In late 2019, GitHub introduced GitHub Actions, which gave developers the ability to automate workflows straight from GitHub. Since then, the company has been working to continue expanding the capabilities of Actions, adding new features such as artifact and dependency caching, self-hosted runners, and an Actions API. This month, GitHub is expanding Actions even further. … continue reading
Microsoft’s .NET 5.0 Preview 3 contains new features and performance improvements. This includes code quality improvements in RyuJIT, System.Text.Json improvements such as added support for preserve references on JSON dotnet/runtime #655, and .NET SDK Support for .NET Framework Assemblies. Microsoft said it is still working on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release. … continue reading
Few tasks can make a developer groan more than the process of documenting their code. As important as documentation is, it’s a task that has always gotten set as a low priority for developers, which leads to problems down the line. Postman’s 2019 State of API survey found that over half of respondents felt that … continue reading
CircleCI’s matrix jobs enable developers to write simple configurations for complicated software and work in tandem with the company’s existing support for parameterized jobs. “This feature is powerful because it works with any combination of job parameters, generating human-readable names for each individual job. You aren’t restricted to a finite number of ways to do … continue reading
The Android development team has opened up the Android 11 Developer Preview 3 (DP3). This preview build can be accessed only on Pixel 2, 3, 3a, and 4 devices. The update with DP3 will be automatically downloaded for those currently using a Developer Preview build, or it can be downloaded manually. This preview includes a … continue reading
Coinciding with this week’s release of PyTorch 1.5, which was a major update to the framework, AWS and Facebook have come together to release an open-source model server for the framework, TorchServe. According to AWS, developers like the flexibility PyTorch provides for building and training models, but deploying and managing them in production is the … continue reading
Amazon released AppFlow to help developers gain meaningful insights from data that is now living in lots of different places. According to the company, SaaS application adoption is increasing rapidly, and it is becoming very complex for developers to access the data from these applications. “Developers spend huge amounts of time writing custom integrations so … continue reading
Web development solution provider Vercel has announced a $21 million Series A round of funding it will use to improve the front-end development experience for JavaScript developers. Vercel, which was previously known as ZEIT, was founded by the creators of the Next.js framework. The company changed its name to align with its new focus of … continue reading
The Uno Platform announced preview support for Visual Code. The platform is designed to enable the creation of single-source C# and XAML apps, which run natively on iOS and Android, and Web via WebAssembly. Key features include XAML Hot-Reload, cross platform controls, UWP code support, Xamarin Forms, support for SkiaSharp, and UI testing via Selenium. … continue reading
Following the latest release of the programming language Python, an updated version of the Python package PyTorch is now available. PyTorch is designed to provide Tensor computation and deep neural networks. PyTorch 1.5 features new and updated libraries as well as new API additions and improvements. A highlight of the release is that the C++ … continue reading
Microsoft is hoping to address what it is calling the “data divide” with the Open Data Campaign. The new initiative aims to help organizations across the industry realize the benefits of data. According to Microsoft, while there has been tremendous growth in data and AI, these technologies are concentrated in just a few companies. For … continue reading
The latest version of Tasktop Hub is now available. Tasktop Hub 20.2 is designed to make toolchain integration easier by enabling large-scale organizations to accelerate the flow of work and business value across their software portfolio. Key highlights include more control over operational processes using Conditional Field Flow, conflict resolution at the field-level, enhanced support … continue reading
The latest version of the JavaScript runtime Node.js. Node.js 14 will replace Node.js 13 on the current release line where it will remain the ‘Current’ release for the next 6 months until LTS support arrives in October 2020. Highlights of the new release include improved diagnostics, an upgrade of V8, an experimental Async Local Storage … continue reading
Interest in the Go programming language continues to rise, but some developers aren’t using it as much as they would like to. The team behind the Go programming language has released their annual Go developer survey, with data from 2019. According to the report, the reasons why developers can’t use Go more is because they … continue reading
