and … continue reading
Microsoft announced its fourth-quarter earnings last night, revealing an 18% revenue increase year-over-year to US$23.4 billion. The financial results were mixed but positive, with a decrease in overall profits along with the upped revenue. Microsoft benefitted from the continued and growing success of its Azure and Office 365 enterprise cloud services. In terms of devices, … continue reading
