C++ creator proposes unified call syntax Programmer Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer and original implementer of the C++ programming language, has published an ISO proposal to add a unified call syntax to C++. The initial proposal explores the possibility of giving member functions preference over non-member functions by defining thex.f(y) and f(x,y) notations to be equivalent, thus eliminating … continue reading
Code.org’s crowdfunding campaign Code.org wants to teach 100 million students worldwide how to code. The organization’s launched a 60 day initiative yesterday to raise US$5 million. The money would go to training 100 million students and 10,000 new teachers computer science, and every dollar will be matched. Microsoft, Google, Salesforce.com, Omidyar Network, Quadrivium Foundation, Bill … continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO– Xamarin, the company with more than 750,000 mobile developers delivering mission-critical enterprise and consumer apps, today announced major expansions to their product lineup that radically improve how developers build, test and manage apps. At the company’s global developer conference, Xamarin Evolve 2014, the largest cross-platform mobile development event in the world, the company … continue reading
The GitHub Student Developer Pack GitHub has partnered with a host of commercial and open-source platforms to release the GitHub Student Developer Pack. The developer pack provides students with free access to developer tools. “There’s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive,” John Britton, education liaison … continue reading
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 8, 2014, Electric Cloud, the leader in enterprise Continuous Delivery, today announced it has publicly launched Ship.io to bring Continuous Delivery to native iOS and Android app development. This SaaS offering is based on technology acquired from CiSimple, an AnglePad-backed company and a pioneer in mobile Continuous Delivery. Now available as … continue reading
Realm for Android Less than three months after releasing Realm for iOS, the mobile database provider is releasing Realm for Android, maintaining the same simple API and modern design as the iOS version. “We consciously tried to release Android in an earlier state than what we shipped for iOS, so that we could benefit from … continue reading
In January 2012, three Twitter engineers were in charge of writing and maintaining the entire codebase for Android. New versions of the app were released every two to three months. Twitter’s mobile development needed to scale way up, and to do that the social networking company needed not only to restructure its development team, but … continue reading
When it comes to mobile testing, developers have to test their app on an wide array of devices and platforms. There are about 19,000 distinct Android devices (according to OpenSignal’s recent fragmentation report) and more than a dozen iOS devices, making it difficult for developers to ensure their app performs and behaves well across every … continue reading
Wolfram launches Tweet-a-Program Stephen Wolfram has announced a new Wolfram Language program, Tweet-a-Program, which allows users to compose a tweet-length Wolfram Language program. Once it’s composed and tweeted to @WolframTaP, the company’s Twitter bot will run the problem in the recently announced Wolfram Cloud and tweet back the result. “In the Wolfram Language, a little … continue reading
Citrix announced it has acquired Virtual, a cloud-based startup for Android and iOS emulation and virtualization on remote desktops. The Virtual platform, according to its website, claims to emulate any Android or iOS device on any platform with near-native accuracy. The platform can also be used for app and bug testing, and access is currently … continue reading
Android L’s material design is a new style of visual, motion and interactive design that can be applied to Android apps. But with this new functionality, developers have to start thinking about baseline grids, keylines and spacing markers. As a result, UI engineer Lucas Rocha, currently at Mozilla working on Firefox for Android, has created … continue reading
dtSearch Corp.’s enterprise and developer text retrieval product line instantly searches terabytes of text across a broad variety of online and offline data types. All dtSearch products embed dtSearch’s proprietary document filters, enabling searching of not only file directories, but also emails and nested attachments, online dynamic as well as static data, and other databases … continue reading
