The 2023 Call for Code, a global program that invites developers around the world to contribute to open-source technology projects that address social and humanitarian issues, has recently been announced by creator David Clark, founding partner IBM, charitable partner United Nations Human Rights, and program affiliate the Linux Foundation. This year’s Call for Code is … continue reading
Databricks, provider of a cloud-based data engineering tool for processing and transforming large amounts of data, today announced the Visual Studio Code extension for Databricks. According to the company, this new extension will allow developers to write their code locally utilizing the editing capabilities of VS Code, connect to Databricks clusters and run code remotely, … continue reading
SmartBear, provider of software development and visibility tools, announced a new tool that will help developers more easily discover visual bugs and defects so that they can deliver applications and websites with their intended look intact. VisualTest utilizes AI in its regression testing to discover these visual errors. It also provides visibility into development components across the … continue reading
The rise of data streaming has forced developers to either adapt and learn new skills or be left behind. The data industry evolves at supersonic speed, and it can be challenging for developers to constantly keep up. SD Times recently had a chance to speak with Michael Drogalis, the principal technologist at Confluent, a company … continue reading
Over the past decade or so, the public cloud has fundamentally reshaped virtually every aspect of enterprise operations. But, while plenty have benefited from this shift, perhaps none have enjoyed the convenience of cloud more than the enterprise “end user” — the software developers, data scientists, and other subject matter experts whose work has laid … continue reading
You may be familiar with the quote “software is eating the world,” but as of late it seems more like “ChatGPT is eating the world.” Ever since its public debut, it’s dominated front pages of the news, sparked many conversations about how AI will shape the future, and if you look at the trending page … continue reading
ToolJet is an open-source, low-code application development platform for building and deploying business applications. Users can use it to build complicated front ends without any experience in React, CSS, or event HTML. They can also drag and drop over 35 built-in UI components for more complicated frontends. With ToolJet, developers can also verify the current … continue reading
ConnectALL 2.11 is the latest release of the value stream management (VSM) company’s flagship VSM platform. ConnectALL is calling this release a “complete overhaul” of the platform, providing a more modern UI and stronger VSM capabilities. Logic Flow Adapters were added to the platform in this release. These allow users to incorporate business logic into … continue reading
Atlassian today fleshed out its Jira suite with a new product – Jira Product Discovery – and the availability of other tools designed to more fully bring together all of the roles that are part of software development creation and delivery. At its first DevOps-focused event – Unleash – today in Berlin, the company unveiled … continue reading
The Digital Governance Council and Data Collaboration Alliance have announced the public release of Zero-Copy Integration, which is a Canadian standard that provides a framework for meeting strict data protection regulations and dealing with the risks related to data silos and copy-based data integration. The Zero-Copy Integration framework establishes the following principles: data management via … continue reading
While it has been speculated for a few weeks that Microsoft had plans to integrate ChatGPT into its search engine Bing, the company has finally made it official. This comes shortly after the company had made a large multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Search rival Google also just announced its own … continue reading
The Android development team today announced the general availability of the first preview version of Android 14. With this preview, developers gain access to several new features, such as more ways to build applications and take advantage of the full Android ecosystem. This brings alterations to API behaviors so users can have a more consistent … continue reading
Over the last 5 years, galaxy-brained folks have had time, thanks in part to a pandemic, to dream big about Web 3 after catching some inspirational podcasts and YouTube gurus. Or maybe watching Gilfoyle pitch a “new internet” on the last season of “Silicon Valley.” What was so intriguing to so many about Web3 anyway? … continue reading
Oracle in January announced a change to its Java license that bases pricing on the number of employees in an organization, rather than on instances in use like they have in the past. “The new Java SE Universal Subscription was developed based on feedback from our customers with Java workloads running in increasingly diverse environments. … continue reading
