Gamification as a concept in software development is nothing new. Developers have long been using it as a means of increasing user engagement in their applications. Gamification in apps traditionally involves implementing some game-like elements, such as leveling up, getting achievements, or competing on a leaderboard, that will encourage a user to stay in an … continue reading
Value stream integration provider Tasktop announced the limited release of Tasktop Viz at the DevOps Enterprise Summit this week in Las Vegas. Tasktop Viz was designed to measure the flow of business value in software delivery. It implements the Flow Framework and uses the Tasktop connector technology as a tool for extracting end-to-end data. According … continue reading
Tidelift announced an integration with Atlassian’s Bitbucket code collaboration platform so that development teams can ensure that the open source dependencies they rely on to build their applications are secure, well managed, and licensed in compliance with their organization’s policies. Tidelift also has made the Tidelift Subscription free trial available through the Atlassian Marketplace. It … continue reading
Low-code company Bpm’online has announced that it is rebranding to Creatio. It announced the name change in an unusual way. Bpm’online employees took to the sky to make the announcement. 160 employees, including the CEO, announced the name change in an elaborate skydiving performance. The company is holding a renaming celebration where attendees can view … continue reading
The DevOps community wants to get back to the human aspect of developing software. The DevOps Enterprise Summit is taking place in Las Vegas this week, and one of the dominating themes has been people, not process or technology. Andre Martin, vice president of PeopleDev at Google, spoke about how businesses can create “a culture … continue reading
The Linux Foundation has announced its intent to form a new project called Alvarium. Project Alvarium will be focused on building a Data Confidence Fabric (DCF). This will help facilitate trust and confidence in data across heterogeneous systems. According to the Linux Foundation, a DCF is a framework that inserts trust into a data’s path, … continue reading
The new version of Visio JavaScript APIs, which are used to extend Visio for the web and to build mashup scenarios is now available for public preview. The new version allows users to add custom HTML content on shapes and to show HTML content on various shape events. The new release also offers the ability … continue reading
New ways of doing work, such as shifting from a project mentality to a value-centric product mentality, spurs the need for new roles in software. That was the focus of a session here at the DevOps Enterprise Summit this morning presented by Dominica DeGrandis, the new principal flow advisor at Tasktop, who outlined the difference … continue reading
Google researchers announced that they have achieved quantum supremacy by using a quantum computer to solve a problem that would take an average computer an impractically long amount of time to solve. Their quantum computer correctly performed a computation in 200 seconds that would have taken the most powerful supercomputer thousands of years to accomplish, … continue reading
You’re working on a project that’s months late and millions over budget. Your developers move at a snail’s pace, being held up by unfilled requests server environments, authorizations to access needed data, and even to the codebase. You’re frustrated, your managers are mad and worried for their job security, and execs are jumping ship — … continue reading
Netflix has announced that it is open sourcing Polynote, which, as the name implies, is a polyglot notebook. Polynote provides Scala support, Apache Spark integration, as-you-type autocomplete, and multi-language interoperability with Scala, Python, and SQL. According to Netflix, Polynote will allow data scientists to integrate its JVM-based machine learning platform with Python’s ecosystem of machine … continue reading
Google is working to drive higher engagement on larger screens, such as for Google Pixelbook Go and foldable devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Fold. With Chrome OS’s upcoming M80 release, users will be able to deploy Android apps directly to their Chromebook. Google also enabled GPU support to reduce latency and to deliver a … continue reading
The open-source blogging CMS with a modern intuitive editor and built-in SEO features just reached version 3.0. Ghost 3.0 integrates publishing<>subscriptions, which allows anyone to build a recurring revenue subscription business. The tool is managed by the not-for-profit Ghost Foundation. The developers of Ghost explained they embrace the JAMstack movement, which prefers to generate a … continue reading
The Android team announced a number of new and improved releases at this year’s Android Dev Summit intended to foster “modern android development.” The announcements included optimizations for the Kotlin language, a Jetpack Compose developer preview, and the Android Studio 4.0 Canary IDE. “We call our recommendation ‘modern Android development.’ Opinionated and powerful, for fast, … continue reading
