RethinkDB has announced version 2.3 of its open-source database for the real-time Web. The latest release comes with new security features, performance enhancements, new ReQL features, and a beta release of its recently introduced Windows port. Highlights of RethinkDB 2.3 include built-in TLS support; the ability to create user accounts and assign permissions; a new … continue reading
Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to access the tools they need to build their mobile, cloud or desktop solutions, regardless of the language or framework. The company has announced the minimal code editor experience that gives developers the core elements of Visual Studio in just a couple of hundred megabytes. The code … continue reading
Netflix is known as a place to binge watch television, but behind the scenes, there’s much going on before everyone’s favorite shows can be streamed. There are many tools and techniques the company uses to go from source code to a deployed service that sends shows and movies to more than 75 million global Netflix … continue reading
Today, Coding Dojo, a coding boot camp, announced that it is opening new locations in Dallas, Washington and Chicago. Coding Dojo will double its number of existing campuses, which are currently located in Los Angeles, San Jose and Seattle. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be 1 million more computing jobs … continue reading
Automation is just like every other technology in that it takes effort to be successful. It’s another strategy that can be incorporated into the software testing life cycle, but issues come from testers figuring out how they can build it into a process and determining what solutions or tools are right for their company. Over … continue reading
With agile and DevOps becoming the new normal, mobile testing has become increasingly complex. The releases come at a rapid-fire pace, and the stakes for mistakes are high. Since the Internet of Things has moved forward, the complexity of devices has also increased. Now, smartphones need to communicate with appliances and televisions need to communicate … continue reading
Microsoft is partnering with automotive companies as a way to move its software onto vehicles. Today at the International CES 2016 in Las Vegas, automotive and infotainment companies like HARMAN, IAV, Nissan and Volvo announced that they will partner with Microsoft to bring cars into the mobile and cloud world, and to incorporate Microsoft software … continue reading
Boards are increasingly concerned about code. This is primarily because code plays an ever more important role in company performance. Great code enables companies to better engage customers, make smarter decisions, and disrupt markets—or at least keep pace with disruptive competitors—while avoiding security and compliance risks. So boards have to worry about it. Code is … continue reading
Red Hat today announced that it is acquiring AnsibleWorks, the company behind the infrastructure-provisioning software known as Ansible. The tool is a somewhat slimmed down take on the Chef and Puppet model. Ansible, rather than having a prescriptive language and framework for infrastructure provisioning, relies instead on logging into machines via SSH and running commands … continue reading
VersionOne wants to extend its agile life-cycle-management platform to include software delivery. To do so, the company has announced it is acquiring ClearCode Labs, a Continuous Delivery platform provider. “I have for the last year or so felt that strategically it was in our best interest to extend the software delivery life cycle to encompass … continue reading
Steve Yegge recently posted a piece where he took to task his own predictions from 2004. I thought it would be fun to take a gander at some of the predictions pundits have made about programming over the years, and see just how wrong or right they were. If you’ve spent any time at all … continue reading
There are a number of reasons why companies avoid automated UI testing for their mobile apps. Many are new to mobile development and are in a sort of Maslow’s mobile hierarchy of needs, in which perceived survival depends on just getting the app working, and things downstream in the workflow seem like luxuries. Even teams … continue reading
