The coronavirus has impacted many industries, but perhaps none more so than the travel industry. With airline seat booking down from March through August, some 76% from 2019, it was imperative for the industry to make changes that would give travelers a sense of trust that flying was safe. American Airlines (AA) responded by giving … continue reading
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new tool that can help fix hang bugs, which occur when software gets stuck, but doesn’t crash. HangFix helps detect hang bugs, diagnose the problem, and apply a patch to correct the root cause of the issue. “Many of us have experience with hang bugs – … continue reading
The latest release of Android Studio includes new features that address common editing, debugging, and optimization use cases. A major theme for the 4.1 release is to help developers become more productive while using Android Jetpack libraries to help developers follow best practices and to write code faster, the team explained. Some highlights include a … continue reading
A coalition of software industry leaders today is releasing a BizOps Manifesto, a framework that aims to finally address the need for the business and IT sides of an enterprise to work toward common outcomes that drive the bottom line. In its announcement, the BizOps Coalition said a recent survey showed that more than three-quarters … continue reading
Akamai’s October 2020 release includes expanded microservice creation at the edge and the ability for developers to code dynamic content assembly at the edge. Also, EdgeWorkers resource consumption and performance reporting was added to the Akamai Control Center and the data is retrievable by API calls. “EdgeWorkers not only provides the visibility developers need to … continue reading
The horrors of the novel coronavirus cannot be understated. As of this writing, there are 31.5 million cases of COVID-19 around the world, and 970,673 have died — closing in on the grim milestone of a million lives lost. One million lives lost. This month, we’ve seen wildfires devastate California and the American Pacific Northwest, … continue reading
Remote working has become the new normal for many, especially those in the development world where work can easily be done in a remote setting. But continuous working from home does come with some downsides, such as burnout. In a webinar sponsored by Devtech Group, innovation consultant Nils Vesk explained 14 of the most common … continue reading
Microsoft released a set of 10 principles to promote fairness and innovation on Windows 10. The release follows the announcement of the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), which was formed late last month to counter Apple App store practices. “For software developers, app stores have become a critical gateway to some of the world’s most … continue reading
Serverless computing is a next-generation technology that enables agility, elasticity and cost-effectiveness when applied to appropriate use cases. It is redefining the way enterprises build, consume and integrate cloud-native applications. However, the term “serverless computing” is a misnomer: The technology eliminates the need for infrastructure provisioning and management, but certainly does not eliminate the need … continue reading
CData has announced Tableau Connectors, Excel updates and new drivers With the new Tableau Connectors, users can connect Tableau with real-time data from more than 200 popular SaaS applications, ERPs, CRMs, accounting tools and more. CData’s 2020 Excel Add-In update has enhanced performance and speed for bulk data processing and delivers an improved UI with … continue reading
This week’s highlighted open-source project is actually a collection of tools. Compliance company Anchore recently announced it would be launching a suite of open-source tools to help companies automated DevSecOps pipeline security and analysis. The first of those tools to be released are Syft and Grype. Syft analyzes container images and filesystems, then creates a … continue reading
Lighstep announced a new GitHub action called Lightstep Pre-Deploy Check, which is designed to bring observability data directly to GitHub to avoid problematic code deploys. The solution leverages publicly-available APIs from Lighstep to provide a deployment risk summary ahead of a code change going into a production environment. “Automatically confirming production systems and services are … continue reading
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has been fighting for software freedom for 35 years now. It all started on October 4, 1985 when Harold Abelson, Robert J. Chassell, Richard M. Stallman, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Leonard H. Tower, Jr. established the Free Software Foundation Inc. Their vision from the beginning has been to encourage the … continue reading
I started collecting my thoughts on this topic at the start of 2020, a time just a short while and a whole era ago. Matters of heated discussion back then made way for whole other concerns, but as you know firsthand – more and more of our daily lives is getting online, ensuring that the … continue reading
